Selena Gomez reflects on her journey of heartbreak following her breakup with Justin Bieber. Now engaged to Benny Blanco, she says she has found emotional peace, joy, and lasting love.

“Single Soon,” Gomez’s first and only release of 2023, arrived in August, and was co-produced by Blanco and Cashmere Cat. Gomez would later reveal in December that she’d been dating Blanco for about six months, meaning they were likely already dating when the song dropped.

Butterflies weren’t the only thing Selena Gomez felt when she first locked lips with fiancé Benny Blanco. While appearing on Wednesday’s episode of the “Table Manners” podcast with singer Jessie Ware and her mother,