What Happened at Wondermind? Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, flipped their mental-health journeys into a buzzy start-up. It all fell apart.

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What Happened at Wondermind? Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, flipped their mental-health journeys into a buzzy start-up. It all fell apart. (The Cut)

This is really sad. Parts that stood out for me:

"Employees at Wondermind had come to expect erratic behavior from their boss, like disappearances that lasted days or even weeks and unpredictable angry outbursts. Since the company was launched a year and a half before, Teefey had gone through phases of sleeping in her office, where she had two couches. She seemed to stay for days without bathing β€” there was no shower in the suite β€” and sometimes without changing her clothes."

"They believe that Teefey was sometimes intoxicated. One calls Teefey’s office her β€œdrug den.” Accounts of what she allegedly used vary. One staff member recalls being in her office when she snorted what they believe was a line of Ritalin."

" (Occasionally, Teefey’s younger daughter came to the office for sleepovers, which worried employees.)"

"According to dozens of conversations, the company’s grand mission and basic operations were tanked by Gomez’s and Teefey’s personal and family dysfunction, including the denial of Teefey’s instability. . . .Selena knew her mother was not well enough to be running that company.”

"When Gomez landed in a mental-health facility again, according to My Mind & Me, Teefey once more learned the news from TMZ. β€œShe didn’t want anything to do with me,” Teefey says in the doc. β€œI was scared she was going to die.”"

"According to several staffers, Teefey said Gomez had stepped in multiple times to cover employee payroll." (Good for her tbh)

"Staffers describe Gomez as disinterested, at best, in the company. Many believe Wondermind is effectively, as one puts it, β€œa way for Selena to keep Mandy out of her orbit.”

"In June of the company’s first year, Wondermind held a team dinner at Tower Bar in the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. To staffers present, it seemed obvious that Gomez didn’t take Wondermind seriously. Several employees say she arrived noticeably drunk, slurring her words and telling the table, over a martini, that she’d be leaving shortly to go have sex. (A spokesperson for Gomez did not offer comment.)"

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