Selena Gomez Announces Another Social Media Break: "I’m Focusing on What Really Matters"

Selena Gomez is taking another social media break to focus on “what really matters.”

The "Only Murders In the Building" star broke the news in an Instagram Story and announced, “I’m off social media for a while. I’m focusing on what really matters,”.

The story was accompanied by a photo of boyfriend producer Benny Blanco goofing around with two young children.

In October 2023, Gomez announced a similar social timeout due to the “hate, violence and terror” around the world, adding “People being tortured and killed or any act of hate towards any one group is horrific” and that “ALL people” need to be protected, “especially children.” 

That post came weeks after the Hamas-Israel war broke out on October 7, kicking off a three-month massacre that has killed more than 22,000 Palestinians.

Gomez did not specify what prompted her latest social pause, though it came shortly after she took to the comments section on Instagram to respond to rumors about the viral Golden Globes moment she shared with pal Taylor Swift at the Golden Globe Awards. 

The rampant, gossipy speculation about what the two women were discussing reached such a fevered pitch that Gomez felt it necessary to explain what she, Swift, and Swift’s seatmate, Miles Teller’s Wife, Keleigh, were discussing.

“Was Selena Gomez Gossiping About Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet at Golden Globes?” asked an E! News headline on Instagram, to which Gomez responded: “Noooooo I told Taylor about two of my friends who hooked up. Not that that’s anyone business.”

Gomez previously announced a social pause in February 2023 — telling followers on TikTok “I’m too old for this” — after telling InStyle in January 2022 that, “Taking a break from social media was the best decision that I’ve ever made for my mental health.” 

At the time the singer/actress who currently has 429 million Instagram followers explained that she’d created a system “where I still don’t have my passwords. And the unnecessary hate and comparisons went away once I put my phone down. I’ll have moments where that weird feeling will come back, but now I have a much better relationship with myself.”