Ahead of her upcoming Hulu show Only Murders in the Building, which co-stars the comedy duo Steve Martin and Martin Short – no big deal – Selena Gomez takes this month's Elle, looking typically stunning and opening up about what she's been up to during the pandemic.
The series, which was shot during the pandemic, was a sweet reprieve for the multi-hyphenate. She tells Elle, “I got to be in a space with so much wisdom. They became my uncles.” Jealous!
Selena + Chef, her other pandemic series and which sees her learning to cook alongside a remote chef, has also been fun – and a hit. It's all working out much more smoothly this time for Gomez, who last was a series regular on Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place, which catapulted her into a life with little privacy.
“For a while, I felt like an object,” she says. “It felt gross for a long time.” Soon after, she became more public about her struggles in hopes of dashing the rumour mill, sharing her lupus diagnosis, depression and anxiety issues.
She also opened up about being diagnosed bipolar in 2018, saying, “I felt a huge weight lifted off me when I found out. I could take a deep breath and go, ‘Okay, that explains so much.’ ”
Part of this healthier living has also included cutting down on social media.
“I’m like, ‘I’ve got to do something [more]. After I’m gone, I want people to remember me for my heart,’” she says, having turned all her social passwords over to her assistant. "I don’t have it on my phone, so there’s no temptation. I suddenly had to learn how to be with myself. That was annoying, because in the past, I could spend hours looking at other people’s lives. I would find myself down nearly two years in someone’s feed, and then I’d realize, ‘I don’t even know this person!’ Now I get information the proper way. When my friends have something to talk about, they call me and say, ‘Oh, I did this.’ They don’t say, ‘Wait, did you see my post?’ ... It was so nice. I felt like I was suddenly able to be so present.”
Now, a huge part of Gomez's mission is to give back, including with Selena + Chef, which contributes to nonprofits per episode, and her beauty brand's Rare Impact Fund, which aims to raise $100 million over the next 10 years to improve access to mental health services. Which has also helped her discover one key thing: “I find happiness when I’m with people I love.”
After the many struggles of the past decade, she tells Elle, “My lupus, my kidney transplant, chemotherapy, having a mental illness, going through very public heartbreaks — these were all things that honestly should have taken me down. Every time I went through something, I was like, ‘What else? What else am I going to have to deal with?’ ... There could have been a time when I wasn’t strong enough, and would have done something to hurt myself.”
She told herself, "‘You’re going to help people.’" Gomez explained, "That’s really what kept me going."
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