“I honestly thought I was making it up before I was diagnosed. I just thought, ‘ Jesus, Selma, you’re very broken inside. Admit it.’ I didn’t know I wasn’t broken and that I had brain tissue damage.”
The star, who announced in 2021 that she was in remission, admitted that she was “living a lie” until the diagnosis and has now realized that actually her condition is more about how she deals with others than it is about herself.