Francia Raisa just opened up about building back her friendship with Selena Gomez. In a new interview with USA Today, the actress got candid about their years-long estrangement and subsequent reconciliation, revealing that the two didn’t speak much in six years.
Explaining how she and Gomez got in contact again, Francia said that the “Lose You to Love Me” singer was the one to extend an olive branch. “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,” said Raisa, who first met Gomez when they were teenagers back in 2007. “We hadn’t spoken much in six years. Especially the last year, we didn’t speak at all.”
The next month, Francia turned 35, and to her surprise, Selena wished her a very public happy birthday on Instagram. “I don’t know why the universe decided this timing … then she reached out and said, ‘Let’s talk,'” Raisa said, adding that the two went to dinner and decided that there was “no beef, just salsa” between them.
“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,” Francia said. “Then when you come back together, you’re better people. She and I are still getting to know each other again.”
She continued, “And 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.”
Back in 2017, the pair’s friendship first made headlines after the Francia donated her kidney to Selena, who needed a transplant due to Lupus complications. Several years later, fans began to speculate about the state of their friendship after the Gomez called Taylor Swift her “only friend” in the industry during a Rolling Stone interview. Raisa was also noticeably absent from the Rare Beauty founder’s documentary My Mind and Me, which was filmed from 2016 to 2020.
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