Selena Gomez’s childhood crush is just as cute as it is heartbreaking.
The Ojos Tristes singer sat down with Karol G on Wednesday for the latest installment of Complex’s GOAT Talk, where one of the topics on the table was their favorite rappers. The pop stars agreed on Eminem as one of the first rap stars they became fans of, with Selena noting her father was a DJ who “remix[ed] all kinds of songs.” And whenever Eminem came on, she would get “so excited.”
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But she took things a step further by revealing another OG rap star who had her young heart: Ice Cube!

She revealed:
“I had the biggest crush on him, and I was like 5.”
The Only Murders in the Building star then revealed the gut-punching reason why:
“It’s so weird, but I just thought, ‘Protect me.’”
Wait, that’s SO sad!
Not a whole lot is known about Selena’s relationship with her biological father Ricardo Joel Gomez, other than the fact that he’s been mostly out of the picture for the majority of her life. At least publicly. He and Selena’s mother Mandy Teefy divorced in 1997 when Selena was just 5 years old — so it’s pretty heartbreaking to hear that at that same time, she was looking at Ice Cube as a male figure to “protect” her.
Selena and her father are in touch today, but keep their relationship largely out of the spotlight… Besides for the occasional birthday post he shares for her.
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