We’ve heard a lot about the ins and outs of Selena Gomez‘s kidney transplant.
She and donor friend Francia Raisa have both been very open about their experiences — but we’ve heard less about how it affected their families.
From the sound of it, Selena’s momma was not nearly as calm as the two patients!
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Mandy Teefey opened up to Entertainment Tonight, saying:
“That was probably one of the hardest things to ever experience as a parent, and especially when there were complications, and it was just me and her, and she had to go in.”
The extra stress of worrying about her own baby AND someone else’s may have been a bit too much for Mandy. She admitted:
“I was not only carrying the weight first as the mother, but I also felt the weight for Francia and her mother and her family. I think I’m banned from Cedars. I went to both sides of the towers. For some reason they were in different towers, and every little thing, I was monitoring, like, yelling and freaking out. It was pretty rough. God bless any of the families that have kids with ongoing illnesses because the strength that those families have is insane.”
Um, doesn’t her child have an ongoing illness?
Mandy says Selena “will always have lupus,” but the hospital was a different league of stress:
“Hopefully that was a one-time thing for us.”
Speaking of Raisa, Mandy also opens up about how good a friend she’s always been to her daughter. She recalls:
“She was one of the first people that was not part of the [Disney] channel that introduced herself to Selena and made her feel comfortable at the Teen Choice Awards…
She walked up and she introduced herself. She was on that ABC show and she was already established and everything, and she just walked up to Selena and gave her a hug and made her feel welcome, and that resonated with me, because it’s such a tough industry and you don’t really get that a lot.”
How sweet! No wonder she was doubly concerned!
[Image via FayesVision/Andres Otero/WENN.]
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