Hollywood's REAL-LIFE HEROES!

SELENA GOMEZ

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 When the pop sensation was secretly diagnosed with incurable lupus in 2014, she was warned “you could have had a stroke, you could have died.” She admits, “I locked myself away” and spent two weeks in chemotherapy in an Arizona rehab center. The autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation throughout the body ravaged Gomez’s kidneys, and she needed a life-saving transplant in 2017. 

But the following year, the mental health issues she’d been hiding from fans exploded. She was hearing voices, triggering an episode of psychosis and suicidal thoughts. “I thought the world would be better if I wasn’t there,” Selena, 31, says, noting she sought in-patient treatment four times. “It felt like all of my pain and anxiety washed over me all at once. It was one of the scariest moments of my life.”

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the Only Murders in the Building beauty found strength in the belief that publicizing her pain and anguish could help others suffering similar woes. “That really kept me going,” she says. “There could have been a time when I would have done something to hurt myself.”

TOM CRUISE