Selena Gomez says she needed to hit rock bottom to write 'Lose You To Love Me'

Selena Gomez has amassed millions of fans around the world by sharing her success and her struggles with others. In the latest edition of Interview Magazine, Gomez sat down with friend and comedian Amy Schumer to discuss some of most devastating personal and professional moments, as well as what she’s looking forward to this year.After spending time in a treatment facility for depression and anxiety, Gomez returned with new music at the end of the 2019. The popstar released one of her most personal songs yet with the autobiographical “Lose You To Love Me,” which is believed to be about Gomez’s relationship with ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber. Gomez said that it took many steps to reach a point where she was able to be so vulnerable in her music, a mindset that would influence the rest of the songs on her third album Rare.

 

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Yesterday @amyschumer sent me her new movie I Feel Pretty (its because I’m obsessed with her) this movie is so important to watch. I encourage all my ladies out there to go with your girls and watch! We used to live in a time where we would say “I can’t wait to BE older” to now being a generation that wants to LOOK like an adult without understanding the responsibility or who we truly are on the inside sometimes. I know I can relate for sure! GO WATCH!! It’s our modern day 13 going on 30!!! #notgettingpaidtosaythis #truth ??

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[video_embed id='1919696']RELATED: Selena Gomez reveals Cole Sprouse was her childhood crush[/video_embed]“I wrote it [Lose You To Love Me] at the beginning of last year, and had just gotten out of treatment. It was a moment when I came back and I was like, ‘I’m ready to go into the studio with people I trust and start working on songs,’” remembers Gomez, who added that she now has an older audience thanks to the ballad. “There was an air around it where people were very happy, because it was like I was going to finally be me. But I didn’t necessarily see it that way at the time. When I wrote the song, I was basically saying that I needed to hit rock-bottom to understand that there was this huge veil over my face.”An actor since age seven, Gomez said she doesn’t remember a time when her life wasn’t under a very public microscope, one that took her most personal moments and made them headline news. Gomez said that she’s worked to find the silver lining in the invasion of privacy, including turning her mental health struggles into an opportunity to open the conversation around the taboo subject. “What has kept me afloat is that I know eventually it’ll be someone else—and I don’t mean that in a negative way. Sometimes it’s been bad for my career, but other times it’s like, ‘Now I can talk about things like my depression and anxiety, things that I’ve struggled with and which I’m totally open about, because I believe in seeking help.’ But other than that, what keeps me grounded is that I do my best to avoid it,’” said Gomez. “It’s not like I don’t live my life.”A star of film and television and a music superstar, Gomez is the fifth most followed person on Instagram, making her private life anything but. Speaking to Schumer, Gomez said that she’s worked hard to reclaim her own story. “My intention was never to become a tabloid. So when things kind of happened that way, it got out of control. And then I was like, ‘Wait, none of this is true.’ The way the media has sometimes tried to explain things has made it sound really bad, when in reality there’s nothing wrong with the fact that I needed to go away or that I fell in love,” said Gomez. “I had to start opening up because people were taking away my narrative and it was killing me. I’m so young and I’m going to keep changing, and no one has the right to tell me how my life’s going.”Gomez has conquered just about every facet of the entertainment industry and now has her sights set on making the beauty world more inclusive. Announcing her Rare Beauty line in February, Gomez says she wants the line to be accessible to everyone. “People of my generation have all this pressure to look a certain way, and I wanted to make a line that took away a bit of that pressure,” said Gomez. I use real people in the campaigns. I have 48 shades of foundation and concealer. It’s all very clean and easy. I wanted people to feel safe.”

 

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At just 27, @selenagomez is a global pop star, a tabloid fixture, a documentary and TV producer—and a philanthropist who has shifted her attention to coronavirus relief efforts. Following a well-documented struggle with mental and physical health, she has returned stronger than ever with the cathartic and confessional “Rare,” her third number-one album, and as she tells her friend @amyschumer in our new Spring Issue, she is done letting people control her narrative. Tap the link in our bio for the full story.⁣⁣ ⁣ Photographed by @elirusselllinnetz and styled by @melzy917.

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