Selena Gomez is clearing up online speculation that she threw shade at her friend Taylor Swift attending Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
Gomez, 33, simply commented, “lol” under an Instagram post showing Swift, 36, celebrating the Recent York Knicks’ victory on Wednesday, June 10, at Madison Square Garden with actress Mariska Hargitay.
“Woke up and was sent so many texts,” the Only Murders within the Constructing star wrote in an Instagram Story early Friday, June 12. “I’d never insult my friends, nor was it an insult. The comment was a response to the primary slide on the page.”
Gomez also clarified one other Instagram Story she had shared on Wednesday night.
“Mad respect for the sport!! Congrats to the peeps that represent. What a comeback,” she wrote of the Knicks’ narrow 107-106 victory over her favorite team, the San Antonio Spurs.
The actress and singer added, “So funny how some are all of the sudden fans though lol.”
In Friday’s post, Gomez explained that her comments were simply a joke between friends after she bet on the Spurs beating the Knicks.
“I bet my friends on the sport. The chums within the text chain I posted,” she wrote, referring to a screenshot she shared via Instagram Stories on Wednesday. “I lost but was poking fun at my opponents, my friends.”
Gomez continued, “Consider it or not, I do produce other friends in my life. But quickly forget that almost all assume otherwise.”
“Also.. it’s a basketball game,” the actress added.
Gomez and Swift first crossed paths within the late 2000s once they were dating Nick and Joe Jonas, respectively. While the relationships didn’t last, their friendship endured.
“Taylor and I dated the Jonas Brothers,” Gomez said on the “Therapuss With Jake Shane” podcast in August 2025. “I dated Nick, and he or she dated Joe.”
Taylor Swift opened up about Selena Gomez’s recent wedding, including what she and Ed Sheeran discussed in the course of the celebrations. In an interview with the U.K.’s Hits Radio Breakfast Show, which aired on Friday, October 3, Swift, 35, shone a light-weight on her catch-up with Sheeran, 34, during Gomez, 33, and Benny Blanco’s September 27 wedding. […]
“It’s cute. We were young. Everyone knows and love one another now, and it’s so cute,” she continued. “We didn’t know what we were doing [at the time]. But, yeah, she and I wish to say one of the best thing we got out of those relationships was one another.”
Gomez went on, “It was really sweet. I used to be about 15. She was about 18, and that’s when it was the crazy curly [haired] Taylor, and he or she had all these bracelets that went all the best way up [her arm],” she said. “I imagine ‘Love Story’ was the primary song she had ever played me and it wasn’t released yet. It was in a hotel room, I remember it vividly, and it was similar to … it was one in all those songs that I immediately heard and thought, ‘That is one of the crucial beautiful songs ever.’”
Swift was in attendance at Gomez’s wedding to Benny Blanco last 12 months, while Gomez is anticipated to attend Swift’s nuptials to Travis Kelce, that are rumored to happen on July 3.