Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez, once again, make the perfect team.
“We’ve been friends since we were 7 years old when we met on Barney [& Friends]. There have been different chapters throughout our lives,” Lovato, 34, told Elle in an interview published Wednesday, October 28. “Naturally, friends are in each other’s lives heavily at times, and then sometimes you’re not in constant communication.”
Lovato and Gomez, 34, connected during their respective childhood auditions on Barney & Friends. They eventually landed their own sitcoms on Disney Channel and teamed up for 2009’s Princess Protection Program.
As the two women grew up, their paths diverged.
“Selena is someone that I’ve always loved and adored,” the “Skyscraper” singer told Elle of the duo’s reconciliation after Gomez attended Lovato’s April concert during her It’s Not That Deep Tour in Florida. “It’s really great to be in a place today where we can collaborate on things, but also just hang out and spend time together.”
In addition to catching up, Gomez enlisted Lovato for a limited edition Rare Beauty collaboration as part of the brand’s “Still Making Each Other Blush” campaign. (The Only Murders in the Building star launched her beauty brand in 2019.)
“Once a Princess, always a Princess 👑💗Best friends don’t just have each other’s backs,” Gomez wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, referring the lyrics from their “One and the Same” duet from Princess Protection Program. “They make them blush too. The Delena: Soft Pinch Blush Bundle is out now at rarebeauty.com. Includes Soft Pinch Liquid Blush in Hope + Virtue and a free blush brush.”
In preparation for her Rare Beauty debut, Lovato took a trip down memory lane of the pals’ bond.
“I went on YouTube recently and looked at our vlogs together,” she admitted to Elle. “I think that was something that really captured our innocence at the time and our drive to have a presence in front of people while still staying true to ourselves. It was really cute going down memory lane, and I showed my husband, [Jordan Lutes].”
Lovato added, “I couldn’t stick around for the whole video because I felt so cringe. But they were iconic. I was like, ‘OK, you can watch 10 seconds of this.’ I don’t know what I’m doing [in them], but it was really funny and really cute.”
Elsewhere in her Elle profile, Lovato praised Gomez for her candor about her mental health struggles.
“I really commend Selena for being open about her journey as well,” Lovato said of Gomez, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2020. “With everything that she’s dealt with, she’s such an advocate for mental health, and I think that’s so incredible.”
