“Selena Gomez and Francia Raisa, the singer’s friend who donated a kidney to her earlier this year, have given a joint interview about the procedure.
“In the interview, with US television show Today, Gomez describes the kidney transplant as a “life or death” move.
“”My kidneys were just done,” she said, in her first interview after leaving hospital. “That was it and I didn’t want to ask a single person in my life. And she volunteered and did it.”
“Gomez received the transplant as part of her ongoing fight against lupus, an autoimmune disease that often attacks the kidneys.
“The 25-year-old singer has publicly battled lupus for the past two years, sharing that she also underwent chemo as part of her treatment.”
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