
Selena Gomez and Dua Lipa. Taylor Hill;Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Pictures(2)
Selena Gomez is setting the document straight on these Dua Lipa feud rumors after unfollowing the singer on social media this summer season.
Gomez, 31, addressed the hypothesis in an interview with Quick Firm revealed on Tuesday, October 3. “It was an accident!” she defined. “I used to be simply cleansing up a few of my Instagram. Then anyone referred to as me and was like, ‘What occurred with Dua?!’”
In line with the outlet, Gomez beforehand tried to make clear the misunderstanding in June by sharing a photograph of herself sporting a gown from Lipa’s La Vacanza collaboration.
“A bit of Versace/Dua second,” she captioned the Instagram snap.
The twosome have been beforehand photographed on the Selection’s Hitmakers Brunch in December 2022. Gomez and Lipa each stated they might be excited by collaborating with one another whereas doing interviews on the pink carpet.
“I like Selena. Completely! If one thing got here up, yeah,” Lipa advised Selection earlier than Gomez signed off on the thought as properly in a separate discuss with the outlet, “I’d love that too! I believe she was such a breath of recent air. I like how she form of got here and made it to the scene for dance to return again in a great way. I believe that’s highly effective, I believe she’s lovely.”
Gomez is not any stranger to clearing up rumors about her private life — together with her friendships. Earlier this yr, the Solely Murders within the Constructing star made a uncommon remark slamming the hate directed at her ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber‘s spouse, Hailey Bieber (née Baldwin).

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“Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has been receiving demise threats and such hateful negativity,” Gomez wrote through her Instagram Story in March. “This isn’t what I stand for. Nobody ought to need to expertise hate or bullying. I’ve all the time advocated for kindness and actually need this all to cease ❤️.”
Studies of rigidity between the pair have circulated for years. Gomez dated Justin, 29, on and off from 2010 to 2018. After they cut up for good, Justin rekindled his romance with Hailey, 26, they usually tied the knot in September 2018. (Justin and Hailey have been beforehand linked from 2015 to 2016 and held a second marriage ceremony ceremony in 2019.)
Hailey beforehand referred to as out the negativity she’s skilled on account of her marriage on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast in September 2022. “I’m like, I don’t know [why he picked me]. We fell in love. There have been occasions the place I can confidently say I don’t suppose we knew it was going to be one another,” she stated. “A number of occasions. I can’t say that at 18 years previous I knew that was my husband. I didn’t f—king know.”
Following the episode’s launch, Gomez seemingly defended Hailey from the social media trolls.
“I believe a few of the issues that I don’t even want to pay attention to are simply vile and disgusting, and it’s not truthful, and nobody, ever, must be spoken to within the method that I’ve seen,” Gomez advised her followers throughout a TikTok livestream on the time. “All I’ve to say is [that] it’s extremely ironic that I’d launch one thing that’s all about sort phrases, ’trigger that’s precisely what I would like. That’s it.”
As followers continued to surprise the place the duo stand, Hailey provided an replace on her standing with Gomez in March.
“I need to thank Selena for talking out, as her and I’ve been discussing the previous couple of weeks easy methods to transfer previous this ongoing narrative between her and I,” she wrote through her Instagram Story. “The previous couple of weeks have been very exhausting for everybody concerned and tens of millions of individuals are seeing a lot hate round this which is extraordinarily dangerous. Whereas social media is an unimaginable technique to join and construct group, moments like this solely create excessive division as an alternative of bringing individuals collectively.”
Hailey continued: “Issues can all the time be taken out of context or construed in another way than they have been meant. All of us have to be extra considerate about what we publish and what we are saying, together with myself. Ultimately, I consider love will all the time be greater than hate and negativity, and there’s all the time a possibility to fulfill one another with extra empathy and compassion.”
