ALAM niya kung ano ang makabubuti sa kanya. Naging bukas si Selena Gomez sa May 2016 issue ng GQ, na na-diagnose siyang may lupus at kung bakit siya pumasok sa rehab noong 2014.

Maingat na inumpisahan ng writer na si Zach Baron ang paksa tungkol sa rehab, at mabilis na sumagot si Selena ng:

“No, no, no, no, no.” Ayon sa artikulo ni Baron, makikita sa mukha ni Selena ang “frustration and disgust”.

“First off, this is something that everyone always wants to fixate on,” paggunita ng Same Old Love singer, 23. “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 OK.” (Nakunan ang ina ni Selena na si Mandy Teefey noong 2011, dahilan upang kanselahin ni Selena ang kanyang mga holiday concert).

Isiniwalat ni Selena sa isang panayam noong Oktubre na sumailalim na siya sa chemotherapy para gamutin ang kanyang lupus, isang chronic autoimmune disease kung saan labis ang pananakit ng katawan ng tao, at nagkakalagnat din ito.

“I was going through leukemia,” pahayag ni Gomez sa GQ, na ang nais naman talaga nitong iparating ay “chemotherapy,” paglilinaw ni Baron sa naging pahayag ni Selena. “And I went to two different locations for those treatments.”

“It’s really frustrating, because I am 100 percent allowed to have that, but I think people just want to have some sort of — I understand what you’re asking,” pagpapatuloy ni Selena. “But I’m just saying, I don’t think it really matters. My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out… Why do you care?”

Nang ipaliwanag ni Baron na nais lamang niyang malaman ang kalagayan ni Selena matapos itong makipaglaban sa lupus sa murang edad — kinalimutan na ito ni Selena, at ibinahagi ang personal na karanasan nang bisitahin niya ang isang ospital ng mga bata.

“There was this kid that wouldn’t look me in the eye at all,” paggunita ni Selena. “And I wear my emotions on my face, as you just have witnessed. And I don’t care, that’s who I am. I wanted to get his attention, even though maybe it was too much. So I just said, ‘Ask me anything you want.’ And he was the first person that I told, besides my best friend and family, because he asked me, ‘Have you ever dealt with anything like this?’ And I said, ‘I have lupus. I was in the ICU for two and a half weeks. I was in this exact same room.’ And it was the first time that he looked at me.”

Pagtatapos ni Selena: “I don’t ever really like to sit and dwell on what that experience was. Was it fun? No. Is it fun to have it? No.“

Ang isa pang paksa na hindi masyadong nagustuhan ni Selena na pag-usapan ay ang pagbabago niya bilang Disney star.

Base na artikulo ni Baron, halata ang “pure anger” sa tono ng pananalita ni Gomez.

“We’re easy targets. Every single kid who was brought up like this is an easy target,” aniya, tinutukoy ang mga kasamahan niyang sina Miley Cyrus, Jonas brothers, Demi Lovato at iba pa. “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. Oh, I’m exposed to this, people are reporting my every move and this and that because of Instagram and Twitter and you can find out everything.’” (US Weekly)