No, Francia Raisa wasn’t pressured to donate her kidney to Selena Gomez — one thing the actress felt the necessity to clear up within the Aug. 1 episode of Josh Peck’s Good Guys podcast.
“By no means in my life did I image this,” Raisa started on the present, concerning the hypothesis that she and Gomez are not buddies, or that the How I Met Your Father star was one way or the other pressured to surrender her kidney to the pop musician in 2017. “I do know she and I each went public with our scenario years in the past … press acquired ahold of the story and we wished to inform it.”
“I simply felt it in my coronary heart, and I knew, I knew I used to be a match,” she continued, reflecting on the organ donation course of. “Nobody pressured me to do something. It got here out of the real kindness of my coronary heart.”
Raisa donated her kidney to Gomez six years in the past after the Uncommon Magnificence founder suffered organ injury brought on by Lupus. Nonetheless, the pair of buddies appeared to float aside within the years that adopted.
Issues got here to a head final yr when Raisa didn’t seem to take too kindly to a remark Gomez made in an interview with Rolling Stone, throughout which the singer-actress stated Taylor Swift was nearly her “solely good friend within the trade.”
“Fascinating,” Raisa commented on a publish sharing the quote, to which Gomez replied, “Sorry I didn’t point out each individual I do know.”
Since then, Raisa has confronted an onslaught of hate feedback from Gomez’s followers, not in contrast to the bullying Hailey Bieber says she confronted earlier this yr relating to her marriage to the “Lose You to Love Me” singer’s ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. Gomez jumped on Instagram Tales in March to discourage followers from bombarding Hailey with negativity. And, simply this week, Gomez appeared to squash feud rumors with Raisa by publicly wishing her glad birthday on Instagram, posting a number of pictures of their friendship by way of the years.
Nonetheless, Raisa says she doesn’t wish to learn her social media feedback due to how extreme the negativity is. “I can’t learn the feedback as a result of I don’t do properly with that,” she informed Peck. “I actually don’t. Persons are so imply, they usually hit you want, proper there. Somebody stated, ‘Oh, you’re simply on the lookout for consideration as a result of your profession is a flop.’ And I’m like, ‘Is it a flop?’ However guys, there’s no beef.”
Watch Francia’s Good Guys interview above.
