Updated article on 20/08/21: Selena Gomez has opened up about the mental and physical health issues she's battled in recent years while living in the public eye.
In an interview with ELLE US, the singer discussed her bipolar and lupus diagnosis, as well as her kidney transplant and undergoing chemotherapy treatment. 'My lupus, my kidney transplant, chemotherapy, having a mental illness, going through very public heartbreaks — these were all things that honestly should have taken me down,' she told the publication. 'Every time I went through something, I was like, ‘What else?
What else am I going to have to deal with? You’re going to help people",' she told herself. 'That’s really what kept me going.