Angelina Chapin

But I think the main takeaway I had from the reporting was just...

Mandy was very controlling and Selena just didn't.

She was too famous to need to put up with that, frankly.

They look like sisters on the red carpet.

They look like they're sort of having fun, relatively the same age.

You know, this is a cliche you hear about teen parents, but they truly are growing up together.

And you have to think of the tension that's arising when you have someone like Mandy who wanted to be an actor, if not famous, and then her daughter becomes that.

The only clout she has is Selena, which is not a great dynamic, right?

When you're a parent and she self-identified to me kind of tongue-in-cheek as a nepo parent.

Like, that's her currency.

That's sort of, this is a woman who had so many ambitions for herself, who is from this tough-knuckle background, and she's always being reduced to...

Selena's mom.

And I think that weighs on her.

We'll get into it more, but with the business they start together, you can see that she's trying to say, no, no, this is, I'm Mandy.

This is my thing.

As you said, I think Natalie, her mom, Mandy, was diagnosed with bipolar at one point.

And Selena also is diagnosed with bipolar.

And she's also dealing with lupus, which is, you know, a physical health issue.

And so behind the scenes, she's in and out of rehab facilities.

It's not always clear.