{"id":739276,"date":"2026-08-15T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739276\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T23:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T23:02:13","slug":"selena-gomez-angry-about-fraud-lawsuit-against-mental-health-brand-wondermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739276\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez angry about fraud lawsuit against mental health brand Wondermind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only Murders In The Building\u00a0and\u00a0Waverly Place\u00a0star Selena Gomez is sounding fairly pissed off this week, denouncing a recent fraud lawsuit launched against her mental health wellness brand Wondermind. Per\u00a0People<\/a>, the lawsuit was aimed at Gomez, her mother Mandy Teefey, and former Wondermind co-CEO Daniella Pierson, claiming the trio \u201cfalsely represented\u201d the company\u2019s \u201cinfrastructure, leadership, and resources\u201d while soliciting more than a million dollars in investments\u2014which is a fancy way to say that there have been a lot of allegations that, while the company sold itself as being able to capitalize on Gomez\u2019s massive celebrity and social media following (something that\u2019s made her cosmetics company Rare Beauty a reportedly billion-dollar business), in actuality, it was being run almost entirely by Teefey, with very little involvement from her famous daughter.<\/p>\n

All of this was laid out in a fairly brutal September 2025 article in\u00a0The Cut<\/a>, which talked to several anonymous former Wondermind employees about the not-especially-pleasant-sounding experience of working for Teefey, who the article portrayed as unwell, disorganized, and generally not up to the strain of running a company alone. (Pierson, founder of The Newsette\u2014and the subject of her own takedown article in\u00a0Forbes\u00a0last year<\/a>\u2014exited Wondermind a year after its 2021 founding, reportedly after conflict with Teefey.) The lawsuit says investors got seriously worried about getting their money back when\u00a0Forbes\u00a0ran a report back in May 2025 that the company had failed to pay its employees; Gomez reportedly stepped in to cover the debts.<\/p>\n

(Meanwhile, if you\u2019re wondering what Wondermind\u2014which bills itself as \u201cThe World\u2019s First Mental Fitness Ecosystem\u2014actually does or makes, the answer is: Not very much, as far as we can tell. The site has run a blog<\/a>, which has only intermittently been updated in recent years, and ran two short-lived podcasts in the past. But plans for snack offerings, a docuseries about Venus Williams, an app, and film projects have all failed to materialize. Many of the staffers quoted in\u00a0The Cut\u00a0article noted that Teefey\u2014whose biggest professional success was pretty objectively the period where she served as Gomez\u2019s manager in the early years of her career, before being fired by her daughter in 2014\u2014was good at suggesting projects, but not at actually bringing them to fruition.)<\/p>\n

Gomez, like we said, sounds pretty angry to be getting her name and brand dragged through the mud with all this. Per\u00a0People, her legal team put out a statement this weekend, stating that \u201cThe allegations that Selena Gomez engaged in any way whatsoever in any purported \u2018fraud\u2019 or other wrongdoing are completely meritless, both factually and legally. We will vigorously defend these false allegations and indeed are filing a motion to dismiss the baseless claims against her.\u201d Teefey and Pierson, both named as co-defendants, haven\u2019t made public statements as of yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Only Murders In The Building\u00a0and\u00a0Waverly Place\u00a0star Selena Gomez is sounding fairly pissed off this week, denouncing a recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}