Selena Gomez Says She’s ‘Never Felt So Sure’ About Marrying Benny Blanco

THE RUNDOWN:

• Selena Gomez appeared on an episode of the podcast Therapuss with Jake Shane.
• During the interview, she opened up about her relationship with fiancé Benny Blanco.
• Gomez shared the story of how they met and opened up about their wedding plans.

Selena Gomez is revealing the origin story of her and Benny Blanco’s relationship.

On the August 7 episode of the podcast Therapuss with Jake Shane, Gomez shared that she and Blanco first met when she was 16, when they were potentially going to work on music together. It didn’t work out at the time (she didn’t officially release music until a year or two later), so they would just occasionally see each other around.

“I feel like he was an acquaintance, if that makes sense,” she said. “To be honest, we weren’t besties. I just thought he was nice, and then we did a few songs together. [We did] ‘Same Old Love,’ which was awesome, and we had a great time... nothing really there. And then [we did] ‘I Can’t Get Enough,’ which was with Tainy and J Balvin... didn’t get it there either. I just thought he was funny, but I didn’t think anything of it.”

They later got back in the studio for “Single Soon,” which was released in 2023. “It wasn’t our favorite,” she revealed. “I can say this because I’m marrying him. It just really wasn’t what I thought I wanted. So he just came in and I was like, ‘Oh, hi, Benny,’ and we spoke for two hours. I asked him to hook me up with anybody that he knew who was cute, and he was like, ‘Oh, we do these things, these dinner nights. You should come,’ and next thing you know, we’re dating.”

Gomez revealed that Blanco was initially apprehensive about mixing business and pleasure. “He was terrified in the beginning because it was work and it’s combining, and people are going to get mad. And I’m like, ‘I don’t give a shit. Kiss me.’”

She also opened up about how she feels about getting married. “I couldn’t be more excited,” she said, though she added that a wedding isn’t happening anytime soon. “There’s so much happening at the moment. He’s working on some projects that he has to wrap up, and we just have things we want to finish and our own personal endeavors before we get into all the nitty-gritty. I just have really never felt so sure about something, and I also don’t want to jinx it by saying that.”

Read more about Gomez and Blanco’s full relationship history here. And listen to the full podcast episode below: