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This is what true friendship looks like.
Selena Gomez, who won the Billboard “Woman of the Year” award Thursday night, could not contain her tears while receiving the award in front of her longtime friend and kidney donor, Francia Raisa.
The Secret Life of an American Teenager star was instrumental in helping Selena overcome her fight with Lupus, an immune system disease that tends to attack a patient’s major organs before completely rendering one or more of them defunct. In Selena’s case, the disease, which she had been battling for several years but only opened about it publicly during an interview with Billboard in October 2015, had spread to her kidney and therefore posed a great risk to her.
Gomez’s condition worsened to the point where she had to undergo chemotherapy but when even that did not improve her condition, doctors told her she would need a kidney transplant.