Selena Gomez is a well-known American singer, actress, and producer. While she may have portrayed a witch in the television series "Wizards of Waverly Place," it is important to clarify that Selena Gomez is not a real witch in the literal sense of the word. In the show, Selena Gomez played the character of Alex Russo, a young wizard who is training to become a powerful magician. The fantasy series revolves around the lives of the Russo family, who own a sandwich shop in New York City and also practice magic. Throughout the episodes, Alex and her two brothers engage in various magical adventures and face challenges that test their skills. However, outside of the fictional world of "Wizards of Waverly Place," there is no evidence to suggest that Selena Gomez practices witchcraft or identifies as a witch.

Selena Gomez Might Be a Legitimate Witch

I have a theory after reading Vogue’s April cover story about Selena Gomez and need everyone to sit with me for a minute while we talk about it. Selena Gomez, beloved child actor-turned-adult actor-slash-musician, might be a witch.

The below has been taken out of order, but definitely not out of context.

1. “At thirteen she moved to Los Angeles with her mother and stepfather, and the following year Disney gave her the lead in Wizards of Waverly Place, a sitcom about a family of wizards who own a downtown Manhattan restaurant.” This is merely to set the scene, but I’d like to remind you all that art imitates life.

2. “On an unusually wet and windy evening in Los Angeles, Selena Gomez shows up at my door with a heavy bag of groceries.” That’s funny. “Unusually wet and windy” is the unwritten Step 1 of any potion I’ve ever successfully concocted.

3. “I already have chicken simmering in green salsa, poblano peppers blackening on the flames of the stove, and red cabbage wilting in a puddle of lime juice.” The makings of some sort of tincture, clearly. The healing powers of poultry are best extracted through what non-magic folk to as “broth,” which I’m sure she asked him to begin prior to her arrival and will be later used in a small quantity to further prolong Gomez’s youth.

Blacking on the flames of the stove. It’s as though this writer wasn’t even trying to hide it. But perhaps he knows that we never suspect what’s literally right under our nose.

4. “All we need are Gomez’s famous cheesy potatoes—so bad they’re good, she promises.” We call this eyeballs gratin in my house? You can’t see the calories but they can see you.

5. “I bet you didn’t think we were going to get this real,” she says, and when I tell her that real isn’t the first word that springs to mind when faced with these ingredients, she responds with the booming battle-ax laugh that offers a foretaste of Gomez’s many enchanting incongruities.” She’s testing the writer of her profile here, challenging him. And the challenge was accepted. A mere mortal standing before a witch, one who possesses otherworldly powers including the ability to look beautiful with slicked-back wet hair without getting Tiny-Head-Big-Face Syndrome.* This man has no choice but to admit that he’s terrified. “Gross!” was likely the first word that sprang to his mind. “HAHAHAHHA,” she responded.

*Tiny-Head-Big-Face Syndrome is the technical name for what you/I look like in the mirror at the hair salon just after a shampoo and right before the cut.

6. “Gomez queues up a playlist—Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers.”

Yes, to lull the the writer into a trance-like state.

7. As I slip an apron over her mane of chocolate-brown hair, for which Pantene has paid her millions…I wonder whether her legions have felt for years the same sharp pang of protectiveness that I’m feeling at present.”

Her hair is made of chocolate, so that should be a giveaway.

Anyway, here is where the tables have turned on the writer without him even realizing, because Selena Gomez put him under her spell. He thinks he wants to protect her, specifically, but really, she is amassing people for round two of Dumbledore’s Army.

[Break here to explicitly state that I think it’s admirable how much Selena Gomez cares about her fans, and I can only imagine that her candid discussion about depression, anxiety and the benefits of therapy will help to further reduce societal stigma around the conversation of mental health.]

8. In the tearoom at the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel, little girls in pinafores and pink high-tops sit on heavily tasseled sofas and drink sparkling apple juice out of champagne flutes. One by one they approach our table, shyness replaced by rapturous giggles as Gomez praises their pretty dresses and invites them to sit with her for a picture. Her seemingly infinite patience with these intrusions is something between a habit and a principle. “Somebody I used to hang out with would always get very frustrated with me,” she says, presumably referring to Bieber, whose name she will not utter…”presumably referring to Bieber, whose name she will not utter.” Hello, excuse me, this is clearly Voldemort. (Except no way is Gomez scared to use his name. She’s just reluctant to give Voldemort anymore press after his cameo in the second Lego Movie.)

9. Doll-like and startled in pictures but almost breathtakingly at ease in person, Gomez was once described by her good friend Taylor Swift as “both 40 years old and seven years old.” Hi, how can you be both 40 years old and seven years old at the same time without magic thanks point proven.

10. No child star enjoys easy passage through the morass of adolescence, and Gomez struggled to shed her blandly perky Wizards persona. For sure, but also, it’s hard to shed a wizard’s persona when you are a wizard.

11. “I grew up around adults, but in terms of getting out, having friends—at times I really didn’t know anything but my job.” Just like Harry 🙁

12. “There’s a very warm and inclusive way that Selena has with her fans,” Vevers says. “That’s the nature of her power. What fashion house wouldn’t want to tap into that?” Vevers refers to Stuart Vevers, Coach’s creative director. (Selena is collaborating with Coach on a line of accessories.) It’s really nice to see people in the industry embrace wizards/witches like he did her by endorsing her magical power.

13. Gomez currently lives in an Airbnb in the Valley and honestly doesn’t get out much, except for long drives with her girlfriends: a realtor, a techie, some folks from church. “I think seventeen people have my phone number right now,” she says. “Maybe two are famous.” Yeah, and maybe the rest are witches who have phones because they think it’s funny, but the wizarding community doesn’t use phones, obviously.

14. “I always end up feeling like shit when I look at Instagram. Which is why I’m kind of under the radar, ghosting it a bit.” Instagram steals your soul and witches are very, very sensitive to soul-stealing, especially with dementors flying around and shit. You can never be too careful.

15. [S]he tells me that everything she has said about her relationships in the past has come back to bite her, and that she will never do it again. Relationships in the past = code for snakes.

16. “’Oh, Mylanta!’ she wails, watching her cheesy potatoes travel around the table, a whiff of the simpler joys of home.” “Mylanta.” The interview ends with Selena Gomez performing a spell over her cheesy eyeballs, so that the writer, who no doubt had a bite (following the trance that led him to pledge allegiance as a non-magic ally to Dumbledore’s Army) would forget all of this. He’d write a heartfelt profile about a young woman who is rising from the ashes of her past, strong and powerful. On her broomstick.

Photos by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott via Vogue.

Selena Gomez Gets Nostalgic for ‘Wizards’ by Visiting Waverly Place in NYC

"Where it all began," the singer-actress captioned her post.

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Selena Gomez arrives to the premiere of "Only Murders in the Building" season 2 at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles, California on June 27, 2022. MICHAEL TRAN/AFP via GI

Back before she was a world-renowned pop star, actress, mental health advocate and documentary-maker, Selena Gomez was teen witch Alex Russo, star of Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place. Ten years have passed since the show wrapped, but in a recent Instagram photo, she revealed that she went back to her roots by revisiting the real-life place where her former character used to live: Waverly Place in New York City.

Gomez revealed that she’d taken the sacred pilgrimage to the Greenwich Village street where Wizards took place in a nostalgic Saturday (Oct. 29) post. In her photo, she’s standing in front of Julius’ — a famed gay bar stationed at the corner of Waverly and 10th Street — gazing up at a tall street sign reading “WAVERLY PL.”

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“Where it all began,” she captioned the post.

As expected, fans who grew up watching Wizards could barely handle all the feels attached to the “Lose You to Love Me” singer’s sentimental tribute. “DONT DO THIS TO ME,” commented one, while another wrote, “CRYING U CANT DO THIS.”

Gomez starred on the sitcom from 2007 to 2012, during which she and castmates David Henrie, Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, Maria Canals-Barrera and David DeLuise filmed four seasons and a feature-length movie. In 2013, they reunited for a one-off TV special called The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex.

Since then, the Grammy nominee has starred in and produced a number of screen projects, including Only Murders in the Building — the second season of which debuted on Hulu in June. Gomez is now gearing up to release a documentary on her mental health struggles titled Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me on Apple TV + Nov. 4. She also recently announced that she’d be dropping a single of the same name one day prior to the film’s premiere.

See Selena Gomez pay tribute to Wizards of Waverly Place in her new Instagram post below:

Selena Gomez tells Wizards of Waverly Place costars her ‘biggest mistake’ was losing touch with them

Selena Gomez said her “biggest mistake” was falling out of touch with her Wizards of Waverly Place costars.

The actor and singer shot to fame on the Disney show, playing teenage witch Alex Russo for four seasons between 2007 and 2012.

Gomez appeared on the Wizards of Waverly Pod podcast with her former costars Jennifer Stone and David DeLuise – who played her best friend and father, respectively – on Monday (27 February).

During a Q&A segment of the podcast, Gomez was asked what her “biggest mistake” was, to which she replied: “Probably not staying in touch with you guys.”

“I felt ashamed of the decisions that I made,” the Only Murders in the Building star explained.

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“I didn’t want you guys to see me in the state that I was in because A, you would have told me the truth which terrifies me, and A, I didn’t want to let you down.”

DeLuise responded: “That’s really sweet and thank you for saying that. We obviously … I miss you and I’m happy you’re doing well now.”

Stone, meanwhile, opened up about how she felt when their friendship fell off.

“I appreciate you saying that too,” she said. “To be perfectly blunt. there has been times where I’m lik … ‘Did we stop being friends because I didn’t tell her what she wanted to hear,’ you know what I mean… so I appreciate you being here.”

“I appreciate you guys… dearly and I love you so much in a way that I’ve never loved anybody else,” Gomez added.

Gomez has been open about her mental health struggles that have been exacerbated by the showbiz industry and her stardom from a young age.

“I think when I started hitting my early twenties is when it started to get really dark, when I started to feel like I was not in control of what I was feeling, whether that was really great or really bad,” Gomez said in an interview last year.

In 2018, Gomez checked into a mental health facility where she was officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

If you are experiencing feelings of distress and isolation, or are struggling to cope, the Samaritans offers support; you can speak to someone for free over the phone, in confidence, on 116 123 (UK and ROI), email [email protected], or visit the Samaritans website to find details of your nearest branch.

However, outside of the fictional world of "Wizards of Waverly Place," there is no evidence to suggest that Selena Gomez practices witchcraft or identifies as a witch. Instead, she has built her successful career through her talents in music and acting. Selena Gomez has released multiple albums and has achieved great success as a pop singer.

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Fans Think Selena Gomez Might Play a Witch Again in a New “Riverdale” Spinoff

She did play a witch on "Wizards of Waverly Place" for five years.

When Selena Gomez debuted her new icy blonde locks at the American Music Awards, everyone thought it was just a new look to go along with her latest album cycle. But some fans think that Sel's new hair is a signal of something much, much bigger.

They think Sel's new blonde look has to do with a major new TV role. Their theory is that Selena is in line to play Sabrina the Teenage Witch in Riverdale's supernatural spinoff, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina.

It's not that far fetched. Selena has considerable experience playing a magical wizard (I mean, she brought Alex Russo to life on Disney Channel's hit series Wizards of Waverly Place). Odds are she’d have no trouble filling the shoes of Sabrina the witch. Especially now that she's got the blonde hair down.

Sadly, as much as fans would love to see Selena in the titular role, her rep has already spoken out to confirm she is NOT involved with the spinoff.

"She has no involvement with the project," Sel's rep told Gossip Cop.

Darn it! Looks like Sel isn't ready to pick up her wizard's hat again just yet.

Her songs like "Bad Liar," "Hands to Myself," and "Rare" have topped the charts and gained millions of streams worldwide. She is known for her soulful voice and emotive performances. In addition to her singing career, Selena Gomez has also made a name for herself as an actress. She has appeared in various movies and television shows, showcasing her versatility as a performer. Some of her notable acting roles include films like "Spring Breakers" and "The Fundamentals of Caring." Apart from her professional endeavors, Selena Gomez is also known for her philanthropic work. She has been actively involved in various charitable initiatives and has used her platform to raise awareness about important issues such as mental health and lupus. In conclusion, while Selena Gomez portrayed a witch in the television series "Wizards of Waverly Place," it is essential to recognize that she is not a real witch. She is a talented singer, actress, and advocate who has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry and beyond..

Reviews for "The Witch's Heart: Selena Gomez's Loves, Past and Present"

1. John - 2 stars - I was really disappointed with "Selena Gomez Witch". The game had so much potential with its witch theme and Selena Gomez's involvement, but it fell flat. The gameplay felt repetitive and there wasn't much depth to the story. The graphics were also lacking, and it seemed like the developers didn't put much effort into creating a visually appealing game. Overall, it was a letdown and I wouldn't recommend it.

2. Sarah - 1 star - "Selena Gomez Witch" was a complete waste of time for me. The controls were clunky and unresponsive, making it difficult to navigate through the levels. The game also had so many ads that it became unbearable to play. Additionally, the in-app purchases were overpriced and seemed like a cash grab. I expected more from a game featuring Selena Gomez, but it fell short in every aspect. I regret downloading it and would advise others to stay away.

3. Emily - 2 stars - I have to admit, I was excited to play "Selena Gomez Witch" but it ended up being quite underwhelming. The game lacked originality, as it felt like a generic platformer with a celebrity endorsement. The levels were repetitive, and there was little variation in the gameplay. The storyline was weak, and I didn't find myself invested in the character or the world. Overall, it was a forgettable experience, and I quickly uninstalled it from my phone.

4. David - 3 stars - "Selena Gomez Witch" was decent but didn't live up to my expectations. While the graphics were visually appealing, the game lacked innovation. It followed the typical formula of many mobile games, and I was hoping for something more unique. The difficulty level was also inconsistent, with some levels being too easy while others were frustratingly difficult. It's an average game at best and didn't leave a lasting impression on me.

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