Charlie Puth Says Selena Messed Him Up
Charlie Puth says his relationship with Selena Gomez “really” messed him up. The 26-year-old singer said in the February 3rd issue of Billboard that his “short-lived” but “impactful” fling with Gomez ended because the former Disney Channel star was hung up on someone else.
Puth was linked to Gomez in 2016 after collaborating with the 25-year-old singer and actress on the single “We Don’t Talk Anymore.” The song appears on Puth’s debut studio album, Nine Track Mind.
“It’s about a particular moment in my life, when someone very close to me wanted the attention of somebody else,” Puth shared. “When I found that out and we ended it, I might have done some shady things too, and she might have asked me, ‘How long has this been going on?’”
“I don’t kiss and tell, but the only way a song like that can come across as real is if there’s something else going on behind the scenes,” he said. “And that’s what was happening [with Gomez]. Very short-lived, very small, but very impactful. And it really messed me up.”