Selena Gomez is offering insight into her breakup with Justin Bieber and finding love again with fiancé Benny Blanco.

Gomez got candid about feeling lonely in the time between ending her relationship with Bieber and sparking a new connection with Blanco on the “Table Manners” podcast on April 29.

“I hadn’t liked anyone in a very long time,” the “Lose You to Love Me” singer said.

Gomez said that when she and Blanco shared their first kiss, the moment felt refreshing after a few years of dating misfires.

“Some kisses are for fun, and then when you feel something behind a kiss, it’s completely different,” she said. “And I’d been alone for about five years, with the exception of a few (bad) dates here and there, but never felt that way. And I was a little embarrassed.”

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Gomez reportedly dated DJ Zedd in 2015 and singer The Weeknd in 2017. Gomez’s on-again, off-again relationship with Bieber lasted over seven years, from 2010 to 2018.

In a Time interview published in May, Gomez opened up about how her romance with Blanco started, saying that though she’d only considered the “Diamonds” producer a friend at first, she’d discovered her feelings were romantic after attending a birthday party to meet his friend. “It just happens when you least expect it,” Gomez said.

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The couple went public with their relationship in December 2023. In a since-deleted comment at the time, the Rare Beauty founder appeared to reveal the two had already been dating for six months. They shared their engagement a year later.

Bieber has also moved on with model Hailey Bieber. The couple’s own on-again-off-again relationship began in 2015 and culminated in their marriage in 2018. The Biebers welcomed their first child together, a baby boy named Jack Blues Bieber, in August.