Selena Gomez suffers from Lupus, an autoimmune disorder that typically harms tissues and organs. Robert Montgomery, a transplant surgeon and director of the Transplant Institute at NYU Langone Health, disclosed that between 10 and 30% of people with lupus get kidney transplants.
“You wait as long as you can, and once kidneys are sort of at the end of their functioning, then that’s the time you want to get the transplant,” he explained.
Gomez’s kidneys were failing by the beginning of summer, and Raisa took notice. Francia Raisa who is an American actress and known for her roles in Bring It On, All or Nothing and The Secret Life of the American Teenager, is the friend Selena could count on to save her life in her darkest moments.
Raisa said there was a day when Gomez was too weak to even open a water bottle. At this point, Gomez was waiting for a kidney transplant, but the list was several years long.
“It just vomited out of me, I was like, ‘Of course I’ll get tested,'” Raisa told Guthrie. “I called her assistant, and I said, ‘Give me the information. I wanna do this.” she said.
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The two recovered together in a home that Gomez rented for them. During recovery, they were only allowed an hour of walking a day, and required assistance for basic activities such as getting dressed. Francia said “We couldn’t take showers by ourselves. It was a really brutal process,” Raisa said.
These days, Gomez’s lupus is in remission, and there is only a 3% – 5% chance that it will return. And the girls are officially off bed rest: Raisa is busy shooting Grown-ish and Gomez is set to perform for the first time post surgery at the 2017 AMAs.
Report gathers that Selena Gomez splits from Boyfriend ‘The Weekend’ after 6 months after her mother complained about his rudeness and who knows, maybe other co,plicated reasons are involved, but nothing has been mentioned about the issue by Selena herself.
