During an interview with iHeartRadio , Selena Gomez opened up about her friendship with Taylor Swift, who recently broke her 100-day Instagram hiatus to support I Said I Love You First.
"It was very sweet," Gomez said of the shoutout. She continued to explain, "With Taylor, I value her opinion so much, but because she's super honest. So I always played her, off any of my albums, the top two that I like to see what she thinks."
Swift has done the same, though the singer jokes, "I would never be like, 'That's a terrible song,' because she's so freaking good." She mentions that Swift will tell her when a song is simply okay, good, or a knockout. Gomez describes her and the process as "very helpful," adding, "I love people who are honest."
This has always been and will forever be a Taylena fan account @selenagomez @taylorswift13 pic.twitter.com/4Sp6e0BvnE
— iHeartRadio (@iHeartRadio) March 27, 2025
She then revealed that "Lose You to Love Me" was one of those "knockouts," sharing, "She and her amazing mom started crying and then I started crying, [it was] very sweet."
In an interview with Vanity Fair, she expressed that Swift is "really like a big sister to me." She also told WSJ magazine, "There’s so much of my friendship with Taylor that people don’t know about because we don’t necessarily feel the need to post about everything we do. She has showed up for me in ways that I would have never expected. Flown in because I was hurt and was going through something. Stuff that was going on with my family. It’s been proven year after year and in every moment of my life that she is one of my best friends in the world."
Gomez made I Said I Love You First with another very important person in her life: her fiancé, Benny Blanco. "Through the creation of I Said I Love You First, Benny and I got to explore so many sides of ourselves as individual people and as a couple," she wrote on Instagram. The couple got engaged in December of last year, and of course, Swift commented in support on Gomez's Instagram announcement post: "yes I will be the flower girl."
More must-reads:
Get the latest news and rumors, customized to your favorite sports and teams. Emailed daily. Always free!