Selena Gomez has opened up about her mental health struggles and revealed she contemplated taking her own life on countless occasions.
The 30-year-old singer, actress, and producer has spoken out about her battle with psychosis and her bipolar disorder diagnosis in a bombshell interview with Rolling Stone.
The interview comes as the beloved media personality braces for the release of her ‘My Mind and Me’ documentary which will be featured on Apple TV+.
“I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there,” Gomez told the magazine as she revealed she thought about taking her own life several times throughout the years.
“I’m going to be very open with everybody about this: I’ve been to four treatment centers.
“I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad.”
As the ‘Lose You To Love Me’ hitmaker explained, she never really understood what led her to emotional highs and lows or why she couldn’t sleep or eat for days at a time.
“It would start with depression, then it would go into isolation,” she added.
“Then it just was me not being able to move from my bed. I didn’t want anyone to talk to me. My friends would bring me food because they love me, but none of us knew what it was. Sometimes it was weeks I’d be in bed, to where even walking downstairs would get me out of breath.”
While she’s not sure what might have caused a decline in her mental health, Selena says unachieved goals could be one of the main reasons.
“I grew up thinking I would be married at 25. It wrecked me that I was nowhere near that — couldn’t be farther from it. It was so stupid, but I really thought my world was over,” she continued.
“I never fit in with a cool group of girls that were celebrities. My only friend in the industry really is Taylor [Swift], so I remember feeling like I didn’t belong. I felt the presence of everyone around me living full lives.
“I just didn’t like who I was, because I didn’t know who I was.”
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