The things you do for friendship. An interview recently resurfaced following the release of Selena Gomez's intimate "My Mind & Me" documentary reveals the star years ago made a professional sacrifice for one of her closest friends at the time, Demi Lovato. In a 2020 appearance on Wildchat Sports, television director David DeLuise, who played the Russo family's lovable patriarch on "Wizards of Waverly Place," said Gomez turned down the starring role in "Camp Rock" to ensure that it would go to Lovato.

"I've never really said this story, but . . . they offered 'Camp Rock' to Selena," DeLuise said at the time. He continued, "And Selena knew that if she had passed on it, that Demi would get the part." Gomez already had her breakout as Alex Russo in "Wizards of Waverly Place," and apparently, in an effort to help Lovato catch her own big break, she gave up the...