Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato Friendship Timeline

The exchange, which took place outside a London hotel, launched countless feud theories. First, Lovato was chummy with Taylor Swift. Then Lovato went through a rough breakup with Joe Jonas, Swift went on to briefly date the Camp Rock star, Gomez and Swift became dear friends… Discuss.

But when Lovato was in a downward spiral toward the end of 2010, resulting in her first trip to rehab, Gomez and Swift were among the people who reached out to her—a revelation that helped quash the speculation that Gomez’s squad membership had come between them. 

Gomez eventually acknowledged that she and Lovato were on the outs for a while, and she owned up to her role in how that happened.

“I’ve known her since we were 7, and we did fall apart for a while,” the Only Murders in the Building star told Seventeen in 2014, when she and Lovato, born just a month apart, were 21. “She was going through things and I was so young and it was confusing. I processed it saying, ‘OK, I don’t understand what she’s going through, so I’m just going to do this.’ I don’t think it was fair, and I’m so happy that I have her back in my life now.”