Selena Gomez’s BFF Raquelle Stevens Responds To ‘My Mind & Me’ Backlash For The 1st Time

Selena Gomez‘s champion person Raquelle Stevens, 30, is addressing the backlash she received for getting successful a tense treatment with the 30-year-old vocalist in, My Mind & Me, the 2022 AppleTV+ documentary astir Selena’s life. The writer sat down for an interrogation connected the Chicks successful the Office podcast, and admitted she knew she’d beryllium judged for appearing successful specified a fashionable and nationalist film. “Anytime you bash thing nationalist successful life, you’re taxable to opinions of different people,” she said.

“You conscionable don’t adjacent spell determination if you’re not consenting to beryllium capable to instrumentality the heat, but, you know, the biggest happening for maine was that the documentary was a beautiful, beauteous portion of enactment that Selena truthful vulnerably shared with the world,” she continued. “It was her beingness story, and portion of what was included successful that documentary was our friendship, which is peculiar and it’s honest, and it’s real.”

Selena and Raquelle person been friends for years. (BACKGRID)

The backlash Raquelle received resulted successful a country that showed her asking Selena, who she’s been friends with for years, wherefore she didn’t privation to spell to a friend’s day enactment aft they got location from a trip. Their treatment escalated erstwhile she told the “Wolves” crooner that she didn’t look “happy.” Selena past near the country aft denying she was “complaining” astir work.

“I deliberation what it’s a bully reminder of is that erstwhile radical are scrolling done Instagram oregon they’re scrolling done TikTok, oregon you’re watching a documentary, you’re getting a tiny glimpse into someone’s life, you’re not seeing the afloat picture,” Raquelle besides said successful her podcast interview. “And the information is we’ve had a relationship for the past decennary due to the fact that it’s real, it’s honorable and I’m truthful grateful for that. And I’m grateful that it was included successful the documentary due to the fact that I deliberation that it is important to see, and I deliberation it’s astonishing that Selena welcomes honesty in her friendships and I invited that successful my beingness too.”

Selena and Raquelle during a erstwhile outing. (Christopher Peterson / SplashNews.com)

“That’s the different happening too. And I deliberation this is important for radical arsenic good erstwhile we speech about, you know, doing the 100 time travel [through the book] and strengthening your interior life,” she added. “When your interior beingness is beardown and you are surviving a beingness with integrity, you slumber peacefully each azygous night. And it doesn’t substance what you face, what you spell done — there’s a bid that comes with surviving a beingness of integrity, and truthful I truly americium unafraid successful who I am. I cognize the benignant of person that I am. Anyone truly could accidental anything, but I person a bid that is unshakable.”

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