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Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty PicturesWhereas Selena Gomez has not responded personally to the Saved by the Bell reboot controversy, the place an episode mocked her life-saving kidney transplant, a supply tells Entertainment Tonight that she was damage by what she noticed.
A supply near the “Lose You to Love Me” singer claims, “Selena was actually upset by the Saved by the Bell scene about her well being and considered it as bullying and offensive.”
Mirroring the criticism that got here from her 2017 kidney donor Francia Raisa, who anxious that the SBTB reboot damage organ donors and recipients, Gomez seemingly expressed concern over how they obtained the supposed jokes.
“She felt as if her kidney transplant, and others who’ve gone by means of that, was used as a joke at her expense,” the supply added.
As beforehand reported, the controversial scenes appeared within the sixth episode of the present, which featured an trade between two characters who insisted that both Justin Bieber‘s mom or Demi Lovato donated their kidney to Selena.
There’s additionally a scene that exhibits the phrases “Does Selena Gomez even have kidneys?” spray painted in daring black letters on the wall.
The scenes have since been edited out of the episode and an apology has been issued by the Peacock streaming service, NBCUniversal and the present’s govt producers.
By Megan Stone
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