Selena Gomez opens up about nicotine addiction, admitting “it’s really hard” to quit vaping after her voice changes

No Escape’s singer Selena Gomez revealed in her recent Insta story on October 18 how vaping and nicotine changed her voice. She went on to explain how hard it is to quit nicotine and warned other people how “it’s just not worth it.”

Sharing her struggle, she said, “I’m not gonna be able to change my voice.” Explaining her addiction, she confessed, “I vaped nicotine a lot.”

Gomez, 34, went on, “Nicotine is so hard to quit, and I think I just wanted to say, if you’re going through it or if you’re even trying to vape, it’s just not worth it.”


Then she laughed and added, “It’s so stupid. It changed my voice. So if you guys don’t like listening to my voice, that’s totally understandable. I don’t mind. Just don’t listen to it.”

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But on the other hand, she also revealed, “But I am really excited because I stopped [vaping] and I just hope I can keep it up. It’s really hard, but I know if you are going through something, you can get through it too.”

She talked about her changed voice earlier too. In a live session on Instagram, the singer was asked about the change of her voice. Then she answered, “I’ve gotten this question a few times. The voice thing.” She blamed it on throat swells and said, "I get weird. My throat kind of swells inside sometimes. That’s all.”

Gomez’s lupus diagnosis and kidney transplant

Gomez, married to Benny Blanco, talked about her health struggles previously too. In 2015, she told Billboard that she had been diagnosed with lupus and had undergone chemotherapy. “I could’ve had a stroke,” she said. She also explained why she had taken a break from public life.

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Then, Gomez underwent a kidney transplant because of complications from lupus. She announced the procedure on Instagram and said her friend Francia Raisa had donated the kidney. “It was what I needed to do for my overall health,” Gomez wrote.

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What the singer has shared about her mental health

Gomez has also struggled with her mental health. In a May 2024 interview with TODAY, she said, “Having to take steps to make yourself healthy takes a lot of work.” She publicly discussed her bipolar disorder diagnosis in 2020. Speaking to Miley Cyrus on Instagram’s Bright Minded, Gomez said learning more about the condition helped her. “It doesn’t scare me once I know it,” she said.

The singer addressed how she gained weight because of lupus. She told in an episode of the 2023 Apple TV+ series “Dear…”, “My weight would constantly fluctuate because I would be on certain medications.”

In her husband’s “Friends Keep Secrets” podcast, she also shared how her partner helped her and said, “It is helpful to have a partner that will understand where maybe the temperature is at, and meet you where you are, and then you kind of gradually understand what’s happening.”

Alongside, she is also the founder of the makeup brand Rare Beauty. Through her beauty brand, Gomez also supports mental health initiatives through the Rare Impact Fund. Over the past five years, the fund has supported 30 nonprofit partner organizations across five continents, trained 208,000 educators and reached 3.5 million young people, according to Fast Company.