Behind every star is a team of managers, assistants and more that keep the Hollywood machine running and Gomez is no different. When Gomez’s life was explored in her recent Apple TV documentary, “My, Mind & Me,” fans got a rare insight into her life and career from a behind-the-scenes standpoint. RELATED: Selena Gomez Accused Of Lying About Writing Her Hit Song After Gwen Stefani’s Demo Of The Track Leaks
What it’s like to work for Selena Gomez.
Gomez has a tight-knit team and, given how much the star has survived over the years, she is clearly backed by a dedicated support system.
Selena Gomez’s staff must keep up with her rigid schedule.
In 2016, Gomez’s longtime friend and hairstylist, Marisa Marino, shared the busy schedule Gomez and her staff kept while the singer was on her Revival world tour. RELATED: 8 Reasons People Are Concerned About Selena Gomez — From Alleged Lies About Her Health To Her Messy Feuds “10:30am: Meet up with whoever is awake for either avocado toast, a workout or spa time! We all love a good steam room.” “5pm: Start hair and makeup for Selena for her meet and greet,” she wrote. “6:30 pm: The makeup artist and I have dinner at catering while Selena does her meet and greet.” “8pm: Begin hair and makeup for the show.” When Gomez’s show begins, Marino’s work is also just starting. “There are 4 different quick changes throughout the show so I go into the pit area and jam out and then go back into the quick change room one song before she comes off stage to change,” Marino explained. The team’s night doesn’t end until well into the early hours of the morning as they have to ride in Gomez’s tour bus to the next city for up to 15 hours after they leave the venue at 11:30 pm. RELATED: Why Selena Gomez’s Mom Refuses To Watch Her Documentary Despite Fixing Their Estranged Relationship
Employees have to step in to help Gomez when needed.
Whoever works with her will have to show empathy and compassion toward her mental health, something she has struggled with for years. “I’m going to be very open with everybody about this: I’ve been to four treatment centers,” Gomez told Rolling Stone in an interview that when she hit her early twenties is when things “got really dark.” “When I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad.” In Gomez’s documentary, one of her close friends, Raquelle Stevens, revealed that the people close to her had to have an intervention. RELATED: The Lesson To Learn From How Aaron Carter & Selena Gomez Were Treated After Being Honest About Their Struggles “We had to have a really serious conversation with her, of like, ‘What is going on?’” “Her answer was also like, ‘I don’t know. I can’t explain it. I wish you could feel what it feels like to be in my head,’” said Stevens. “I just remember it being very chaotic and she was hearing all of these voices. They just kept getting louder and louder and louder. That triggered some kind of psychotic break.” “If anybody saw what I saw, in the state that she was in at the mental hospital, they wouldn’t have recognized her at all.” RELATED: Selena Gomez’s Two Rules For Justin Bieber In Their Relationship — And How Breaking Them Led To Their Breakup
Sometimes working for Gomez means knowing when to quit.
Gomez’s former assistant Theresa Marie Mingus revealed in her documentary that a key part of her time working for Gomez involved intervening when the singer suffered a breakdown during her Revival tour — which ended up being canceled before the artist completed her scheduled performances. “At one point, she’s like, ‘I don’t want to be alive right now. I don’t want to live,’” Mingus revealed during Gomez’s documentary. “And I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ It was one of those moments where you look in her eyes and there’s nothing there.” “It was just pitch black. And it’s so scary. You’re like, ‘OK, f–k this. This needs to end. We need to go home.’” RELATED: Hailey Bieber Reveals Conversation With Selena Gomez After Marrying Justin Bieber Taylor Haynes is a writer based in Chicago. She writes for Entertainment & News at YourTango. You can find her on Instagram here.
