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"Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez met and became close pals more than 10 years ago, as costars on the kids&amp;apos; show Barney and Friends. Over the last decade, they&amp;apos;ve grown up and, at times, apart. But in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- whatever has happened between them in the past, Lovato is confident they have a solid future.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ve been through a lot together,&amp;quot; she said during her Live From MTV special on Tuesday, May 14. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ve had periods of time where we grew apart and we just didn&amp;apos;t really talk. But now we&amp;apos;re in a place where I think we realized that life is so short, and that when you have people in your life that love you so much, then you should just always be around them.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;[Selena&amp;apos;s] going to be a big sister, and I want to be around for that,&amp;quot; the X Factor judge added, referring to the news that Gomez&amp;apos;s mom, Mandy Teefey, is expecting a second child this year. &amp;quot;Everything about her -- she has a great soul, she&amp;apos;s talented, she&amp;apos;s beautiful, and she will always be really, really close to my heart.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nThat&amp;apos;s high praise coming from Lovato, 20, who recently opened up to the U.K.&amp;apos;s Company magazine about learning to be more selective about the people she lets into her inner circle. Since leaving rehab in 2010, the &amp;quot;Heart Attack&amp;quot; singer surrounds herself only with pals she knows she can really trust.\r\n&amp;quot;A couple of months before I went to rehab, I had a birthday party, and there were a couple of hundred people there. It was full of people who I considered my closest friends,&amp;quot; she explained to Company (as excerpted by Entertainment Tonight). &amp;quot;When I turned my phone on after being in rehab for three months, I expected lots of text messages and phone calls. I had four texts. That was a wake-up call.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t have loads of friends,&amp;quot; she continued. &amp;quot;I used to, but then I realized, do any of them actually care? Now I have people who, if I break my leg in the middle of the night, will come to the hospital with me. Or they&amp;apos;ll answer the phone at 4 a.m. if I need them.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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