Actress Francia Raisa, who donated a kidney to Selena Gomez, giving the singer a new lease on life, has addressed the rumors of a rift between them after she failed to attend her wedding.

 

 

 

The 37-year-old was featured in a new interview in which she claimed that reports of her falling out with Gomez were just ‘rumors’.

 

 

 

 

Raisa also referenced Gomez’s then-upcoming wedding to Benny Blanco, which she reportedly did not attend.

 

 

 

 

In the interview, which was apparently filmed at an event in a bookstore, Raisa wished Gomez the best ahead of her wedding while speaking in Spanish.

 

 

 

‘I know she’s getting married, and I’m very happy for her. And look… she has a life and she is already a billionaire and I am grateful that I could do that for her,’ she said, according to translated subtitles.

 

 

 

After she was asked what she would say to anyone considering organ donation, Raisa said: ‘Look, from the beginning the doctors told me, it’s a donation.’

 

 

 

‘If you are going to donate a dollar to St. Jude or somewhere else, you’re not going to call to say, “Hey, what are you doing with my dollar?”

 

 

 

‘It’s a donation and it’s something nice that I was able to do,’ she said of the kidney she gave to Gomez. ‘I am grateful that I am alive and I can say that I have saved a life.’

 

 

 

 

Raisa also suggested that organ donation could be ‘more difficult’ for women compared to men, though she didn’t expand on what might cause that gender divide.

 

 

 

The How I Met Your Father actress gave a strong response when asked about reports claiming she was “angry” with Gomez for how the singer was taking care of her body after the kidney transplant.

 

 

 

‘Well, right now what you are asking me is nonsense that has been in the media, and there are too many rumors,’ she responded. ‘I’ve never said anything.’

 

 

 

‘When that rumor came out that I had gotten angry or something like that because [Gomez] was smoking, I wasn’t aware of those rumors,’ Raisa added.

 

 

 

‘No one knows what’s going on, and neither she nor I are talking about it,’ she continued, adding, ‘One day, maybe we will address it.’

 

 

 

Raisa donated a kidney to Gomez in 2017 after the Spring Breakers star was diagnosed with lupus.