Selena Gomez discusses Mental Health in the first trailer for ‘My Mind & Me,’ an Apple documentary
The film offers an intimate look at the star’s life over a six-year period.
Selena Gomez is pulling back the curtain on her private life.
On Monday, Apple debuted the first official trailer for the upcoming documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me. The documentary, directed by Alek Keshishian, chronicles the superstar’s rise to fame and, according to Apple, will offer a “uniquely raw and intimate” look at Gomez’s life that “spans her six-year journey into a new light.”
“Everything that I have gone through, it’s going to be there. I’m just making it my friend now,” Gomez says in the intimate and vulnerable trailer, which dropped on World Mental Health Day in support of global mental health education and awareness. “I know this is the beginning for me.”
Gomez has been open about her mental health difficulties in recent years. Gomez attended a mental health facility in 2014 after being diagnosed with lupus, and she later announced in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Gomez also underwent a kidney transplant in 2017 as a result of lupus problems and adverse effects.
In an Elle cover story published last year, the actress and singer reflected on her struggles in the public eye: “My lupus, my kidney transplant, chemotherapy, having a mental illness, going through very public heartbreaks — these were all things that honestly should have taken me down,” she explained. “Every time I went through something, I was like, ‘What else? What else am I going to have to deal with?’”
In recent years, Gomez has sought to help others, in part through charitable donations tied to her business ventures.
Selena + Chef, her HBO Max culinary show, raises funds for nonprofit organizations, and her Rare Beauty business includes the Rare Impact Fund, which seeks to raise $100 million for mental health services over the next ten years. Gomez also launched Wondermind, a mental health platform.
Keshishian previously directed the critically acclaimed documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare, and this is Apple’s second production with producers Lighthouse Management + Media and Interscope Films, following the Emmy-nominated documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me releases on Nov. 4.