Selena Gomez revealed she had to relearn “certain words” while on a medication “detox” after her 2018 psychosis episode and bipolar disorder diagnosis.
“It was just that I was gone,” the “My Mind & Me” star told Rolling Stone for her December 2022 cover story, published Thursday.
“There was no part of me that was there anymore,” she continued.
Gomez, 30, went on to explain how her psychiatrist “guided” her back to herself.
“I had to detox, essentially, from the medications I was on,” the singer said. “I had to learn how to remember certain words. I would forget where I was when we were talking.
“It took a lot of hard work for me to (a) accept that I was bipolar, but (b) learn how to deal with it because it wasn’t going to go away,” she continued.
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Instagram/Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Getty Images
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.FilmMagic
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Instagram/Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Instagram/Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Instagram/Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.Instagram/Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.
Selena Gomez had to relearn “certain words” while on a “detox” from her medication.AppleTV+
Gomez initially ended up in a treatment center after hearing voices and becoming paranoid — although she only “remembers snippets” of her time there.
The actress told the magazine that she was “unrecognizable” to her friends at the time and spent “several months” in treatment before “walking out of psychosis.”
Gomez told Rolling Stone she was medicated after a 2018 psychosis episode and bipolar diagnosis.AMANDA CHARCHIAN FOR ROLLING STO
Gomez told Rolling Stone she was medicated after a 2018 psychosis episode and bipolar diagnosis.Amanda Charchian for Rolling Sto
While she was prescribed multiple medications, Gomez said she has since been pulled off all but two of them.
The former Disney Channel star made headlines for her Connecticut rehab stay in February 2018.
Gomez was taken off all but two of the medications initially prescribed post-diagnosis.Amanda Charchian for Rolling Sto
Gomez’s time at Privé-Swiss was not her first experience in treatment, as she was previously treated at Arizona’s Dawn at the Meadows facility and a Texas center in 2014 and 2016, respectively, for anxiety and depression.
Although the “Only Murders in the Building” star has been vocal about her mental health struggles over the years, she is baring all in “My Mind & Me.”
The former Disney Channel star shares her mental health struggles in “My Mind & Me.”AppleTV+
“It’s very vulnerable,” Gomez explained to Vogue on Tuesday of the upcoming AppleTV+ documentary. “To be honest, it can be a little uncomfortable even watching some of it.”
The pop star compared the experience to “sacrificing” herself, adding, “I definitely want to go into hiding after this comes out.”
“Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me” debuts Nov. 4.
