I'm not going to lecture you about idol interviews. But you should know if you have been following red velvet for a long time that they have always hidden their relationship and contradict each other a lot in interviews, you can easily find red velvet interviews where they will tell you that they are friends with this group or this idol , then in another they will say that they have no friends in the industry. it's always very hard to know.
I know we've seen videos of the two bands together at awards shows or pictures of Irene having a meal with jennie...but does that mean they're still friends or still in touch ? idk
Yeah, they had interactions like that one in LA in 2019:
And then months later you have something like this: