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Celebs Who Absolutely Can’t Stand Selena Gomez

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Selena Gomez has built one of pop’s most loyal fanbases — but not everyone in her orbit is a fan.

The former Disney Channel star turned multi-platinum singer has spent over a decade in the public eye, and with that visibility has come a running list of famous names who’ve made their distaste for her known. In August 2021, Nicki Swift compiled the receipts in a feature titled “Celebs Who Can’t Stand Selena Gomez,” pulling together years of interviews, Instagram spats, and pointed quotes from people who’ve crossed paths with her. Some of the friction traces back to her Disney days; some of it is far more recent.

• Demi Lovato, Gomez’s childhood co-star from Barney & Friends and Disney Channel, told Harper’s Bazaar in April 2020 that despite years of an on-and-off friendship, “I’m not friends with her.”
• Stefano Gabbana, co-founder of Dolce & Gabbana, wrote “È proprio brutta!!!” (“She’s so ugly!!!”) under a Catwalk Italia Instagram post featuring Gomez in June 2018, setting off immediate fan backlash.
• Lorde publicly criticized Gomez’s 2013 single “Come & Get It” for its “When you’re ready, come and get it” lyric, calling the theme anti-feminist, which prompted a public response from Gomez.

The Demi Lovato Fallout

Gomez and Lovato’s friendship goes back further than most fans realize — the two met as kids on the set of Barney & Friends before both landed at Disney Channel. For years they were framed as inseparable, but the relationship cooled and reheated repeatedly through their teens and twenties. By 2020, Lovato made clear the on-again dynamic was over for good. “When you grow up with somebody, you’re always going to have love for them,” Lovato told Harper’s Bazaar. “But I’m not friends with her.” It’s a quieter kind of falling-out than a public feud — no diss tracks, no subtweets — but the finality of the statement left little room for reconciliation talk. It’s the same kind of quiet, permanent split covered in Celebs Who Started Out Friends And Ended Up Enemies.

The Miley Cyrus Tension

Cyrus and Gomez’s rivalry has Disney Channel roots that stretch back to the late 2000s, when both were teenage franchise faces for the network. The friction never fully cooled, and it got more complicated once both women dated Nick Jonas at different points. Over the years, parody videos and pointed Instagram commentary have kept the tension simmering publicly, even as both stars have periodically waved off the idea of a direct feud when asked about it head-on.

Lorde’s “Come & Get It” Callout

The sharpest ideological clash on the list came from Lorde in 2013. The New Zealand singer took aim at Gomez’s hit “Come & Get It,” specifically its lyric “When you’re ready, come and get it,” arguing the song’s framing of female subservience ran counter to feminist values.

“I’m sick of women being portrayed this way,” Lorde said of Gomez’s hit single — a line that turned an ordinary pop critique into a public back-and-forth.

Gomez responded publicly, saying she was disappointed that a fellow female artist would use her platform to tear another woman down rather than build one up.

Stefano Gabbana’s Instagram Comment

Nothing on this list generated faster online backlash than Stefano Gabbana’s June 2018 comment. Reacting to a runway photo collage of Gomez posted by The Catwalk Italia on Instagram, the Dolce & Gabbana co-founder wrote “È proprio brutta!!!” — “She’s so ugly!!!” — and Gomez’s fanbase mobilized almost instantly, flooding his accounts with criticism. It became one of the most-cited examples of a major fashion figure publicly attacking a pop star’s appearance in the social media era.

The Bieber Factor

No name on the list carries more baggage than Justin Bieber’s. Gomez’s on-and-off relationship with Bieber ran from 2010 to 2018, and it produced its own public flashpoints — including a 2016 Instagram argument in which Gomez called Bieber out over how he treated fans and his then-girlfriend Sofia Richie. Once Bieber married Hailey Baldwin, the friction didn’t disappear; it just shifted targets, with fans of both women keeping a years-long, largely one-sided rivalry alive online. It’s the kind of tangled celebrity crossover covered in Musicians That Are Nothing Like They Seem.

None of this has slowed Gomez down commercially — she remains one of the most-followed people on the planet and a fixture of pop’s A-list. But the list of names willing to say something less than glowing about her, on the record, keeps growing, and Lovato’s flat “I’m not friends with her” is the one line from the bunch that sounds like it isn’t getting walked back.