She's not said one word to me, not spoken to me, not said hi, not looked my way, not been in the same room with me since I played her in Australia. And that should tell everyone something, how she went from saying all these nice things about me to unfollowing me on Twitter. [Her mother tries to interrupt.]
Like, seriously! People should know. They think she's so friendly and she's so this and she's so that -- no, that's not reality! You don't unfollow someone on Twitter, delete them off of BlackBerry Messenger. I mean, what for? Why?
After her loss at the Australian Open, Williams tweeted "I made you," in apparent reference to Stephens, which Stephens took as an obvious dig at her.
Stephens, whom Cogan called the "recently anointed future of American tennis," continued to dispute Williams' public image as a mentor to her.
For the first 16 years of my life, she said one word to me and was never involved in my tennis whatsoever. I really don’t think it’s that big of a deal that she’s not involved now. If you mentor someone, that means you speak to them, that means you help them, that means you know about their life, that means you care about them. Are any of those things true at this moment? No.