Selena Gomez: My Mind And Me Takeaways - BuzzFeed

Content warning: This nonfiction mentions slump and termination ideation.

Selena Gomez's caller documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me, premiered past week connected Apple TV+. The movie takes america done a six-year span successful her career, wherever she deals with immense fame and however it negatively affected her intelligence health, which yet leads to her bipolar upset diagnosis.

Here are 19 things she revealed successful the doc:

1. At the opening of the doc, which starts successful 2016, Selena shares that John Janik, CEO and Chairman of Interscope Records, had called her earlier that time to speech astir a opus with her then-boyfriend Justin Bieber. She speaks astir however hard it is being overshadowed by her narration and portion successful tears she says, “When americium I conscionable gonna beryllium bully capable by myself?”

2. Throughout the doc, she besides speaks astir her fearfulness of coming disconnected arsenic excessively "young," and that she doesn't privation her Disney past to specify her arsenic an adult.

3. Before going onstage, Selena would person to cheque her humor unit due to the fact that if it was excessively precocious she could person a stroke, owed to her lupus.

4. Theresa Mingus, Selena's adjacent person and erstwhile assistant, shared that during the Revival circuit Selena approached her saying “I don’t privation to beryllium live close now," which led to the cancellation of her remaining shows.

5. In 2018, Selena experienced a "psychotic break" and was “despondent and emotional” owed to a debased achromatic humor compartment number from complications of her lupus. Her adjacent person Raquelle Stevens explained that adjacent Selena couldn't rather explicate what was going on.

6. Selena's ma revealed that she lone recovered retired astir the "nervous breakdown" by a telephone from TMZ.

7. Selena was admitted to a intelligence wellness hospital, and during her clip there, her friends and household shared that Selena was astir unrecognizable.

8. Selena shared that she's learned much and much astir her bipolar diagnosis due to the fact that she was acrophobic of losing herself and not being capable to "come back."

9. During a travel backmost to her mediate school, Selena mentions having crushes connected boys who ne'er liked her back. Her relative besides mentions that Selena was an "outcast" and lone had a fewer friends.

10. When she was younger, Selena had a immense crush connected Cole Sprouse and would constitute his sanction each implicit her walls.

11. Selena remembers her intelligence wellness got "worse" aft her fame grew and she started touring. She besides said she felt "vain" and has present tried to prioritize "human connection" due to the fact that it makes her happy.

12. Ultimately, it was Selena's determination to beryllium honorable astir her bipolar diagnosis. Her squad was disquieted that the property would warp the narrative.

13. After speaking astir her diagnosis astatine the McLean Psychiatric Hospital Annual Dinner, Selena went location and texted Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter saying, "I deliberation I'm acceptable to conscionable accidental I'm sad." They went connected to constitute "Lose You To Love Me" successful 45 minutes.

14. One of Selena's biggest goals successful beingness is to make a measure wherever it is required to person therapy classes successful American schools.

15. In aboriginal 2020, Selena besides planned to enactment with We Charity connected creating a intelligence wellness curriculum. Unfortunately, the program fell done erstwhile the news came to airy that the foundation had antecedently paid Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to be events.

16. In 2020, she created the Rare Impact Fund and raised $100 cardinal to supply escaped intelligence wellness resources for young people. And successful 2022, the Rare Impact Fund hosted a Youth Action Forum successful coordination with the White House wherever she was capable to conscionable with President Biden astir a intelligence wellness program successful schools.

17. She shared that she hates doing property and became frustrated aft a reporter didn't listen to thing she said. She went connected to explicate that the infinitesimal triggered her due to the fact that it made her "feel similar Disney" aft spending "years of [her] beingness to not beryllium that."

18. During the pandemic, Selena's lupus symptoms got worse aft she hadn't felt the aforesaid benignant of symptom successful years. After testing, her doc diagnosed her with a rheumatoid factor, truthful her symptom was being caused by a lupus myositis rheumatoid overlap.

19. Finally, she shared that her slump stems from her fame and beingness arsenic a kid star. She besides said that she wishes she wasn't famous, but yet she hopes she tin usage her presumption "for good."