Selena Gomez Mom: Mandy Teefy Speaks Out About Kidney Donor Francia Raisa [VIDEO]
Selena Gomez's mother, Mandy Teefy, shared a heartfelt message with her fans and followers on Instagram days ago in regard to her daughter's kidney transplant earlier this summer.
After the 25-year-old singer and actress went public with her shocking surgery, Teefy took to social media and reacted to Gomez's hospital photo of herself and friend Francia Raisa, who donated her kidney to Gomez several weeks ago.
“This picture is one of the most breathtaking images that will live with me forever,” she wrote, according to a report on September 18 by Hollywood Life. “For all those moments of not knowing if we were going up or going down, I can always come back to this picture and know we can always make it back up. As a mother, I was helpless, scared and all I could do was pray for both of them, Francia’s beautiful family. I am pretty sure I am banned from that hospital. Mama Bear was in high gear.”
“Selena gained a kidney, I was able to keep my little girl, but I also gained another daughter…thank you to everyone who was there for Sel, Francia and our families,” she continued. “We survived from all the love, prayers and God.”
Gomez told fans about her kidney transplant last week, just over one year after taking three-months off from her career due to emotionally crippling side effects of Lupus.
"I’m very aware some of my fans had noticed I was laying low for part of the summer and questioning why I wasn’t promoting my new music, which I was extremely proud of," she wrote.
"I found out I needed to get a kidney transplant due to my Lupus and was recovering. It was what I needed to do for my overall health," she explained. "There aren’t words to describe how I can possibly thank my beautiful friend Francia Raisa. She gave me the ultimate gift and sacrifice by donating her kidney to me. I am incredibly blessed."
