Ashley Tisdale Backs Up Selena Gomez After Kidney Transplant Joke on ‘The Right Fight’

Gomez herself called out the “tasteless” shaggy dog story on Tuesday after her fans brought it to her attention on social media. “I am not particular how writing jokes about organ transplants for tv reveals has become a part but sadly it has it appears to be like,” she wrote. “I am hoping within the next author’s room when for sure this kind of tasteless jokes are presented it’s called out without delay and doesn’t scheme it on air.” She went on to thank fans for constantly having her aid and also entreated followers to become organ donors and offered a link to stamp in.

Selenators blasted The Right Fight (a lunge-off of CBS’ The Right Wife) for a shaggy dog story in its unusual season about Gomez’s 2017 kidney transplant, not even a twelve months after Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot landed in hot water for the very same part. In the Right Fight episode, Jay (performed by Nyambi Nyambi) says it seems relish other folks “desire a permission dash to direct a shaggy dog story” and asks what subject matters are totally off-limits, with Jim (Ifadansi Rashad) responding, “Selena Gomez’s kidney transplant.”

In the Saved by the Bell reboot, which premiered in November 2020, two college students occupy been viewed arguing about who the donor was for Gomez’s kidney transplant. “I do know for a reality that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor was Justin Bieber’s mother. God, I wish that I had my phone so as that I would possibly perhaps perhaps direct it,” one personality says. The diversified pupil replies, “Prove what? That you’re an idiot? It was Demi Lovato‘s kidney. They’re most effective chums, relish you and I occupy been.” In a later scene, the words “Does Selena Gomez even occupy a kidney?” occupy been written arrive some lockers on the walls of the excessive college. The direct later apologized, made a donation to The Selena Gomez Fund for Lupus Overview at USC and removed the scenes from the Peacock series.

Gomez has lived with Lupus for a few years and underwent a kidney transplant in 2017, later revealing that the donor was her most effective friend Francia Raisa.

Tisdale and Gomez grew up together on Disney Channel, with Tisdale starring within the Excessive College Musical motion photos and The Suite Lifestyles of Zack & Cody, whereas Gomez got her originate up on Wizards of Waverly Intention.