Basketball Wives’ Evelyn Lozada Calls Off Engagement to Queens Court Finalist Lavon Lewis

Evelyn Lozada and her Queen’s Court finalist, Lavon Lewis, broke off their engagement.

The Basketball women star, 47, revealed the pair were no longer together after getting engaged in the finale of the first season of the Peacock reality series, which aired in March.

“Things went so fast. Six months later we were engaged and I felt a little disconnected,” she said Us Weekly. “And the distance that he lives in Atlanta, that’s another thing that was really, really difficult.”

She continued, “He has a son who is, I believe, a freshman in high school or going to high school. There were a lot of moving parts and it just started getting difficult and I was like, ‘I don’t want to continue this for anything in the world.'”

Evelyn Lozada and Lavon Lewis from ‘Queens Court’. Courtesy of Ziv Sade/Peacock ‘Basketball Wives’ Alum Evelyn Lozada is engaged to her ‘Queens Court’ finalist Lavon Lewis

The reality star noted that if a relationship “doesn’t feel 100 percent, it just doesn’t feel 100 percent.” In her situation, she explained that she and Lewis are “from two different places. I’m from the Bronx, New York. He’s from Alabama. So, there was a little break there as well.”

Lozada admitted that he has limited time with the contestants Queen’s Court also played a role in the couple’s split, explaining: “Everything is moving fast. You ask 1,000,001 questions while dating these different guys on the show. And we tried to spend as much time as possible. He would travel here to LA at least once a month.”

She added that she felt “anxiety” while planning her wedding due to her brief marriage to NFL player Chad “OchoCin” Johnson in 2012.

“When I was married before, I was newlywed and divorced at the same time. I got divorced 42 days later. So, I didn’t know that I would have anxiety about getting married again,” she said.

“I feel like it’s deeply ingrained. I feel like I’m definitely connected to that incident, that marriage, that I was in therapy for. But now, it’s like I’m digging this back, the whole wedding,” she added. “And that was difficult. It was a difficult time for me. I got married to [the] July 4th, and by August I had already filed for divorce.”

Evelyn Lozada.

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The VH1 star said the couple are leaving the relationship on good terms, saying, “I’m just happy we can just be mature and friends.”

“I hope he finds an amazing wife. I will be at his wedding. He is a great person,” she added. “I’m just happy that he’s not bitter or that we’re not in a negative space. I feel like all breakups don’t have to end that way.”

Lozada revealed that the split will take place in the new season Basketball women after returning to the show after a two-year hiatus. She admitted that she “cried with Shaunie [O’Neal] at her event because that was the beginning of the end of my relationship with him.”

Lozada and Lewis got engaged in the finale of the first season of Peacocks Queens Court, in which Jeremy “JR” Robinson also popped the question to Tamar Braxton. The couple also confirmed their split earlier this month.

Lozada wasn’t expecting a proposal, though she and Lewis have discussed getting married in the past, previously telling PEOPLE, “I didn’t know he was going to propose that day.”

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“I didn’t know what I was getting myself into,” she said. “He was very manipulative and, honestly, I was a little irritated because I’m such an alpha female and I’m like, why do I have to pack? Why do I have to do this? It was really, really hard for me to just let go and let him do his thing. ”

Lewis also called Lozada “the most amazing woman I’ve ever met” — and he didn’t even believe he’d find love on the show.

“Before the show started, I told my friends that I didn’t believe in the process,” he told PEOPLE. “I came to the show thinking, ‘They called me, this is a new adventure. It’s going to be fun. I’m a pretty private, introverted person, but why not do something new? Can’t you find love in this kind of process? That’s impossible?’ ”

“I would challenge people to think outside the box, have faith and push themselves,” he added. “I didn’t think I’d go in and out of it with a woman. But look what happens when you open up and challenge yourself and step up.”

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