Selena Gomez ‘Could Have Died’ After Her Kidney Transplant
Francia Raísa, Selena Gomez’s best friend and kidney donor, revealed that there were some complications after the transplant that were near-fatal for the pop star.
By Admin on March 9, 2018
Francia Raísa, Selena Gomez’s best friend and kidney donor, opened up about the transplant experience. In a shocking revelation, it turns out that there were some serious complications post-op that could have been fatal.
Francia said that the surgery was three hours for both her and Selena. Recovery was rough, too. She told W Magazine:
“Recovery was hard. I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to drink anything. Selena did have a complication, too. A few hours after our surgery, I woke up and had a text from her that said, ‘I’m really scared.’ My kidney was very active, and when it turned I broke an artery. They had to take her into emergency surgery and get a vein from her leg and build a new artery to keep my kidney in place. She could have died.”
The two kept the surgery away from the public for as long as possible. Francia let Selena decide when she felt comfortable telling the story:
“We didn’t want to tell anybody because recovery was very hard for us, and we went through a depression at the time. We kind of just wanted to be normal and not have that attention on us. I really left it up to her. I’ve never had anything personal come out about me before. I’ve dated very famous people, and no one knows because I’m very private. I was like, ‘Did you have to be famous?’”
Francia also shared how she found out about Selena’s worsening condition with her lupus. The two were living together at the time:
“She went to go get tests, and she came home one day and she was serious. We all have our moments, so I just let her do her thing, I didn’t ask questions. She was asking me about my day and she grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge and tried to open it and couldn’t. Then she threw it on the floor, and she fell to the floor and started crying. I was like, ‘What is wrong with you?’ She said, ‘I need a new kidney. I don’t know what I’m going to do, the waitlist is seven to 10 years.’ And it just came out of me, and I said, ‘I’ll get tested.’ I called her assistant behind her back to get the information, and that’s how the process started.”
It’s a miracle that Francia was a match for Selena. These two will surely be friends for life.
