Selena Gomez, who underwent a kidney transplant in 2017, talks again about how much how i met your father the actress Francia Raisa having donated a kidney has meant.
“I will never, never, never be more indebted to one person than to France,” Gomez said on Friday’s episode of Dear…an Apple TV+ series depicting “game-changing icons” including activist Malala Yousafzai and the late Fashion editor André Leon Talley. “The thought of someone even hesitating to donate was incredibly daunting.”
He Only murders in the building The star recalled that at one point her “best friend” said she would get tested to see if she was a potential match, and it seemed the next, actually three days later, they were given the medical green light.
“It was one of those moments where I felt watched,” said Gomez, who needed the transplant as a result of her fight with lupus. “I know I was so, so, so lucky. I understand that doesn’t happen to a lot of people and I know the outcome of some of those situations and how serious they are, so I don’t take it lightly. It happened to me like that.”
Gomez, who has also been open about her mental health, documented the date of her transplant with a tattoo that matches one belonging to Raisa.
Although it’s unclear when the episode was filmed, it aired approximately four months after speculation that the two were on bad terms. Gomez said in a November 2022 interview with Rolling Stone that Taylor Swift was “my only friend in the industry really,” and Raisa reportedly commented “interesting” on an Instagram post about the quote, to which Gomez later responded: “Sorry I didn’t mention all the girls.” people I know.”
Years earlier, the women had been rumored to disagree with some of Gomez’s “unhealthy choices,” and then had become close again. (Raisa told Yahoo Life in July that she had to adjust her own diet after the operation.)
But there shouldn’t be any question about where Gomez is now.
“I think it had to happen the way it did for me to get to where I am,” Gomez said of the transplant on the show. “I was meant to go through that to do something for others.”
