Raísa told W magazine she lived with Gomez for a short time in 2016. "She said, 'We can be homeless together,'" Raísa joked. Their living situation only brought them closer together, and it's actually how Raísa first learned of Gomez's need for a kidney donor due to her lupus diagnosis.
"She went to go get tests, and she came home one day and she was serious," Raísa recalled. At first, Raísa said she gave Gomez some space, but after the Disney alum "fell to the floor and started crying," Raísa knew something was terribly wrong. "She said, 'I need a new kidney. I don't know what I'm going to do, the waitlist is seven to 10 years.' And it just came out of me, and I said, 'I'll get tested,'" Raísa said. "I called her assistant behind her back to get the information, and that's how the process started."
