On Wednesday (July 26), Selena Gomez shared a candy birthday message for her longtime buddy Francia Raisa, eight months after the 2 had a public falling-out.
“Happiest of birthdays to this particular human being,” Gomez wrote alongside three pictures of the pair in happier occasions. “Irrespective of the place life takes us, I really like you.”
Along with being shut pals, Raisa — who turned 35 on Wednesday — additionally donated a kidney to Gomez again in 2017 after the singer/actress suffered lupus-related organ harm. However their tight bond was examined late final 12 months when Raisa — an actress on How I Met Your Father, Grown-ish and The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager — took situation with a remark Gomez made about one other high-profile buddy, Taylor Swift.
In a Rolling Stone cowl story launched in November, Gomez opened up about feeling like she “by no means slot in with a cool group of ladies that have been celebrities,” including, “My solely buddy within the business actually is Taylor, so I bear in mind feeling like I didn’t belong.”
“Attention-grabbing,” Raisa replied below an Instagram publish resharing Gomez’s quote, in a now-deleted remark.
On a TikTok video summarizing the drama — which famous that Raisa was now not following Gomez on Instagram — the Solely Murders within the Constructing star commented, “Sorry I didn’t point out each individual I do know.”
In Could, Raisa opened as much as TMZ in regards to the on-line bullying she’s confronted since her back-and-forth with Gomez, telling a cameraman, “The one factor I’m going to say is by no means, form or type does anybody condone bullying, particularly Selena. She actually has a complete nonprofit devoted to psychological well being [Rare Impact Fund], and I imagine Uncommon Magnificence even simply had an occasion for psychological well being. So the truth that I’m now being bullied as I’m, it’s messing with me mentally.”
As of press time, Raisa hadn’t but acknowledged Gomez’s birthday publish, however she appeared busy celebrating her large day in a poolside cabana, as evidenced on her Instagram. “If I’m not in a bikini on my birthday then it’s not my birthday,” she captioned three pics of herself in an orange string bikini and white eyelet coverup.
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