Selena Gomez Calls Out Joke About Kidney Transplant

Selena Gomez has criticised The Good Fight after it becomes the latest TV show to make a joke about her kidney transplant. 

Gomez took to Twitter to react to the “tasteless jokes”.

Four years ago, the actress underwent a kidney transplant as a result of her battle with the autoimmune disorder Lupus.

“I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently,” she begins.

Last year, Saved By The Bell apologised for a joke about her 2017 operation.

I am not sure how writing jokes about organ transplants for television shows has become a thing but sadly it has apparently. I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air.

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) August 3, 2021

“I hope in the next writer’s room when one of these tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out immediately and doesn’t make it on air,” she added to the tweet.

The latest joke at her expense came in a recent episode of The Good Fight. Characters discussed what topics are “off-limits” for comedy. Necrophilia, autism and “Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant” were named.

In defence to the comments made, a source close to the show told The Hollywood Reporter that “if you watch the episode in full, the reference to Gomez is part of a discussion the characters are having about topics that are not okay to make fun of and the idea of cancel culture and being cancelled for telling a bad joke.”

“The reference is that her transplant is not something you can joke about.”

Selena did not add any other comments, but rather encouraged fans to sign up to be an organ donor.

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