Are we living in a Selena assassination? The promotional blitz surrounding Selena Gomez's new Apple TV+ documentary not only gives fans an autobiographical look into her life, but also comes with a new single, a lyric video, a limited-run SiriusXM radio show, and plenty of Gomez tidbits to keep her fans saturated.
“This is probably the most you’ll hear from me for a while,” he told Rolling Stone in an interview published Thursday. “I want this out in the open, but I also want this behind me. Every once in a while, it’s important to just disappear.”
Just ahead of the Friday release of her documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” Gomez walked the AFI Fest red carpet to promote the film on Wednesday and on Thursday released the eponymous song, which appears briefly in the project’s latest trailer. The similar ballad to a lullaby was inspired by her journals from her later years and offers an inside look at her mental and physical health struggles, including her history of bipolar disorder, psychosis, suicidal thoughts, and numerous health issues that have been chronicled in the media.
“'My Mind & Me' is a little sad, but it's also a really nice way to put a button on the documentary part of life, and then it'll be fun stories about me living my life, going on dates, and having conversations with myself,” Gomez told Rolling Stone. “I feel like it's going to be an album that's like, 'Oh, she's not in that place anymore; she's actually just living life.'”
The song plays throughout the documentary and is part of a new album in which he told Vulture which has been in the works “for years,” and Rolling Stone reported that she’s written 24 songs for it. She said she could start recording the album by the end of the year.
“I want to be able to grow through my music,” she told Vulture. “I’m the person who’s terrified of what’s going to happen once it comes out, so I want it to be really well done and representative of where I’m at. There’s a ton of fun stuff I’m eager to leak, if I’m being honest. I won’t. But I’m really excited. It’ll be fun and refreshing, I think.”
As for the documentary, the Emmy-nominated “Only Murders in the Building” star told Rolling Stone that she gave “Madonna: Truth or Dare” director Alek Keshishian full access during the six-year shoot, and that the final product was so raw she almost couldn’t let go.
"I almost wasn't going to put this out there. Honestly, a few weeks ago, I wasn't sure I could do it," she told the magazine.
The film also shows the artist entering a treatment center, one of four she has been to in her 30 years of life.
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Powerful actress, producer, and music artist Selena Gomez will release her debut Spanish-language collection, 'Revelación,' on March 12.
Also on Thursday, the former child star and SiriusXM announced the launch of Selena Gomez Radio, a limited-run channel hosted and curated by the artist. It launches Friday on SiriusXM Channel 14 and will run through November 10 and on the SiriusXM app until December 2.
In a press release on the matter, the star of “Selena + Chef” shared more about how his documentary came about. “My Mind & Me” began as a clever concert documentary of his ill-fated Revival Tour of 2016, which was diverted to a treatment center, and then turned into something completely different.
“We initially thought we were going to make a video of the concert tour, and during the tour, I had to cancel it because I was going through a lot personally. So we decided to stop. Then I went through a phase where I just needed to be alone, and then the [philanthropic] trip came about. to Kenya in 2019 “And we decided we wanted to record that journey,” he said. “So it wasn’t really going to be a documentary until the end, when we filmed all the stuff and where I am now and going home and visiting my house and where I came from, I can say it was going to be something bigger than just a piece of puff pastry.”
The “Wizards of Waverly Place” alum often describes herself as “authentic” and “self-deprecating,” traits that at one point made her the most followed person on Instagram, and brings that energy to the new documentary, which notably shows him at his lowest points, including lashing out at his friends and struggling to get out of bed.
“You know, I didn’t want people to think, ‘I’m cool and everything’s great.’ When I know I’ve had real moments and really scary things happen, I really wanted to be honest with people,” he said in the statement. “But I don’t want it to be about me. I want it to be about the conversation about mental health and the ways we can change the conversation. I feel like a human sacrifice. I’m like throwing my personal life into it. Hopefully, this conversation will be bigger and transcend it.”
Gomez, whose cosmetics brand Rare Beauty donates profits to mental health initiatives, also said she considers her friend Taylor Swift her most influential artist and that she truly misses her fans.
“One thing I’d like to say to my fans is that I really miss them. Before the pandemic, I felt so connected to everyone, and you know, since it’s been a bit of a journey adjusting to what life is like now, it makes me really emotional because it’s so scarce,” he said. “I don’t go out much. There are new rules, and then when I run into a fan, it really makes my day, and I miss it. Connection is the main reason I do what I do.” So I miss touring, and meeting and greeting, and even just having a small conversation with someone makes my day.”
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On World Mental Health Day today, Apple Original Films unveiled the trailer for the highly anticipated documentary “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me,” directed and produced by Alek Keshishian (“Madonna: Truth or Dare”).
The multi-hyphenate also shared with Rolling Stone that her mental and physical health struggles remain a daily occurrence. Her 2017 kidney transplant won't fix things forever, and her bipolar disorder medication makes it unlikely she'll be able to have children of her own: "That's a big, big, and present thing in my life," she said. (But, she added, she's confident that "no matter how I have to have them, I will.")
Gomez also addressed the ongoing uproar surrounding influencer Hailey Bieber's podcast interview that shot down speculation that she hooked up with now-husband Justin Bieber while the singer and Gomez were still dating.
Without naming Bieber, she told Rolling Stone that “someone made a comment and it brought me in, and then for two days I felt bad about myself,” sharing how something like that would have affected her more previously. A day later, Gomez appeared to address Bieber’s “Call Her Daddy” interview on TikTok Live: “I thought, I'm just going to say, 'Everyone be nice to each other. Everyone just focus on what's going on in the real world.'”
Then a few weeks later, she and Hailey Bieber made headlines again for posing together in a photo of a “plot twist” at the Academy Museum Gala in mid-October. (When the Vulture reporter asked Gomez about the photos, she said, “Yeah, it’s not a big deal. It’s not even a thing.”)
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