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REAL REASON SELENA GOMEZ WENT TO REHAB

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Selena Gomez finally addresses the rehab stint that spawned a thousand
headlines in a revealing new interview for the May issue of GQ. In the cover
story, the pop star set the record straight on her 2014 stint in rehab — but
made it clear that she’s not happy to discuss it. 
When the singer announced that she had checked into a facility back in
January 2014, some observers were quick to assume that she was being treated
for some form of substance abuse. Gomez was forced to clarify that in fact she
had been diagnosed with Lupus, and her rehab stint was a way for her to get
better. 

“First off, this is something that everyone always wants to fixate on.
I got diagnosed with lupus. My mom had a very public miscarriage. So I had to
cancel my tour. I needed time to just be okay.” (The profile also notes
that Gomez, 23, mistakenly said she underwent “leukemia” instead of
chemotherapy, a common treatment for lupus that Gomez says she received at two
different rehab locations.)
The singer and actress didn’t hold back on addressing the larger issue at
hand and the reason that we’re still talking about her battle with the illness
so long after the fact: The public’s fixation on her past. “It’s really frustrating,”
she said. “My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my
future, which bums me out.” Gomez was particularly pointed in discussing
the media’s ruthless scrutiny of teenage stars who grew up in the limelight. “We’re
easy targets,” she explained. “Every single kid who was brought up
like this is an easy target. It’s disgusting, because it’s interesting to grown
adults that these kids go through weird things because they’re figuring out,
‘Do I like this? Do I love this? Maybe I love this person.'”
She also credits overexposure via Twitter and Instagram with fueling
tabloid gossip, and has a theory about why, exactly, people are so enthralled
by the trials and tribulations of child stars turning into adults.
“Because it’s, I don’t know, fun, maybe? It’s like watching a car crash as
you’re driving past it. You want to watch it.” She’s also got a solid plan
for overcoming everyone’s obsession with the ups and downs of her formative
years: Do good work, and change the conversation. “I just have to be
patient and make great things with quality, from producing to singing to
acting,” she said. “And one by one, I will be able to change the
dialogue and people won’t care about everything that’s happened to me.”
Check out the rest of Gomez’s intimate GQ interview here.
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