Selena Gomez claims she experienced emotional “abuse” during her relationship with ex Justin Bieber.
“It’s dangerous to stay in a victim mentality. And I’m not being disrespectful, I do feel I was a victim to certain abuse,” the “Lose You to Love Me” singer said in a new interview with NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.”
Gomez, 27, clarified that she meant emotional abuse, and added, “I think that it’s something that — I had to find a way to understand it as an adult. And I had to understand the choices I was making.”
The pop star said she doesn’t want to “spend the rest of my life talking about this,” but is “really proud that I can say I feel the strongest I’ve ever felt and I’ve found a way to just walk through it with as much grace as possible.”
Gomez has channeled much of her heartbreak into her new album “Rare,” which the singer said she felt like she needed to do because she “didn’t get a respectful closure.”
“I had accepted that, but I know I needed some way to just say a few things that I wish I had said,” she explained, adding that “Lose You to Love Me” is “not a hateful song.”
“It’s a song that is saying — I had something beautiful and I would never deny that it wasn’t that,” she continued. “It was very difficult and I’m happy it’s over. And I felt like this was a great way to just say, you know, it’s done, and I understand that, and I respect that, and now here I am stepping into a whole other chapter.”
Gomez and Bieber, 27, dated off and on since 2010, but split for good in March 2018.
Four months later, the “Sorry” singer started dating Hailey Baldwin, whom he then married in September 2018.
The couple tied the knot again in a second religious wedding in September 2019.
Gomez told NPR why she decided to speak up more about the “trials and tribulations of my life” because “people were already going to narrate that for me.”
“I wasn’t going to have a choice because of how fast everything moves now,” she added. “And most of the time, yes, it’s not true, or it’s an embellished version of what the truth is. I want to be able to tell my story the way that I want to tell it.”
Bieber did not immediately return a request for comment.
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