{"id":379818,"date":"2026-04-15T00:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379818\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T00:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:34:08","slug":"selena-gomez-demi-lovato-friendship-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/379818\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato Friendship Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exchange<\/a>, which took place outside a London hotel, launched countless feud theories. First, Lovato was chummy with Taylor Swift. Then Lovato went through a rough breakup with Joe Jonas, Swift went on to briefly date the Camp Rock\u00a0star, Gomez and Swift became dear friends… Discuss.<\/p>\n

But when Lovato was in a downward spiral toward the end of 2010, resulting in her first trip to rehab<\/a>, Gomez and Swift were among the people who reached out to her\u2014a revelation that helped quash the speculation that Gomez’s squad membership<\/a> had come between them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gomez eventually acknowledged that she and Lovato\u00a0were\u00a0on the outs<\/a> for a while, and she owned up to her role in how that happened.<\/p>\n

“I’ve known her since we were 7, and we did fall apart for a while,” the Only Murders in the Building star told Seventeen in 2014<\/a>, when she and Lovato, born just a month apart, were 21. “She was going through things and I was so young and it was confusing. I processed it saying, ‘OK, I don’t understand what she’s going through, so I’m just going to do this.’ I don’t think it was fair, and I’m so happy that I have her back in my life now.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The exchange, which took place outside a London hotel, launched countless feud theories. First, Lovato was chummy with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-379818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}