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Selena Gomez reveals she thought about suicide for years after battling psychosis

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Updated 20:27 3 Nov 2022 GMTPublished 20:12 3 Nov 2022 GMT

Selena Gomez reveals she thought about suicide for years after battling psychosis

The star has wrestled with bipolar disorder and a life-threatening illness all before she turned 30 - and now she's opening up about it all.

Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang

Selena Gomez might be a world-famous name, but that doesn't mean that her glitzy life in Hollywood has always been smooth sailing.

The triple-threat Hollywood starlet revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone the true depth of her personal struggles, from suffering with bipolar disorder to suicidal thoughts.

"I thought the world would be better if I wasn't there," she told the magazine.

"I'm going to be very open with everybody about this: I've been to four treatment centres,' she told the publication."

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Gomez went on to reveal that her life turned into a rollercoaster of dizzying highs and staggering lows that could go for weeks or months.

Gomez in 2022.
AFF / Alamy Stock Photo

She told the magazine that she would get overexcited and do intense things like buy everyone she knew a new car.

Such erratic decisions can be a common symptom of mania and bipolar.

"I have a gift and I wanted to share it with people," she revealed of her thought process at the time.

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The lows, however, would 'start with depression, then it would go into isolation'

"Then it just was me not being able to move from my bed. I didn't want anyone to talk to me. My friends would bring me food because they love me, but none of us knew what it was," she revealed to Rolling Stone.

"Sometimes it was weeks I'd be in bed, to where even walking downstairs would get me out of breath."

Gomez's Apple TV+ documentary My Mind and Me is out on November 4.

Featured Image Credit: Hulu. MediaPunch Inc / Alamy.

Topics: Celebrity, Mental Health, Health, TV and Film

Rachel Lang
Rachel Lang

Rachel Lang is a Digital Journalist at LADbible. During her career, she has interviewed Aussie PM Malcolm Turnbull in the lead up to the 2016 federal election, ran an editorial campaign on the war in Yemen, and reported on homelessness in the lead-up to Harry and Meghan’s wedding in Windsor. She also once wrote a yarn on the cheese and wine version of Fyre Festival.

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