Actress Francia Raisa, who donated a kidney to Selena Gomez, has detailed her ADHD and chronic PTSD diagnosis.
Posting on TikTok last week Francia told fans how ‘three months ago, I learned I have ADHD and chronic PTSD. Since then, I’ve been in intense therapy – learning, unlearning, and finally just healing’.
Under the heading ‘vulnerable post incoming,’ she explained how dancing has become part of her healing journey and ‘the thing that hurt me most is slowly giving me back pieces of myself.’
The actress detailed how a 2008 ‘breakup in the dance world turned something I loved into a trigger,’ and said that by 2022 ‘my body started physically reacting to the trauma I hadn’t dealt with. I went to so many doctors, learned about different conditions, and changed my lifestyle… but something was still wrong. I wasn’t myself.’
‘Three months ago, I learned I have ADHD and chronic PTSD. Since then, I’ve been in intense therapy – learning, unlearning, and finally just healing.’
The post came days before Francia shut down reports that she has fallen out with Selena and referenced the star’s wedding to Benny Blanco, which she reportedly did not attend.
Actress Francia Raisa, who donated a kidney to Selena Gomez , has detailed her ADHD and chronic PTSD diagnosis
Francia donated a kidney to Selena in 2017 after her lupus diagnosis. In her new post Francia told fans how she recently ‘learned I have ADHD and chronic PTSD’
The 37-year-old was featured in a new interview in which she claimed that reports of her falling out with Selena were just ‘rumours’.
In the interview, which was apparently filmed at an event in a bookstore, she wished Selena 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, Francia emphasized that the process is about saving someone’s life, rather than creating a special bond with them.
‘Look, from the beginning the doctors told me, it’s a donation,’ she explained.
‘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 Selena. ‘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 actress detailed how a 2008 ‘breakup in the dance world turned something I loved into a trigger,’ and said that by 2022 ‘my body started physically reacting to the trauma’
Under the heading ‘vulnerable post incoming,’ she explained how dancing has become part of her healing journey and ‘the thing that hurt me most is slowly giving me back pieces of myself’
The How I Met Your Father actress had a forceful response when she was asked about reports that she had gotten ‘angry’ with Selena over how she was treating her body after receiving her kidney.
‘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,’ she 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.’
Francia donated a kidney to Selena in 2017 after the Spring Breakers star was diagnosed with lupus.
Sufferers of the disease have hyperactive immune systems that can attack their healthy tissues and organs, .
The 37-year-old was featured in a new interview in which she claimed that reports of her falling out with Selena were just ‘rumors’
In a 2018 interview, Francia admitted that both she and Selena fell into a bout of depression following the kidney donation procedure, which nearly killed Gomez after one of her arteries burst in the middle of surgery.
Francia recalled the warning that a social worker gave her before the surgery.
‘It’s going to be hard, the recipient is going to glow and she’s going to recover a lot faster than the donor because she’s getting something she needs and you are losing something you don’t need to lose. It’s going to be hard,’ she recalled being told in an interview with SELF.
‘And it was hard,’ Francia continued, adding, ‘Selena and I both went through a depression.’
Francia also raised her shirt and lowered her pants to reveal a mark resembling a ‘C-section’ scar, as well as smaller scars higher on her stomach.
Francia and Selena previously revealed their scars from the donation procedure. Selena also has one on the inside of her thigh from emergency surgery to save her life after one of her arteries burst during the procedure
She also noted that Selena had a large scar on the inside of her thigh that was from the emergency surgery to repair her rupture artery.
In the same interview, Francia mentioned that it was Gomez who informed her that she was a match for the kidney donation, rather than doctors, which led some fans to worry that she may have felt pressured to agree to the donation.
In 2022, the pair were rumored to be feuding after Selena said in a Rolling Stone interview that ‘My only friend in the industry really is Taylor [Swift], so I remember feeling like I didn’t belong.’
‘Interesting,’ Francia wrote in a since-deleted comment on a post about the quotation.
In response to Francia’s comment, Selena replied, ‘Sorry I didn’t mention every person I know.’
But the following year, the two tried to tamp down any talk of a feud.
‘I will never, ever, ever be more in debt to a person that Francia,’ Gomez said in her Apple TV+ docuseries Dear… ‘The idea of someone not even second-guessing to be a donor was unbelievably overwhelming.’
The same year, Francia emphasized that she was not ‘forced’ into donating her kidney.
Both actress tamped down speculation about a feud in 2023, but Francia admitted that she and Selena hadn’t spoken much in recent years, though they had recently gotten close again
‘It came out of the genuine kindness of my heart, and I’ve been super blessed ever since,’ she said in an interview on the Good Guys podcast.
In December 2023, Francia admitted that she and Gomez had been distant in recent years, but she confirmed that they were still friends.
‘We hadn’t spoken much in six years. Especially [in] the last year, we didn’t speak at all,’ she told USA Today, though she said that they had made up around her 35th birthday.
‘We’ve never really had beef with each other. Nothing happened, and if you ask either of us, we don’t know what happened, but we needed that time apart. Then when you come back together, you’re better people.’
In 2024, she told E! News that she and Selena could go long periods of time without talking despite still being friends.
Francia was reportedly not at Selena’s wedding, which featured A-listers including Taylor Swift, Gomez’s Only Murders In The Building costars Steve Martin and Martin Short, Zoe Saldaña, Paris and Nicky Hilton and Ed Sheeran, among others
‘One of the best, the best friendships that I know, you go a year without talking, and then when you see each other again, it’s like you never went a day without talking. So, that’s where it’s at,’ she said of her relationship with Selena.
Francia also noted that, although she and Gomez were close, she wasn’t close with Gomez’s other friends.
Francia went unmentioned among the notable guests at Selena’s wedding to Blanco.
Fans noticed that she shared a video on Instagram of herself dancing with a choreographer around the time of the wedding, suggesting that she was elsewhere.
