“As if the person who gave you their kidney is some random acquaintance.”
Back in 2017, actor Francia Raisa donated her kidney to her close friend of 10 years, Selena Gomez.
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Selena had been diagnosed with lupus six years earlier, an autoimmune disease that causes the body to attack healthy parts of itself.
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Prior to the transplant, the star had said that her own kidneys “were just done” due to lupus-related organ damage.
Speaking on the Today Show after the surgery, Francia recalled: “[Selena] goes: ‘I don’t know what to do, the [donor wait] list is seven to 10 years long,’ and it just vomited out of me. I was like: ‘Of course I’ll get tested.”
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“I didn’t want to ask a single person in my life,” Selena said at the time. “The thought of asking somebody to do that was really difficult for me. She volunteered and did it.”
The singer also said that it was “unbelievable” that Francia turned out to be a match.
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Selena revealed that she’d had the kidney transplant in September 2017, when she shared a sweet photo of herself and Francia holding hands in their hospital beds as they prepared for surgery.
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