Selena Gomez wanted to recognize the love that France Raisa showed him when He donated a kidney to her in 2017.
The singer, who at the time ensured that her “best friend” had “saved her life”continues to feel lucky to have loved ones capable of carrying out such transcendental actions as this for Improve your quality of life.
“I know I’m very lucky. I understand that these are things that don’t happen to most people, and I know the outcome of those situations and how serious they are, so I don’t take the fact that this happened to me lightly,” he said in an Apple TV “Dear…” interview.
It doesn’t matter the years that pass and the physical distance that exists between them. Selena Gomez will be forever grateful to her friend and knows the value of the decision she made when Raisa agreed to donate a kidney to help Selena treat the condition. lupus suffering.
“I will never, ever be more indebted to anyone than to France. The idea that someone wouldn’t even hesitate to be a donor was incredibly strong,” she said before showing the design they both wear on their skin to remember the date that changed their lives: “I have a tattoo with her today. That’s the date we did the transplant.”
This is how Selena Gomez and Francia Raísa met
In 2007Selena Gomez I was successful as an actress in children’s series like the Wizards of Waverly Place. For her part, Francia Raisa has also swept as an actress in audiovisual projects such as The secret life of an American teenager.
To take advantage of the fame they both had gained, disney there ABC organized a visit to the children’s hospital, social action in which they coincided for the first time. They got on very well and started a friendship that lasted for years.
Why Francia Raísa donated a kidney to Selena Gomez
It’s no secret that Selena Gomez suffers from lupusan autoimmune disease for which you need regular treatment.
However, in 2017, the complications came to a head: Selena needed a kidney transplant under the real risk of dying. Francia Raisa volunteered deliberate to donate the organ despite the risks that the operation could entail for her.
“There are no words to describe how I can thank my beautiful friend Francia Raísa. She gave me the best gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me.. I am incredibly blessed. I love you so much sister,” Selena posted on her Instagram with a photo together in their hospital beds.
In an interview that Francia Raisa gave weeks after the operation, she explained that this gesture already made them “family”: “She has my blood. I lost my grandparents when I was younger and now her grandparents are my grandparents, so I have an extended family. It’s been really Marvellous“.
Unlike Selena, however, France needed a much longer recovery, which really scared her:It’s harder when you’re the giver because you’re losing something the body didn’t need to lose. She was better right away when I was having a hard time. I couldn’t get up without someone helping me. I couldn’t bathe myself, someone had to help me because I couldn’t move.”
The wrath of Selena and Francia Raisa in 2019
Selena and Francia were very close but something broke their friendship for a few months in 2019. The actress criticized the singer for taking a completely unhealthy lifestylesomething the doctors had told him he couldn’t do after the operation.
“Selena did the exact opposite of what she said she would do when she was healed. She said that I wasn’t gonna drink anymore but she did. Francia called her questioning her behavior, because she “always cares about her and loves her”, but Selena would not have taken Raísa’s advice well and since last October they no longer speak to each other”, said said a source close to France about the distance between the actresses.
Despite everything, in July 2022, they published a TikTok together in which it could be verified that they had rediscovered their precious friendship.