“The jokes about my amount of boyfriends.

The trivialization of my songwriting as if it were a predatory act of a boy crazy psychopath.

The media co-signing of this narrative.

I had to make it stop.

Because it was starting to really hurt.”

“If I only hung out with my female friends, people couldn’t sensationalize or sexualize thatright?”

“I would learn later on that people could and people would.”

“I surround myself with smart, beautiful, passionate, driven, ambitious women,” she explained.

Newshow much she values herlong-standing friendship with Selena Gomez.