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Selena Gomez seen for first time since deportation video backlash as she holds hands with pal Jennifer Aniston

Selena Gomez seen for first time since deportation video backlash as she holds hands with pal Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston and Selena Gomez co-hosted a Galentine’s Day event this week at san Vicente Bungalows in West Hollywood.

The event was for Aniston’s LolaVie and Gomez’s Rare Beauty and brought together a group of women to try products during the party.

The Friends star, 55, and Only Murders in the Building actress, 32, stood in front of the group of women and talked about their beauty brands.

‘We just want to celebrate women and friendship, and how we just want to continue to uplift each other,’ Selena began.

‘And I’ve known Jennifer for over a decade now and she’s someone I’ve always looked up to, and she’s always been there for me. 

‘And it’s nice to have people in life who can just be there and hear you out,’ the Emilia Perez star said in her speech.’

This is the first time Selena has been seen since there was backlash over her crying deportation video. 

Jennifer Aniston and Selena Gomez co-hosted a Galentine's Day event and looked like BFFs during it

Jennifer Aniston and Selena Gomez co-hosted a Galentine’s Day event and looked like BFFs during it

‘It’s been a really hard couple of weeks,’ an emotional Jennifer said, adding that she hopes everyone is ‘safe and okay’ after the recent LA fires.

‘But we’re here to celebrate women and support each other.’

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The Galentine’s Day event also featured a movie screening of the iconic 1995 teen comedy film Clueless starring Alicia Silverstone.

Gomez and Aniston’s friendship began when they met through their shared management team.

But Selena shared an adorable story about running into the Morning Show star in 2009 when she was 16.

‘I was shaking! I ran into Jennifer in the bathroom and she goes, “Hi!” My legs started to shake and I ran. I didn’t know what to do because I freaked out,’ she told Just Jared.

‘I always say that I worship Rachel McAdams as a movie actress but for comedy—the whole reason I started my show and mannerisms, they were after Jennifer Aniston. 

‘It was so funny, they were playing clip reels of the work she’s done and I quoted the whole thing. Every single thing she’d say, I would say it. People were sitting there laughing at me and they’re like, “Wow, you’re obsessed.”‘

The event was for Aniston's LolaVie and Gomez's Rare Beauty and brought together a group of women to try products during the party

The event was for Aniston’s LolaVie and Gomez’s Rare Beauty and brought together a group of women to try products during the party

The Friends star, 55, and Only Murders in the Building actress, 32, stood in front of the group of women and talked about their beauty brands

The Friends star, 55, and Only Murders in the Building actress, 32, stood in front of the group of women and talked about their beauty brands

'We just want to celebrate women and friendship, and how we just want to continue to uplift each other,' Selena began

‘We just want to celebrate women and friendship, and how we just want to continue to uplift each other,’ Selena began

‘I have not only been following her career as a fan since I was 8 and now get to watch her completely transform in her new movie Cake, I have gotten to have real conversations with such a real heart, made my entire year. #cake #goseeit,’ Gomez captioned a 2014 pH๏τo on Instagram.

‘We have the same manager,’ Aniston clarified in January 2015 at the premiere of her movie Cake.

‘She’s just like a little cherub that I feel like I wanna take care of. And we’ve just met through our manager. She’s been extremely supportive and wonderful.’

Selena talked about meeting Jen in an interview with KTU radio, ‘so it was kind of like a friendly meeting and instantly she’s, like, inviting me to her house. 

‘She has a pizza oven. Like, we’ve made pizzas at her house, the Wizards of Waverly Place star gushed.

‘She’s very cool and very sweet,’ Gomez continued. ‘She kind of gives me a lot of, like, maternal advice.’

The Galentine’s event comes after Selena posted and later deleted a tearful video about Donald Trump’s deportation policy.

Selena admitted she felt powerless over the situation, telling her 422 million followers: ‘I’m so sorry, I wish I could do something, but I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything.’ 

'And I've known Jennifer for over a decade now and she's someone I've always looked up to, and she's always been there for me'

‘And I’ve known Jennifer for over a decade now and she’s someone I’ve always looked up to, and she’s always been there for me’

'And it's nice to have people in life who can just be there and hear you out,' the Emilia Perez star said in her speech

‘And it’s nice to have people in life who can just be there and hear you out,’ the Emilia Perez star said in her speech

The singer and actress, 32, sobbed as the spoke about Trump’s immigration policy in an emotional clip shared to her Instagram Stories.

Predictably, the video sparked a fierce backlash from Republicans and MAGA supporters, including US Senate candidate Sam Parker who called for the Bad Liar singer (who was born in the U.S. to an American mother) to be deported in the wake of her meltdown.

An insider told DailyMail.com why Gomez, who is engaged to Benny Blanco, swiftly deleted the post and is vowing to ‘stay out of politics’.

‘She realizes that she cannot go up against a Republican backed nation – many of whom are loyal customers of her Rare Beauty brand,’ they said. ‘She does not wish to alienate.

‘She is going to stay out of politics and in her own lane after that drama.’

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