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Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa are ready to talk — together.
The “Wolves” singer, 25, shocked fans in September by announcing that, due to lupus complications, she’d received a kidney transplant from her best friend Raisa over the summer. The two pals sat down with Today for a joint interview about the surgery, recovery and the months since.
“My kidneys were just done,” Gomez told Savannah Guthrie. “That was it, and I didn’t want to ask a single person in my life. The thought of asking someone to do that was really difficult for me. She volunteered and did it. And let alone someone wanting to volunteer, it is incredibly difficult to find a match. The fact that she was a match, I mean that’s unbelievable. That’s not real.”
Raisa was sharing a house with Gomez when she realized how weak her friend was becoming.
“Did you ever fear for your own health?” –@savannahguthrie
“I had to write a will which was scary.” –@therealfrancia pic.twitter.com/vAzPMnT45d— TODAY (@TODAYshow)
“One day she came home and she was emotional. I hadn’t asked anything. I knew she hadn’t been feeling well,” the Grown-ish actress said. “She couldn’t open a water bottle one day. She chucked it and she started crying. And I said, ‘What’s wrong?’ and that’s when she told me. And she goes, ‘I don’t know what to do. The list is seven to ten years long.
She continued, “It just vomited out of me: I was like, ‘Of course I’ll get tested.’”
Raisa explained that because they were in an “emergency situation,” she completed her testing in a day — a process that usually takes about six months.
Before the surgery day, the girls had a friend French braid their hair and ate a big meal. But the fear was certainly there.
“I had to write a will, which was scary because there’s no guarantee I’ll wake up,” Raisa said.
Raisa went into surgery first and everything went well. Gomez also woke up from her procedure feeling fine but realized an excruciating pain as she tried to nap.
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