Selena Gomez is the fifth person in the world with more followers on Instagram, a successful artist with various series, films and discs in the market, A reference for millions of fans who love it. Everything seems to smile for the 30 -year -old Tejana artist. But the reality behind the cameras and media spotlights is very different.

The documentary My mind and me It presents an unknown face of Selena, that of a vulnerable person with Complex mental health problems that fights every day to get ahead in a often frivolous and implacable world such as Hollywood star.

Selena Gomez’s other face

Selena Gomez in a promotional image of My mind and me

October 9, 2015. Selena Gomez publishes her second album named Revival In his newcomer record, Interscope Records, who has published works of stars such as Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Lana del Rey or Gwen Stefani. Revivalas he did Stars dance In 2103, his first album, You have no problem reaching number 1 of Billboard 200.

Selena Gomez becomes the artist of the moment, The most desiredbut after going on tour in May 2016 he is forced to cancel the rest of the actions. And the mystery and rumors They loom the Hollywood more glittering star.

You have to have a lot of value to want to put an end to your life and understand that this is not your destiny. I know the feeling of being about to do something to hurt you.

As many artists born from the inexhaustible Hollywood quarry, Selena manages to succeed in full adolescence, without having reached maturity. His work with Disney makes her a youth idoland the powerful American entertainment industry seizes its figure. Selena gets her dream of being an artist, but the hidden face of stardom, so many times lamented between Hollywodense bambalines, threatens his private life.

Selena Gomez He was born in 1992 In Grand Prairie (Texas), daughter of a theater actress of Italian ancestry and a Mexican. At the fifties, his parents divorce, and Selena is in charge of his mother who is only 21 years old. The economic difficulties were common in the childhood of Selena that received her name in honor of the Queen of Tejana Music.

Under his mother, Selena is attracted to the world of acting and Make your first auditions with only 10 years. But it would be in 2007, already with 15, when the young Tejana gets a role in Wizards of Waverly Place of Disney Channel. The rest is history.

I have to stop living like this. Why have I moved away so much from the light? I have always had everything I have wanted and desired, but that has killed me.

After a humble life in which, sometimes, they had no “money or gasoline”, Selena meets 15 years living a dream. But, in a short time, the artist begins to discover the bitter side of fame while fighting with her health problems.

Selena Gomez in an interview – Source: Depositphotos

In 2017 he reveals that his retirement is linked to lupus that have diagnosed her. Receive a Kidney transplant in a critical operation in which you should receive emergency surgery after breaking an artery. Shortly after suffering a Psychotic outbreak. In 2020 it is diagnosed with bipolar disorder After spending two months in a psychiatric hospital.

Selena Gomez is no longer that teenager who triumphed in Disney, is a woman who must combine her profession with the daily battle against her mental health problems. In the documentary My mind and methe Tejana artist shows how Fame is a double edge weapon able to fulfill the most incredible dreams and generate the most sinister nightmares.

Aware of its immense media impact, Selena Gómez has initiated a series of initiatives, with the documentary My mind & me Like bastion, for Blanque traditionally vetoed songs on the Hollywooden agenda: Depression, anxiety and other mental health disorders that dozens of personalities live that, with their work, maintain the most important entertainment industry in the world.

The Selena Gomez case and Hollywood’s ‘broken toys’

Corey Feldman (second on the right) and River Phoenix (first on the right) in an image of Account with me (1986)

Brittany Murphy, Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Brad Renfro, Jonathan Brandis, Lindsay Lohan, Drew Barrymore or River Phoenix are just some of the many Hollywood stars that reached the star in their youth for a then Face to deep and/or vital crises They threatened their career.

In some cases, such as Drew Barrymore, they managed to redirect both professional and vital. Others did not run the same fate. This is the case of one’s own River Phoenixthe most promising artist of his generation, a kind of James Dean of the 90s That, with only 23 years, he died of overdose to the gates of the legendary Viper Room of Los Angeles owned by his friend Johnny Depp. The emergency call – filtrated to the press – of his brother Joaquin Stay.

But if there is a broken toy case that clouds the story of the classic Hollywood that of Judy Garlandthe great myth of The Oz Wizard That, for years, he became, of doors outskirts, in the mimada girl of Hollywood. The problem, inside, was that Judy was no longer a girl and that she was not, much less, spoiled.

Signed 13 years by the Goldwyn-Mayer subway through its famous founder, the famous Louis B. Mayer-which would nicknamed it in a derogatory way “My little hunchback”– He reached stardom four years later with The Oz Wizard.

Judy Garland on a poster of Oz wizardthe “Metro-Goldwyn Mayer triumph”

Since then Judy began a parallel (and private) descent to hell while erected in the great figure of the classic Hollywood. Legend has it that the study “prescribed” the actress and singer A soup menu, lettuce, amphetamines and 80 cigarettes daily to increase productivity and mitigate appetite: all with the aim of maintaining the line to interpret their innocent adolescent papers. A corset squeezed his chest so that his appearance was even more annoyed.

After numerous ups and downs in his career and after being fired for his former study, Judy died of barbiturate overdose On June 22, 1969. His funeral in New York was massive and his legend is still alive thanks to many unforgettable moments.

The pity is that the actress never had the opportunity to record a documentary on the dark side of her rise to stardom that would have dynamited that glowing Hollywood of rainbow and perpetual smile. And is that “The show should always continue”… at the expense of, among other things, the mental health problems of many of their stars.