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Selena Gomez Talks to Hoda Kotb About Embracing Her Mental Health Journey: ‘I Told My Story, And I Felt Freedom From It’

Selena Gomez spoke to Today's Hoda Kotb about embracing her mental health journey and why she's dedicated a portion of her Rare brand to helping out.

TODAY Show co-host Hoda Kotb sits down with Selena Gomez — and Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy — for this week’s episode of her podcast “Making Space” to discuss their mission to change the way we talk about mental health. Gomez also recalled a conversation with an older women going through a divorce around the time the singer released her empowering 2019 single, “Lose You To Love Me,” and said that their five-minute chat was way more gratifying that taking a selfie with a fan. At the third annual Rare Beauty Mental Health Summit in New York in May Gomez — the most-followed woman on Instagram with 428 million followers — told Kotb that she disabled the comments on her Insta except for her friends.

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