In a new interview this week, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson denied rumors that she was feuding with Princess Diana before the royal’s untimely death in 1997. Now, however, a previous interview has surfaced in which Sarah did indeed admit that she and Diana were not speaking at the time of her death.

“We promised each other we would always be together — there was never any daylight between us,” Sarah People Magazine this week. “But everybody wanted (to see a feud) because we were so strong together. People want to break something so strong.”

However, in a 2007 Harpers Bazaar interview, Sarah admitted that Diana had refused to speak to her in the year before her death.

“The saddest thing, at the end, (was that) we hadn’t spoken for a year, though I never knew the reason …” Sarah said at the time. “I tried, wrote letters, thinking whatever happened didn’t matter, let’s sort it out. And I knew she’d come back. In fact, the day before she died she rang a friend of mine and said, ‘Where’s that Red? I want to talk to her.’”

Some belief that the feud stemmed back to the 1996 release of Sarah’s memoir “My Story,” which included an embarrassing detail about her former sister-in-law. Specifically, Sarah had claimed in the book that Diana had gifted her some old shoes, “and less happily, her plantar warts.”

Sarah was reportedly devastated by the fallout, since she and Diana had been close since they were teenagers. Page Six reported that Diana even encouraged Andrew’s then-budding relationship with Sarah by inviting the couple to stay at her and Prince Charles’ country house called Highgrove so that they could get to know each other more before going public with their relationship. After Sarah and Diana split from their respective husbands, they would often vacation together with their children.

Sarah was also devastated when she was not invited to Prince William’s wedding in 2011.

“I wanted to be there with my girls … to be getting them dressed and to go as a family,” she confessed to Oprah Winfrey. “It was so hard, because the last bride up that aisle [at Westminster Abby] was me.”

Sarah was later “grateful” and “honored” to be invited to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding in 2018.