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Selena Gomez<\/a> ain’t playin’ around when it comes to her friends … clapping back at haters who thought she insulted Taylor Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n Here’s the deal … the “Bluest Flame” singer commented “lol” under an Instagram post showing Taylor celebrating the New York Knicks’ comeback win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Taylor was snapped with her pals Alana<\/a> and Este Haim<\/a> as well as “Law & Order: SVU” actress Mariska Hargitay<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Internet trolls immediately thought Selena was shading Taylor … but Selena cleared it all up with a post to her Instagram Story late Thursday evening, writing … “Woke up and was sent so many texts. I would never insult my friends nor was it an insult.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Selena said the “lol” comment was a reaction to the first photo on the slide … which shows Mariska making a hilarious face as Taylor gives her an enthusiastic hug.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n She went on to further explain she actually made a bet on the game with some friends and lost. So, the comment was also her poking fun at her friends. She said, “Believe it or not I do have other friends in my life. But quickly forget that most assume otherwise. also .. It\u2019s a basketball game.”<\/p>\n Well, that settles that.<\/p>\n As you know, Taylor was one of the many big names that made it<\/a> to Madison Square Garden Wednesday night to watch the Knicks mount a historic 29-point comeback to beat the Spurs.<\/p>\n Taylor then partied on<\/a> at the exclusive club Zero Bond, where Sombr<\/a>, Hailey Bieber<\/a>, and more were also spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez I Did Not Shade Taylor Swift! Published June 12, 2026 6:26 AM PDT | Updated June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-732213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"selena](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/905c6295e3b448a489b0f7272d2424f6_md.jpg\")
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