Natalie Robehmed

I think let's start by just talking a little bit about who Selena Gomez is.

Where did she come from?

I watched her documentary, My Mind and Me, last night.

And even in that, from footage when she's 24, she looks at least five years younger.

I mean, she just looks very young to me.

But I think oftentimes when a relationship is so close between mother and daughter, when the daughter tries to kind of strike out on her own and gain independence, that can cause some tension.

And at least from the outside, that seems to me what happened here, because in 2014,

Selena went ahead and she fired her mother and stepfather.

And in the documentary, Mandy said that she learned news that she was fired from TMZ.

But she told you that was she told you something else.

It's really worth emphasizing that Mandy herself was somewhat unstable.

She experienced mood swings and had what were later diagnosed as manic episodes.

She began drinking, self-medicating, as she sees it now, when Gomez was a young child.

And to me, you had this really telling anecdote that I just wanted to read.

Mandy told me a story of breaking down in tears one day as she was putting on her makeup.

Gomez began comforting her, she said.

She just started playing with my hair.

And Tifa recalled looking in the mirror and telling her daughter, I don't know what I'm supposed to do.

And Gomez replied, you'll figure it out, mommy.

You're beautiful.