Selena Gomez opened up about her recent bipolar disorder diagnosis on Miley Cyrus‘s Instagram live series, Bright Minded, on Friday. In recent years, Selena has been very candid about the mental health struggles she’s faced throughout her life. Her most recent mental health revelation came in the form of a bipolar diagnosis, from the time spent at McLean Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. During her guest appearance on her former “frenemy” Miley Cyrus’s newly launched IG live show, Selena discussed her experience finding out she was bipolar, and how she’s coping with her mental illness now.
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“Recently, I went to one of the best mental hospitals in…America, McLean’s Hospital, and I discussed that, after years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar,” Selena told Miley and the 180,000 viewers that had tuned in. “And so when I got to know more information, it actually helps me. It doesn’t scare me once I know it.”
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“I think people get scared of that, right?” she continued. “They’re like, ‘Oh!’ And I’ve seen it, I’ve seen some of it even in my own family, where I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ I’m from Texas, it’s just not known to talk about mental health. You’ve got to seem cool. And then I see anger built up in children and teenagers…because they are wanting that so badly. I just feel like when I finally said what I was going to say, I wanted to know everything about it. And it took the fear away.” Once Selena finally received her bipolar diagnosis, she said she felt “equal parts terrified and relieved—terrified because the veil was lifted but relieved that I finally had the knowledge of why I had suffered with various depressions and anxieties for so many years. I never had full awareness or answers about this condition.” Catch the full 20-minute conversation between the former Disney stars on the finale episode of Bright Minded below.
Miley Cyrus Enters The New Year With A New Look, A Mullet
Is Miley’s new look the wave for the new year?
Miley Cyrus has never been one to shy away from an experimental change in her overall aesthetic. The 27-year-old pop starlet recently took her Instagram account to reveal a brand new hairstyle that has been raising some eyebrows and being applauded by her devoted fanbase. In a series of Instagram flicks taken yesterday, the “D.R.E.A.M” performer captioned several posts, “New Hair. New Year. NEW MUSIC! ?,” with several images of the multifaceted singer/songwriter sporting a shaggy short mullet, a white t-shirt, dark-tinted sunglasses, boot-cut jeans, and black boots.
Miley Cyrus‘ anticipated seventh studio album, She Is Miley Cyrus, is expected to be released in the coming months coming off the heels of her 2019 EP, She Is Coming. Despite, Miley’s recent $300 million lawsuit settlement over her song “We Can’t Stop” and recent divorce with now ex-husband Liam Hemsworth, the former Disney child-star has remained in good spirits and in a creative space that will provide the masses with a brand new LP in the near future.
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Miley Cyrus Settles $300 Million Lawsuit Over "We Can’t Stop"
Jamaican songwriter, Flourgon, accused Cyrus & Co. of stealing his lyric.
Miley Cyrus was accused of appropriating many things during her Bangerz era, but Jamaican songwriter Flourgon wanted to hold her accountable over one appropriation in particular. Flourgon – real name Michael May – claimed that Cyrus’ 2013 hit, “We Can’t Stop”, copied a lyric from his own 1988 song, “We Run Things”.
In March 2018, May filed a $300 million copyright lawsuit against Cyrus and her label, RCA, for this alleged theft. It argued that the “We Can’t Stop” lyric, “We run things, things don’t run we,” too closely resembled his own, “We run things, things no run we.” Cyrus’ lawyers responded that the lyrics weren’t copyrightable due to their own origins in a pre-existing Jamaican Patois phrase: “wi run tings, tings nuh run wi.”
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May, Cyrus and Sony ended the lawsuit with prejudice on Friday, meaning it cannot be filed again. The details of the signed settlement agreement were not revealed to the public.
It’s quite ironic that “We Can’t Stop” was targeted for copyright infringement because in 2013, it sat right below Robin Thicke‘s “Blurred Lines” on the Hot 100 – a song which suffered one of the most notable copyright cases of the century. HNHH recently spoke to two industry professionals to explain how copyright infringement works, diving into the lawsuits against “Blurred Lines” and Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams”.