Why is Selena Gomez ‘triggered’ by her Disney past? She says …
Who says she can’t let go? Selena Gomez no longer feels constrained by her former Disney star label – but it wasn’t always easy to get there.
“I feel absolutely free from it,” said 30-year-old Gomez Vanity purse in an interview published on Wednesday, February 15. “Sometimes I get triggered. It’s not that I’m ashamed of my past, it’s just that I’ve worked so hard to find my own way. I don’t want to be who I was. I want to be who I am.”
The Only kills in the building actress – who rose to fame starring as rebellious Alex Russo in Disney’s Wizard of Waverly Place from 2007 to 2012 – told that she was in no way a “feral child” in her teens, but that there were still rules set by the network.
“I had to make sure I didn’t say ‘What the hell?’ to anyone,” she explained to the outlet, adding that she also pushed herself to “be the best role model I could be.”
Gomez has often gotten candid about the struggles she faced while being a child star, saying on the TCA Summer 2021 Tour that she “signed my life to Disney at a very young age and I didn’t know what I was doing. “
Now, the singer of “Lose You to Love Me” is all about authenticity. Gomez talked about the honesty she tried to give to the world during her Apple TV+ documentary. Selena Gomez: My mind and Me. “Now I think being the best role model is being honest, even with the ugly and complicated parts of yourself,” she explained in the film.
“Now I don’t feel like I’m lying to people,” Gomez continued. “It’s not that I lied… I was afraid of what people would think or that people wouldn’t hire me. Now I don’t think that way. I understand that if it doesn’t feel right to me, I need to step back and evaluate. Does this friendship give me anything? Is this project really a good project?”
My mind and mewhich premiered in November 2022, wrote the Ramona and Beezus star’s physical and mental journey between 2016 and 2020. Gomez was diagnosed with lupus in 2015 and revealed her bipolar disorder in 2020 – something that she says drove her “totally crazy”.
“It was like, ‘Hey you’re not a bad person, you’re not a rude person, you’re not this. But you’re going to have to deal with this,’ she explains in the documentary. ‘I know it’s a lot, but this is the reality.’ And I found out I was in a relationship with bipolar and myself – it will be there. I just make it my friend to know. I think I had to go through that to be who I am and I will continue to go through that.”
Gomez’s willingness to be open about her mental health issues led to My mind and me earning critical acclaim. Her hit Hulu series earned her a 2023 Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a TV Series, Musical or Comedy. It’s an honor that the “Back to You” crooner manifested itself while she was still part of the Disney machine.
When asked if winning a Grammy is an ambition of hers on the 2011 Grammys red carpet, Gomez replied, “I think it would be an honor, of course, but I’m more of a Golden Globe or Oscar girl. , so – it would be nice.”