Selena Gomez’s battle with lupus worsened to such an extreme in 2020 that she found herself in excruciating pain “everywhere.”
The Same Old Love The singer breaks down in tears in her new Apple TV+ documentary, My mind and I when he realizes that his autoimmune disease was increasing for the first time in years.
“I haven’t felt it since I was little,” says Gómez, despite having undergone a kidney transplant in 2017 thanks to a donation from her friend Francia Raisa, who does not appear in the documentary. Page Six reports
“Now it just hurts. Like, in the morning, when I wake up, I immediately start crying because it hurts, everything”, says the actress between tears.
“I think [about] my past and my mistakes. That’s what drives me to depression.”
Gomez, 30, gets a call from her doctor, who informs her that the pain is from an overlap of lupus and myositis, which causes muscle pain and weakness. The doctor suggests another dose of an intravenous drug called Rituxan, which would get rid of the star’s joint pain for “a year or so.”
“I always feel better when I have answers, but the Rituxan was really hard to do last time,” Gomez says. “It’s about four hours, five hours. It’s really hard on your system at first, but it’s okay.”
The star is then shown undergoing treatment at a medical facility and admits that doctors gave her a drug “to relax” because she “can’t stand being still.”
The Rare Beauty founder revealed in 2014 that she had lupus and was given chemotherapy drugs to treat it.
“That was really my break,” he said billboardin 2015 to step away from the spotlight for several months. “I could have had a stroke.”
At the time, many speculated that he had been in rehab for addiction.
“I really wanted to say, ‘You have no idea. I’m on chemotherapy. You’re an **hole.’ I shut down until I was safe and comfortable again,” the singer said.
Selena Gomez: My mind and me now streaming on Apple TV+.
This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission