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After fans questioned the relationship betwixt Selena Gomez and her BFF Raquelle Stevens pursuing the merchandise of the singer's My Mind & Me documentary, Raquelle is mounting the grounds straight.
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Selena Gomez's adjacent person Raquelle Stevens wants to archer you thing you don't know.
Three months aft the merchandise of the singer's My Mind & Me documentary—which featured footage of Selena's relationship with the Sunshine Mind author—Raquelle is yet responding to critics.
"Anytime you bash thing nationalist successful life, you're taxable to opinions of different people," Raquelle said during a Feb. 3 quality connected the Chicks successful the Office podcast. "You conscionable don't adjacent spell determination if you're not consenting to beryllium capable to instrumentality the heat, but the biggest happening for maine was that the documentary was a beautiful, beauteous portion of enactment that Selena truthful vulnerably shared with the world.
As the 30-year-old noted, "It was her beingness story, and portion of what was included successful that documentary was our friendship, which is peculiar and it's honest, and it's real."
Shortly aft the movie was released successful November 2022, Raquelle faced disapproval from fans online who called the writer "dismissive" and "controlling" during their interactions.
But for Raquelle, her enslaved with the Selena + Chef prima goes beyond what fans were capable to see.
"I deliberation what it's a bully reminder of is that erstwhile radical are scrolling done Instagram oregon they're scrolling done TikTok, oregon you're watching a documentary, you're getting a tiny glimpse into someone's life, you're not seeing the afloat picture," she continued. "And the information is we've had a relationship for the past decennary due to the fact that it's real, it's honorable and I'm truthful grateful for that."
She added, "And I'm grateful that it was included successful the documentary due to the fact that I deliberation that it is important to see, and I deliberation it's astonishing that Selena welcomes honesty successful her friendships and I invited that successful my beingness too."
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For Raquelle, moving past the backlash is rather simple, arsenic she explained that her interior bid is rather unwavering.
"When your interior beingness is beardown and you are surviving a beingness with integrity, you slumber peacefully each azygous night,," she noted. "And it doesn't substance what you face, what you spell done — there's a bid that comes with surviving a beingness of integrity, and truthful I truly americium unafraid successful who I am. I cognize the benignant of person that I am. Anyone truly could accidental anything, but I person a bid that is unshakable."
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