“She’s my best friend,” Selena Gomez said of her kidney donor Francia Raisa. In the meantime, Raisa can no longer air or see the singer. Gomez would drink too much and therefore deal too laconically with her health and her donor kidney. For Raisa, that behavior is the straw that breaks the camel of their already shaky friendship.
“Francia saved my life,” says thirty-year-old Gomez in 2017. The singer and actress, known for the series Only Murders in the Building, has just had a kidney transplant. The singer has been struggling with kidney problems for a long time as a result of the autoimmune disease lupus.
Fortunately, her friend Francia Raisa (now 34) wants to get tested to see if she is a suitable donor match for Gomez. The two met in 2007 at a Disney and ABC event. The actresses both play in TV series. After that time they see each other a few more times in ‘the little world’.
“At one point I get a call from Selena. ‘I don’t have any friends,’ she said. ‘So why don’t we even meet?’ Since then we have been inseparable,” Raisa said W Magazine.
The ultimate gift
Ten years later, just before Gomez’s health problems could prove fatal, the friends decide to move in together. When the singer tells Raisa that she urgently needs a new kidney and that the waiting list is very long, Raisa quickly has herself tested. And that leads to positive news.
“Francia gave me the ultimate gift by giving me her kidney,” says Gomez. “I know this can end badly too, so I’ve been very lucky. I’m so grateful. I love you, little sister.” “I wear the scars I left from the operation with pride,” adds Raisa.
Another lasting memory of their surgery is a tattoo: both actresses leave June 19, 2017the date of the surgery, tattooed on their arm.
Gomez mentions Taylor Swift, but not Raisa
So everything seems completely cake and egg between the two. But Gomez’s fans frown when Raisa is the major absentee in the documentary that will be made about the singer at the end of 2022. Several friends of Gomez speak in the documentary – except for Raisa.
And when Gomez says in an interview to promote her documentary that “Taylor Swift is her only friend in the world”, Raisa frowns again. “Interesting,” she responds on Instagram. As soon as her reaction is noticed, she deletes her post, but observant Instagrammers see that Raisa no longer follows Gomez. Gomez denies that anything is going on: “Sorry, I’m not naming everyone I know,” she responds indignantly on TikTok.
Gomez takes the criticism of her followers to heart, because in a documentary series that will appear in early 2023, she says that she is “indebted to no one more than Francia”. Although it is also possible that the fragment was recorded some time ago.
Online harassment
The American tabloid press still smells trouble and tries to get Raisa to find out why she no longer follows Gomez. The actress only says that she is receiving a lot of online hate from Gomez’s fans. They still bombard Raisa with bullying messages, because Gomez did not recognize her as a friend before.
This week the reason for their friendship break comes to light. Renán Almendárez Coello, Raisa’s father, says his daughter found out that Gomez was drinking alcohol. Since then, their relationship has been clouded. “Francia told Selena she didn’t donate a kidney so she could drink,” Coello said.
According to health guidelines, a person with a donor kidney is allowed a maximum of one alcoholic drink per day. It is not known whether the singer also regularly exceeds that – but she has certainly crossed the boundaries within her friendship with Raisa. Spokespersons for both actresses have not yet commented on the story.
2023-05-14 03:07:07
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