Selena Gomez admits she was 'very reactive' in past relationships
'Only Murders In The Building' star Selena Gomez "needed to collect herself" after being "very reactive" with previous partners.
Selena Gomez has admitted she was "guilty" of being "very reactive" in past relationships.
The 32-year-old actress and singer - who is engaged to musician Benny Blanco - has reflected on her previous romances, and how she needed time to "collect" herself before finding love again.
Appearing on the 'On Purpose with Jay Shetty' podcast for a joint interview, she said: "I’ve been guilty though to start.
"I think for me, I necessarily felt like in other situations of mine I was very reactive.
"I think that’s why I was alone for five years because I really needed to collect myself."
The 'Only Murders In The Building' star feels like she needed to mature before being in the right place to be with Benny.
She explained: "I think in the past, that’s why I said to him all the time 10 years ago it’s not that I wouldn't have wanted to be with you, I just wouldn’t have been in the right headspace, and I don’t think you deserved what I had gone through before.
"I’ve learned a lot of lessons and I’ve made mistakes and I just want this to be right. So for me, that was a lesson that I had to learn."
Selena - who has previously dated the likes of Nick Jonas and Justin Bieber - pointed out that Benny's patience has helped her change her mentality and not react to quickly to certain things.
She added: "I think girls can equally want to be right. For me, it was really difficult in the past and he's made it unbelievably easy so that if I even get to the point where I’m so frustrated, he's like very quick to understand."
The newly-engaged lovebirds are looking forward to getting married, but they recently admitted they aren't rushing into their big day, and 37-year-old musician Benny joked his bride-to-be Selena is constantly coming up with a whole new idea.
He told Rolling Stone magazine in a joint interview: “I think every day she’s planned a new wedding in her head.
“We’re very much ‘take it one day at a time’ type of people. We’re still not over this moment.
"Literally, while you were talking, she was sitting there staring at her ring.”
