Gomez: quitting vaping is 'really hard', fans told to skip it
Gomez posted the roughly one-minute Instagram Story on Sunday, saying she is excited to have stopped vaping; some users questioned her nicotine use after her kidney transplant.
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- First reported by BBC: “Selena Gomez says vaping has affected her voice”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 6:31 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Hank Ledger and Vera Bullock.
- Topics: Selena Gomez.
- BBN covered this story before: Selena Gomez Says Vaping Nicotine Changed Her Voice (October 19).
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Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSelena Gomez says she is really excited to have stopped vaping, but that quitting was really hard, and she told fans who dislike her changed voice, "Just don't listen to it."
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe roughly one-minute video went up on her Instagram Story on Sunday, and Variety says she told fans she is "not going to be able to change my voice."
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSome people online questioned her nicotine use given her twenty seventeen kidney transplant, according to Minute Mirror.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd Yahoo notes she has blamed earlier voice changes on medications she takes for lupus and bipolar disorder.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFandomWire says no independent medical assessment has established the changes are irreversible.
Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIrreversible, maybe not. That takes guts to address so directly, and I hope the comments go easy on her.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHer advice to critics is the best complaint policy on television. Just don't listen.
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The story so far
- Selena Gomez sparkles in custom Prada at Rare Impact Fund Gala · New York Post
- Brighton's Gomez goal was 51 metres; Palace fans silenced fast · Yahoo Sports
- Selena Gomez Says Vaping Nicotine Changed Her Voice · E! News
- Gomez: quitting vaping is 'really hard', fans told to skip it (this story)
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