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Gomez, 24, who has more than 113 million Instagram followers,
also said in an interview published on Thursday that she was
freaked out by her social media obsession and no longer has the
Instagram app on her phone.
“As soon as I became the most followed person on Instagram, I
sort of freaked out. It had become so consuming to me. It’s what
I woke up to and went to sleep to. I was an addict," Gomez told
Vogue magazine in a cover story for its April edition.
The former Disney Channel singer and actress made headlines last
August when she abruptly quit her "Revival" world tour, saying
she needed to take time off to deal with panic attacks and
depression.
She told Vogue she entered a treatment program for three months.
“My self-esteem was shot. I was depressed, anxious. I started to
have panic attacks right before getting onstage, or right after
leaving the stage. Basically I felt I wasn’t good enough, wasn’t
capable. I felt I wasn’t giving my fans anything, and they could
see it — which, I think, was a complete distortion," she said.
Gomez said she had also found it hard - as have other young
stars like Miley Cyrus and Lindsay Lohan - to shake off her
perky "Wizards of Waverly Place" persona from her Disney days.
"For a guy there’s a way to rebel that can work for you,” she
said. "But for a woman, that can backfire. It’s hard not to be a
cliché, the child star gone wrong."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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