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Selena Gomez says her breaking up with Justin Bieber was the \u201cbest thing\u201d that ever happened to her.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old singer, who split from Bieber 28, in 2018, makes the declaration on her new Apple + documentary \u2018My Mind and Me\u2019.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cEverything was so public. I felt haunted by a past relationship that no one wanted to let go of.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen I just moved past it, and I wasn\u2019t afraid anymore.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I had to go through the worst possible heartbreak ever and then just forgetting everything at the drop of the hand, it was really confusing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I just think that needed to happen and ultimately it was the best thing that ever happened to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gomez dated Bieber on-off for eight years and the split inspired her 2020 songs \u2018Lose You to Love Me\u2019, which she says took her 45 minutes to write.<\/p>\n
She added on the show: \u201cIt\u2019s about more than a lost love. It\u2019s me learning to choose myself, to choose life, but also hoping that people can find grace and peace in that too. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe song is about knowing that you completely lost every part of who you are just to rediscover yourself again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bieber started dating his now-wife Hailey Baldwin, 25, just after they split and the month after Bieber married Baldwin, Gomez reportedly suffered a breakdown connected to her lupus and entered treatment for her mental health.<\/p>\n
Gomez recently told Rolling Stone magazine: \u201cI grew up thinking I would be married at 25. It wrecked me that I was nowhere near that \u2013 couldn\u2019t be farther from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She recently threw herself a lavish wedding-themed 30th birthday and said about the do being attended by celebrities including Cara Delevingne: \u201cWe had lovely drinks, and it was beautiful, and then my friend Cara comes in and brings strippers. So I would like to say it was a mixture of sophisticated and hysterical.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other guests at the party included Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, Camila Cabello and Selena Gomez\u2019s younger sister, Gracie.<\/p>\n