Charlie Puth Talks About His Brief Romance With Selena Gomez

Before her relationship with the Weeknd, Selena Gomez had a fling with Charlie Puth in 2016. He opened up about how it inspired their duet, “We Don’t Talk Anymore.” “I don’t kiss and tell, but the only way a song like that can come across as real is if there’s something else going on behind the scenes, and that’s what was happening. Very short-lived, very small, but very impactful. And it really messed me up. I’m trying to put this the best way possible: It wasn’t like I was the only person on her mind. And I think I knew that going in — what I was getting myself into.” “It’s about a particular moment in my life, when someone very close to me wanted the attention of somebody else. When I found that out and we ended it, I might have done some shady things too, and she might have asked me, ‘How long has this been going on?’”