Selena Gomez took a trip down memory lane as she recalled her very first kiss with a fellow Disney Channel star during a new interview with W Magazine.
The newly-engaged actress, 32, did not shy away from discussing her love life while reflecting on ‘probably’ having ‘too many crushes’ when she was younger.
‘Jesse McCartney—when Beautiful Soul came out—that was just life-changing for me. I loved Chad Michael Murray from One Tree Hill. I also just had crushes more in real life than on actors or musicians,’ she gushed.
The Lose You to Love Me hitmaker, who recently accepted record producer Benny Blanco’s proposal after over a year of dating, went on to note that her ‘first kiss was on TV.’
‘I was 11 or 12 years old, and I guest-starred on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, which starred Dylan and Cole Sprouse. It was with Dylan, and it was really funny because both of us were so young. We were figuring out how to kiss. I had never done it, and I was so scared,’ she told the outlet.
Gomez noted that she didn’t have her first ‘real-life one’ until she was 14 with a ‘boy named Juan.’
Selena Gomez took a trip down memory lane as she recalled her very first kiss with a fellow Disney Channel star as a teenager during her new interview with W Magazine
Back in 2020, she joked that kissing Sprouse was ‘one of the worse days of’ her life because she had a big crush on Dylan’s twin brother, Cole.
‘I thought we were going to be together,’ Gomez said on The Kelly Clarkson Show of the Riverdale star.
Selena, who hadn’t yet started appearing on her own Disney show Wizards of Waverly Place, played Gwen, a classmate who had to lock lips with one of the leads in the school play.
‘I actually leaned in to kiss him, and I had my eyes closed a little too early and I ended up missing, like, half of his lips,’ she told Twist Magazine on the on-screen smooch. ‘So it ended up being the most awkward kiss in the world.’
During her interview for W Magazine, the performer also spoke about what drew her to the Spanish-language musical thriller, Emilia Pérez, for which she’s nominated for a Golden Globe.
‘Pure curiosity. I love working with incredible filmmakers—that’s usually what I’m drawn to the most. When I read the script, I thought it was extremely thought-provoking, visceral, and groundbreaking. But some films may not turn out that way. I really felt that Audiard is just so spectacular that the movie was in really good hands,’ she raved.
The Wizards of Waverly Place alum also said she was ‘extremely proud to speak Spanish’ in the film.
‘I was nervous, but I have released a whole album in Spanish before. I’m more comfortable singing in Spanish, so doing an entire film was a little intimidating,’ she admitted.