Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez's love story is full of glamour and romance, with an engagement to boot! It also just gave us Selena's first album in five years, but it wasn't without its bumps. In fact, while promoting their new joint album, I Said I Love You First, Selena revealed that she almost ruined Benny's proposal.
“I woke up and I was very confused on what was happening, on where we were going, because it seemed kind of far,” Selena said during an appearance with Benny on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. She thought they were going to a photo shoot to do press for their album. “So, I'm kind of a little grumpy. I'm like, ‘I really am tired and this is to far.’ So I tell him, I say, ‘After this shoot, I'm gonna go hang out with my friends.’” Cue Benny in full panic.
“Of course I'm freaking out. She was mad, she almost didn't come,” Benny told host Jimmy Fallon. “She was like, ‘I really don't feel that well. I think I'm just gonna stay home today. Can't we just make up the shoot another day?’ I was like, ‘uh...’ And I'm trying to figure out a way to do it.”
“Getting engaged to someone is the craziest thing in the world. It's like, right before you tell someone you're going to be married to them forever, they're like, ‘Show me how good you can lie to me,’” Benny said. “It's so hard!” He called the week leading up to the proposal “the scariest week of my life.”
Benny also recalled the proposal story at a fan listening party, saying that Selena was actually annoyed with him because he had been lying all week to keep it all a secret. “I had to come up with this whole elaborate plan. And the day I was gonna do it, she was so upset with me because I was lying and I was trying to keep up with the lies!” he said, prompting laughter from the crowd. “Keeping up with the lies is insane, I don't know how anyone does it. Don't lie, guys.”
Solid advice from the man currently engaged to the queen of Rare Beauty/pop princess.
