Benny Blanco knew his fiancée Selena Gomez was his one-and-only after their first date.
Blanco, 36, and Gomez, 32, went in depth on their relationship with Interview magazine in a profile published on Friday, February 14. “It was really simple. We got in the studio to work on a song and we just talked; that’s how easy it was for me. I liked him before he liked me,” Gomez shared.
The singer noted that the pair, who got engaged in 2024, had known each other since she was “around 16, 17” before they first went out. “When she started putting out music, I was so into it. I feel like she was the original sad girl,” he explained. “I was drawn to it.”
Blanco confirmed he initially “had no idea” about the singer’s feelings toward him. “We were in the session and I was like, ‘You should meet some of my friends. I can hook you up with some dates.’ I hadn’t thought about it at all,” he said. “And then we were texting afterwards and we decided to get dinner the next day. I guess she thought it was a date and I had no idea it was a date.”
Selena Gomez and her fiancé, producer Benny Blanco, officially announced their relationship via Instagram in December 2023. “He is my absolute everything in my heart,” the “Wolves” singer wrote in an Instagram comment at the time. “He has been the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” Hints of the couple’s relationship were dropped on the […]
According to Blanco, it wasn’t until their “second date” where he said, “‘Wait, does she like me?’ I was clueless.”
He continued, “From then on, it was easy. You know when you think you met the right person, you’re like, ‘Oh my god.’ But it feels so different. The second we started hanging out, I was like, ‘This is my wife.’ I was telling my mom, ‘This is the girl I’m going to marry.’” He concluded, “She’s my best friend.”
Blanco, a record producer, and Gomez have been together since 2023, but collaborated on music together for several years prior. They are teaming up for their first joint album, I Said I Love You First, which is set to release in March.
“It’s so good because I get her out, and she calms me down when I need it,” Blanco gushed. “She’s the first person that I’ve been with where I’m like, ‘I don’t even give a fuck what’s going on. I could sit in this bed with you for 72 hours and feel like I didn’t miss anything.’ She’s like my fucking heroin and Xanax combined.”
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a new album and their first joint interview, published on Friday, February 14, where they shared intimate details about how they met and fell in love — as well as their love of date-night dressing, among other things. Gomez, 32, and Blanco, 36, sat down […]
He added, “Whenever I’m feeling anything but perfect, she knows the exact thing to say. I’m so pissed that it took this long. It’s like, ‘How did we not figure this out sooner?’ I’m 36 years old.” Gomez confirmed, “Timing is everything.”
Blanco recalled, “Before I was with her, I was like, ‘You know what? I’m going to stop everything I’m doing and just focus all my energy on being a grownup and being with the right person.’ Now I worship the ground she walks on and I feel like she’s the same way to me.”
The producer added, “I just feel a thing for her that I can’t even explain. I’m so sappy.”