Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco reveal who said ‘I love you’ first

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Singer and actor Selena Gomez and music producer Benny Blanco stop by TODAY to discuss their first album as a newly engaged couple called “I Said I Love You First” — and they share the moment Gomez said “I love you” for the first time while coming out of anesthesia! They also open up about
Selena good morning, Benny good morning, morning, congratulations
congratulations obviously on the album that just dropped but
congrats on the engagement as well.
Thank you so much. Yeah, it's been a really fun year very
busy. I mean that you guys work together in the past but was it
different this time since you're newly engaged working on
an album together was the dynamic that.
Yeah, I get to kiss her at the end of the night, what do you
mean it's way.
I was we had taken it probably haven't seen you in a couple of
years and then he came into the studio and
I don't know I believe in timing. So I think it was nice
I've known her so long but this
so built a friendship.
It just feels like everything's easier, you know, it's when
you're known each other for so long then we start working then
we fall in love it just felt like it all happened at the
right time.
It's all about time of the title of the album. I said I
love you first, yeah, I wondered when I when I read
the I was reading who said it first to me he did she said it
first on the town to give me the back story here know the
first time she said it okay, she had when we first started
dating she had hand surgery and she was coming out of
anesthesia and she just goes.
I love you and I said, but as you guys I love you and I I
don't I go back to that and then know she said it a few
times as a mistake and then I was in New York City and I was
like okay, I'm going to do it. I have this whole thing
planned and I was laying in bed with her more like about to say
and then she says it before me she steals my moment, yeah,
still the thunder she's stolen.
It's just too much so it's exciting. So it was the
propofol that led you to.
I'm very I made him. Yeah, so now that the album's done do
we move on to wedding planning now is that the now I'm
actually shooting season, 5 of only murders right now. I have
a I you know he has to do some work stuff to so
the honest, I'm just enjoying us in this moment. Yeah, then
we'll get to start the craziness enjoying the
Oh my God, we haven't even had time to enjoy are you kidding
me we go. She shouldn't only merge were promoting are
celebrating with you. She's is that the Oscars like we it's
crazy, but we're going to do it we're going to do it this year
maybe I have no I I don't know if we have time okay, I don't
even know most brides and grooms have like a must have
like something that they really want to have at the at the
wedding or the reception you have like a must have.
Now we want ours to be pretty casual. Pickles. What we're
going to have to pick, you know when you said, oh no, no you
want to know you said you like I want to have little
sandwiches with pickles my friends. So we really she's
really the cheapest. Everything is real easy.
I like that there's this video that surface of you recently,
I don't know if you've seen this this is an 11 year-old
Selena Gomez of you see this you say. Watch that I want to
talk to you about this this video clip.
Yeah, yeah, but it's like that's what I want to do that
when I get older.
So there you are
saying you want to be a singer you want to be an actress and
look at you now couple decades later, absolutely crushing it
you manifested it. What would you looking at that video what
would you go back and tell that 11 year-old son to come as.
To be honest when I watch it, I wish I was still
when you're a kid you have this fearlessness and I felt
really comfortable and my skin, it's when you get older and you
go through life and sometimes you know insecurities come in
and as a kid I
I would just say like stay in that you know believe in
yourself a little more.
By the way you sing about that on the new album as well as a
track that's devoted to it.
This was a joint effort this interview we asked both of you
to write a question for the other I'm going to assume that
you didn't share the question. We did that I we're going to
we're going to start with you this is the question for
something this is from your your hobby to be okay, all
right.
To go to sleep, you will only watch a friends be how I met
your mother see will and grace
or D the greatest showman you can only pick one.
For the rest of your life.
Greatest showman I just love that means I got to watch it
every day for the rest of my life. Well we could throw in
some other things every now and then what would you watch is
that a curiosity.
You watch like I do whatever she said what do you mean what
he watches a little bit of everything I'm the one that's
like I have to fall asleep, she is we have now seen I've seen
every friends episode with a 300 times she can actually you
can say an episode and she can tell you exactly what happened
like you can tell the number and she can tell you exactly
what happened in which episode on which season.
Wow that's I don't even know what for breakfast.
Here's the question from Selena for you any all right.
How do you get Selena out of a bad day.
Honestly
it's pretty easy you just I just
if she's like in bed, I'll just like come in and do like a
really funny voice and like
I don't want to I'm not going to no no no no it's just like
sweet yeah, I'll just come in and I like kind of like nestle
up in there and like do it's kind of a different voice every
time and then we're all like
going on is that
something like just something to make her laugh.
Is that is that what you thought he was going to say.
I mean that is all true. What you think I was going to say.
I think when I can't sleep, it's always nice and you help
me rest if I'm too stressed.
Yeah, I'm just going to deal with that right. Yeah, I love
I love this album is great. This is even better
congratulations. Do we have time for the game to have to
get okay. So these are these are paddles all right rapid
fire.
That's me that is that is you and there's your bride on the
other side, so I'm going to give you a question and then
you you flash to the camera. The answer. Who's the better
cook.
Okay, all right, what what's special to us is good to I mean
every everything I there's more questions when we got a normal
time was a mess here this year.
Smart, I saw you look at the power first. He tells me I was
the better dancer.
What that's a half way okay, I that's a half way. She's the
better. Yeah, yeah, she's a better. The first move.
Well how do we have such a with it's what I think that I did
you've been generous he made the first move. Yeah, but I was
kind of like
yeah, maybe it's this again okay.
The half and half last last one of the guys, a big fans of
Mario who would win in Mario Kart.
You better put up my.
I'm so bad at all of the video game, she tries to start and
I'll and I'm like come on just play with I want her to start
practicing without me yeah, and I don't because she doesn't
have time she's got 16 jobs. Congratulations. This is
lovely congrats. Thank you so much for stopping by a reminder
their album you can guess you can take that with you Benny I
said I love you first it is out today and we know that it was
Selena who said she loved him first.
