Francia Raisa and Selena Gomez’s reunion came about on the proper time for the 2 stars.
“It’s still crazy to me that people were invested in our friendship,” Raisa, 35, informed USA These days in an interview printed on Thursday, December 28. “I don’t know why the timing happened the way it did, but I remember being in St. Tropez in June and I kept talking about her. We hadn’t spoken much in six years. Especially [in] the last year, we didn’t speak at all.”
She persevered: “I don’t know why the universe decided this timing … then she reached out and said, ‘Let’s talk.’”
In July, Gomez, 31, despatched the How I Met Your Father big name a birthday message by means of Instagram ahead of privately getting again in contact. They scheduled a reunion dinner, the place they met and agreed they'd “no beef, just salsa.”
“We’ve never really had beef with each other. Nothing happened, and if you ask either of us, we don’t know what happened but we needed that time apart,” Raisa informed USA These days. “Then when you come back together, you’re better people. She and I are still getting to know each other again.”
Gomez and Raisa met after they had been starring on Wizards of Waverly Position and The Secret Lifetime of the American Teen, respectively. Consistent with Raisa, they bonded over “teenage breakups,” their Mexican American heritage and a mutual love of Mexican meals. Raisa even gave her kidney to Gomez, who suffers from lupus, in 2017.
“I knew it was a match, I knew it was going to happen. No one forced me to do anything,” Raisa recalled of present process the surgical operation throughout an August look at the “Good Guys” podcast. “It came out of the genuine kindness of my heart. I have been super blessed ever since.”
Just about 5 years later, fanatics speculated that the pair had been not shut after Gomez informed Rolling Stone in November 2022 that Taylor Swift is her “only friend in the industry.” (Gomez in the end apologized for no longer bringing up “every person” she is aware of within the article.)
Raisa informed USA These days that she and Gomez aren't harping at the alleged feud.
“Obviously, you know, I gave the girl a kidney so everyone felt a certain way and I was asked for years and years and years, ‘Do you regret it?’ and I was like, ‘No, the relationship has always been there.’ There was just a tiff,” Raisa defined.