Selena Gomez’s Voice Change: It Was More Than Just Nicotine

Written By Angela & Alana

For years, the Internet has been in shambles with how monotone and robotic Selena Gomez started sounding.

What happened to the charismatic and charming Selena who wowed us on Disney and won everyone over in interviews?

Selena has made everyone aware that she knows what is being said about her.

And every single time… her fans hit commenters with their favorite excuse: “she has LUPUS!!!!”

… Selena chimes in and is like “I got Botox :)” “Actually, I have a nicotine addiction.”

And coming from her biggest critics to ever exist… I actually respect that.

See… my biggest issue with Selena wasn’t that she allegedly snorting cocaine and drinking her sorrows away.

It was she always pointed the finger at someone else and crowned herself the victim.

It was always “YOU MADE ME THIS WAY.” “THEY WERE A BAD INFLUENCE.” “HE SENT TO ME REHAB.”

It was never, “guys nicotine is really addicting and it’s really hard. I hope whoever is struggling right now, knows they’re not alone.”

Which is exactly what our little Sel said about all the comments about her voice change. She said the reason why her voice is like that is because of the effects of nicotine.

This version of Selena still shows a vulnerable side of her, but without the victim act that has plagued her for decades.

Call it growing up, call it maturing… whatever it is… she should do more of it.

And Selena truly cracks me up because you couldn’t waterboard this type of information out of her back in the day.

She struggled a lot with coming to terms with her changing appearance, and the Internet’s constant criticism of how she looked certainly didn’t help, especially as she continued gaining weight and her mental health deteriorated.

She admitted that comments about her weight gain made her “bitter” and when someone is insecure and bitter, they take everything personally even when it’s not about them.

She would vocalize these thoughts on Instagram… how she won’t look like she used and little by little, she would start addressing it.

Selena got a lot of work done in the last couple of years that made her look almost unrecognizable.

And that was a hard pill to swallow when one of the main things you were known for was your beauty.

Selena nowadays will claim that she loves to age.

@people #SelenaGomez is embracing every part of getting older. Watch the full interview on the #PeopleApp ♬ original sound - People Magazine

Mind you… she is only 34. She loves to act like she’s 50.

You could also tell that she is trying to slowly undo the work she’s done.

First, she started ditching the bun and clean girl makeup.

Days after her Emmys look went viral for Selena looking very… different, she stepped out in a blowout and a face from 2018.

She even tried talking normally that day:

Then about a month later, she appeared to “remove her veneers” as many fans theorized… shifting back to how her old teeth used to look.

Just a reminder, this is how Selena’s new teeth looked like:

They looked almost too big for her mouth.

Now I’m no dentist, but I don’t think that her teeth today are her “old teeth.” Selena herself said that she had caps on her teeth and usually they shave down your teeth when they put veneers or caps in.

It looks more like she just got smaller caps that resemble her old teeth.

Point of the story is… she got a lot work done that she seems to now regret and little by little, she is trying to resort back to how she used look like.

A big topic of conversation has been the undeniable change to her voice and the way she talks. It’s almost painful to listen to.

@ellemagazine Please keep performing as much as you can—there's no such thing as too much @Selena Gomez content. #SelenaGomez #ELLEWIH ♬ original sound - ELLE (US)

And while she admits to nicotine today… keep in mind that that’s not all she was dabbling with.

As the years have went on and the perfect vanilla image that Selena tried so hard to preserve started to crack under the pressure, bits and pieces of the real Selena started to show.

The reason why everyone romanticizes a version of Selena that no longer exists is because Selena was on some sh!t back then that she’s not on right now.

While we’re on the topic… let’s talk about her confidence.

Nowadays you see Selena and she’s like an innocent puppy scared to overstep on anyone’s boundaries.

Look at the way she acts on the red carpet…

@entertainmenttonight We 𝐜𝐚𝐧'𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 of Selena Gomez at the #Emmys 🤩 #selenagomez #onlymurdersinthebuilding ♬ original sound - Entertainment Tonight

She’s like stumbling around all shy saying “I don’t know what I’m doing” and telling the photographers, “I’m sorry” and “This is awkward.”

With the way she’s acting, you wouldn’t know it’s her 50th year in Hollywood.

When people compare this Selena to the Selena from 2016 who walked like she owned the world and as if she had at least 72% of the world’s confidence in her back pocket… it’s like what happened to her?

@armyofselenagomez

11 years ago today, @SelenaGomez released Same Old Love as the 2nd single from Revival! The song reached No. 5 on Billboard Hot 100, topped Pop Airplay chart & is 3x Platinum by RIAA! Watch her iconic, glamorous performance of 'Same Old Love' at the 2015 American Music Awards!💫 #selenagomez #alexrusso #selena #gomez #sel #selenamariegomez #breathtaking #SameOldLove #stage #teen #girl #model #princess #pretty #lovely #beautiful #dazzling #smile #fabulous #gorgeous #charming #attractive #adorable #performance #legs #longlegs #knees #revival #popstar #armyofselenagomez

♬ original sound - Wasa Miroshnichenko

Time and time again, I tell you that this is a person who struggled badly with drug abuse.

My source used to tell me that Selena’s confidence all came from cocaine. It’s something she actively did and it was how she got through those years in Hollywood because she was doing something that was not authentic to her: being a pop star.

So in all fairness, everyone loved the Selena who was on coke.

Zacharie Scheurer/Associated Press

She was a completely different person and she was very erratic. She was messy, but memorizing. Confident, but deeply insecure. Strutting around, but extremely sad.

And according to several of my sources, whenever Selena would try to wean off the drugs, she would take up smoking.

If you recall, when she left rehab for the first time in 2014, she was seen buying cigarettes.

Back in the day, that was next level scandalous. I remember getting death threats from her fans because how dare I point out that she was smoking. You could imagine how they felt when we were saying she was on coke. Fun times.

And yes that is a bindi she’s wearing. She was Indian that year.

When she went back to rehab two years later in 2016, she was also seen smoking.

Anytime she would wean off the hard drugs, she would start smoking.

So in 2020 when she had a lot of health issues and it was a combination of everything she’s been through, that’s when she started vaping a lot.

You could see it in the background of many of her stories, but it was first prevalent at the 2019 AMAs.

And over the last 2 years, she has been more obvious with her vaping even smoking the day of her wedding.

And today… it’s not just vaping, but she drinks a lot and has been seen stumbling drunk on many different occasions.

She even makes a joke about it on TikTok. We talked a lot about that in our recent video: The Mystery Behind Selena Gomez’s Changing Face (Emmys look and more)

If I were to divide Selena’s life into two distinct periods, 2019 would be the dividing line.

Forget BC and AD. When it comes to Selena, we're working with B19 and A19: Before 2019 and After 2019.

Because everything before that year belongs to one era, and everything that followed belongs to another.

If you want to read about the spiral that happened toward the end of 2019 and beginning of 2020—a spiral that she gave the inside look to in her documentary My Mind & Me—then check out these 2 specific posts that detail the 2019 AMAs, her trip to Nepal, an alleged OD, Selena secretly living in a rehab, secret hospital trips, and so much more.

The Truth Behind Selena Gomez's Disappearance during the "Rare" era (Health Update)
Where Selena Gomez Has Been: An Extremely Sad Update on Selena's Health

Fun fact, that new source from July 2020 is actually a main source and a good friend today. Everything she’s said has only gotten confirmed.

In February 2020, the Selena clone allegations first began. Allegations that are almost taken as fact nowadays thanks to the TikTok conspiracy theorists.

Selena Gomez Fans Think Selena Has Been Cloned

It was years of bitterness, self sabotage, and just overall doing the wrong thing time and time again that caught up to her.

And that’s how we ended up with Grandma Happy Selena today. A Selena who’s married to someone nobody ever imagined she’d end up with, and who’s now volunteering personal information that, once upon a time, you could’ve shot her in both kneecaps and she STILL wouldn’t have told you.

Had this Selena existed in 2016, she would have a made a video talking about her drug struggles or the alleged meth both she and a certain someone bonded over when they got back together.

A drug high that was romanticized by the general public as “getting back together with your first love.”

It’s crazy because she was supposed to explore that in her 2022 documentary, but they cut out all that footage and then left everyone with a very confusing gap and lack of explanation in the documentary.

They show you Selena crying, dealing with a psychosis episode, health issues, angry outbursts, and so much more. BUT … they never show you how she got there.

It was then revealed that an hour was cut out.

So yeah… I like this Selena.

This Selena is happier.

This Selena is a lot more chill because she’s not pouring her energy into being someone she’s not and she’s not set out to destroy others either.

Think about it… all those years Selena was camped on social media liking hateful posts, provoking fans to attack her ex, and just whining about her victimized life… how did she look like?

Like a big buffoon.

That bitterness inside her manifested on her face.

And sorry but marriage lowkey saved her because she wanted to be married and that extreme loneliness that came with her grieving the version of herself that thought she would be married to someone else, was eating her alive.

Whether you wanna argue that it’s not healthy for marriage to “save” someone or make them happy… I argue that it’s what she needed.

It’s also the longest we’ve gone without a crumb of her shading a specific someone.

Anyway… that’s all for this post. I hope you guys enjoyed! Let me know what you think down in the comments below and what you want to see next <3

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