To cope with her 2017 kidney transplant, singer and actress Selena Gomez named her new organ after comedian Fred Armisen, and upon learning this exclusive detail, the actor sent her flowers.
On “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday night, the 30-year-old singer specifically recalled her decision to name her kidney after Armisen.
Gomez told Fallon, “So, I got a kidney transplant a few years back and as a way of coping, I thought I’d name it.” “It’s weird I know, but I did. But I named it after Fred Armisen.
“I named it after Fred Armisen because I love ‘Portlandia.’ I’ve never met him,” Gomez told Rolling stone in November. But I’m secretly hoping he gets it because I want him to be like, ‘That’s weird.’
Armisen, who guest stars as Uncle Fester on Netflix’s “Wednesday,” responded with a grand gesture.
“Yeah, he sent me flowers. I was so excited,” she told Fallon.
The “Only Murders in the Building” star underwent the transplant because of his battle with lupus, which could result in organ failure. She revealed that her friend Francia Raisa was her donor.
Gomez’s “My Mind and Me” documentary arrives on AppleTV+ on November 4. Accompanied by Gomez’s new original song with the same title, the documentary chronicles her journey through lupus combined with her bipolar diagnosis in 2016 and ’17.
“In a weird way, I think it’s a time capsule of things — a period of my life where I look back, and I really feel bad for that version of myself,” Gomez told ET at the premiere of the film. “I think it was good for me to see how I was reacting to my body, the way I was acting and the way it was so irrational in moments, and I think it’s good to see and see it.” It was really healing for me to receive.” out.”