Selena Gomez recently admitted that she now chooses her friends carefully because “girls are mean.”
In a recent interview with TIME, Selena shared that she only maintains friendships with “levelheaded people.”
“It’s a cliché, but girls are mean,” she told TIME. “It’s a very weird competition, being in the cool girls area — and then I’m just kind of like, there. I don’t know where I’m meant to belong.”
She added that her closest friends are unaffected by her level of fame. In fact, her three best friends are a real estate agent, a producer, and a casting director.
“I love having levelheaded people around that couldn’t give two f-—ks about what I do,” she said.
Furthermore, Selena touched on the topic of loneliness — and how that has impacted her emotionally.
“You could be in a crowd of people and still feel alone. I still deal with that,” she confessed. “You can distract yourself and you can deny and deny all you want, but it’ll still be there. I just allow myself to have those days.”
Selena Gomez on Friends and Relationships
The interviewer then asked whether her relationship with her partner, Benny Blanco, has helped alleviate some of the loneliness and other emotions she feels.
“It’s a little irrelevant, only because he isn’t my only source of happiness,” Selena stated. “I was alone for five years, and I got really used to it.”
“A lot of people are afraid of being alone and I probably tortured myself in my head for like two years being alone, and then I kind of accepted it. Then I came up with my plan, which was I was going to adopt at 35 if I had not met anyone.”
However, she then ended up meeting Benny. At first, the two were just friends, with Benny even offering to set her up with someone he knew. Soon after, Selena realized she had romantic feelings for Benny.
“It just happens when you least expect it,” she said.