Despite Gomez’s public statement that she had received a transplant from her close friend, actor Francia Raísa, one scene from episode six of the series features two Bayside High students speculating about the identity of the donor.
“I know for a fact that Selena Gomez’s kidney donor was Justin Bieber’s mom. God, I wish that I had my phone so that I could prove it,” one student says. “Prove what?” the other replies. “That you’re an idiot? It was Demi Lovato’s kidney. They’re best friends, like you and I were.” In a separate scene, there appears to be graffiti on a wall that reads, “Does Selena Gomez even have a kidney?”
Peacock, NBC Universal and the show’s executive producers apologized for the references in a statement to “We apologize. It was never our intention to make light of Selena’s health. We have been in touch with her team and will be making a donation to her charity, The Selena Gomez Fund for Lupus Research at USC,” the statement reads.
In 2017, Gomez revealed she underwent a kidney transplant due to her lupus diagnosis, which she made public in 2015 and for which she was previously undergoing chemotherapy. In 2016, she stepped away from the spotlight as a result of the mental health concerns regarding her diagnosis. Gomez has previously stated she wanted to come forward with her illness to spread awareness of the autoimmune disease and become an advocate.Joking about someone’s disease is not funny whatsoever.
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The bigger question is why they would even think it was funny in the 1st place? WHO vetted the episode? What writers came in thinking this was good material? What producers sat through storyboarding & thought 'GREAT IDEA!'? An apology & donation is the LEAST that should occur!
They can F off. This is ridiculous. Life and death is not funny. Ableism!!
Didn't the showrunner write for 30 Rock? That show had more jabs towards celebrities and I don't see anyone complaining about it.
NBC, you will never be woke enough!!!
They call that an apology? Seriously!!!! Obviously they knew what they were doing when they not only wrote the script but continued to air it!! This is disheartening and beyond disgusting!! Just goes to show real life things don’t matter when all you care about is views!!!
not the locals saying the joke is not offensive🤡🤡🤡🤡
oh that's okay then 🙄🙄
This is very disappointing....
But they should cut the sequence, too. Even if they just go to black for 40 seconds. peacockTV
Glad that they apologize but the bad thingz already happened
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For goodness’ sake, she has lupus!! This is such a low blow. SMH.
Anyone defending this is pathetic. It was needless, targeted bullying against someone with a chronic illness/disability. If that’s ever okay to you, I’ll pray for you.
What were the writers thinking? There is not a thing funny about an organ transplant.
Here you go people who treat NBC as a reliable source of decent information
My cousin lost her life to lupus this year. She was diagnosed earlier this year and died in August. She was a front line nurse٫ Sooo it's not a joke. What may be a joke though is your pathetic lives 😒.
The damage has already been done, that should have never happened period. Most people just piss me off due to they're bullshit.
There’s a reason why this country is growing apart in thoughts and why mental health is a growing concern.Youth are being brought up in a world where they take offense at anything and can’t just shrug something off.This don’t offend anything culture is the root cause-toughen up.
How will this apology make it up to the hurt selenagomez and franciaraisa faced because of these jokes? When will TV producers realize the fine line between joking and bullying! Disgusted
Its absolutely beyond disgusting
who tf thinks making a joke about a kidney transplant is 1) funny 2) acceptable ? there’s so many ways to make funny, smart jokes and y’all still pick the ones that are outright offensive and NOT FUNNY. i’ll never understand this ‘logic’.
An apology to francia would be nice and appreciated.
even birds are apologising to her. the power
Who even approved that?! So wrong....
I take that apology. Now CANCEL THE SHOW
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Oooo, am I finally seeing a little backlash the the cancel culture d-bags?
i don’t care if they apologize 600 times. that never should have aired. what reasonable person would think that’s appropriate or funny in any way?
Some behaviors are inadequate to apologize:)
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Idc cancel the damn diseased show🦗🦗
...the grief over a lost soul while I lived, the gratitude to the grieving parents of the young man. In just the last few days my arm is acting up, fever in the transplant (It will be fine - I know what to do) but the pain is considerable. Nothing about it is funny
I am haunted by my transplant. In an effort to save my arm after a drunk driver hit our car, the docs saved my arm by implanting a donor muscle from a young man who died the same night as our accident. The medications that rip you apart (steroids, etc) to stave off rejection...
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Apologies are useless!
OUTSIDE!!
OUT!!
SelxTayxAri as they should.
guess what, they should have known better and learnt how to be respectful
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How insensitive and disappointing to know that writers thought it was ok for this.
That apology isn't enough they should scrap off that part you made fun of someone's illness rem we got others with lupus too and others who need transplant what of the donors how do they feel soo insensitive of them shame on them
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Thats not a jokeee.
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We don't want your PR DAMAGE CONTROL APOLOGY. DELEEEETE
The fact that many people here thinks that this joke means nothing is disgusting. No one's diseases should be taken as jokes for others. Selena and other patients and kidney donors shoull all be respect not to be 'jokes' to be made fun of
Disgusting
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Good. Now cancel the show.
Selena Gómez is the Queen, more respect
Wow! though for Variety to express blatant disregard of a woman's triumphs through dire adversity, deserving one hell of a lot more then an apology! Disgraceful display!!
disgusting
Cancel this show
Everyone crying for Selena like she was really disrespected is just out for attention. They were not making fun of Kidney Transplants, or Selena, it is making fun of the stupid shit Teenagers say. Attention whores get this shit trending, then everyone takes it seriously...
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Im so fucking proud to be a Selenators. RESPECT SELENA GOMEZ
Not enough.
The damage is already done ...but good for them that they've apologized
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How did they not mean to take her disease lightly? These aren’t the things you say as a joke, it isn’t funny. This is disgusting! respectselenagomez
My dad died waiting for a kidney transplant. But haha I guess?
do more not just like apologizing 😒
that's not in anyway a joke..poor publicity stunt done by a pathetic and insensitive piece of shit . Selena Gomez should take trash peacockTV to court .disrespect to entire community of chronic debilitating illnesses ,organ donors and recipients RESPECTSELENAGOMEZ
as they should.
Four questions 1: when tf did saved by the bell get rebooted? 2: why did it get rebooted? 3: who tf is watching it? 4: why would the writers think those “jokes” were okay
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Maybe they can donate a sense of humor to people here too
Peacocks for the poors anyway
THE FUCK
1 this is a private personal matter 2 as a public figure she’s really brave and this shows a hopeful example for medical procedures for children and any other person going through medical adversity
is this how people joke now? disgusting
Cancel the show
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bro it was just so ridiculously unnecessary....... so embarrassing
pode enfiar as desculpas bem no olho do cu
I don’t care I don’t like her
Shouldn’t have done any jokes at all, of all the people that were there no one thought that was mean? Y’all messed up af.
Selvoodoo is everywhere
The most surprising thing about this is people are even watching this show
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Who makes jokes about kidney transplant? I saw the clip, I didn’t think it was over the top offensive but I thought it was totally unnecessary and should have not been referenced at all. My grandmother died waiting for a kidney. Not something to joke about.
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It SUCH a terrible show I totally missed it or maybe turned it off before they got to it
This is so pathetic. Why the fuck would that need to be done in the first place? WHAT possible reason
WHAT An apologize its not enough and how about franciaraisa !!
I hope they flop.
XQ DAN ESAS BROMAS, CON ENFERMEDADADES NO SE JUEGAN, INCONSCIENTES X DIOS, SELENA NO LA TOCA ELLA SIEMPRE TUVO Y TIENE Q SEGUIR LUCHANDO X EL LUPUS, SELENATORS DEFENDIENDO A SEL 100ÑRE ❤️
I'm not satisfied with this little apologize making to silence voices. For the peoples disrespect for this show (including Selena) we'll not receiving this, is too little. Selenation is here to fight and our fight just started. No one mess with our girl. RESPECT SELENA GOMEZ
That is so cruel and fu*ked up. It’s is so obvious that the apology means nothing.
It’s the haters that do this...washed up, jealous, machismo, ego driven people in the entertainment business...they knew exactly what they were doing. People can’t handle authenticity & vulnerability, especially in a Mexican American successful woman.
Disgusting
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I’m proud of us selenation! ❤️
enfiem no rabo
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they should take the episode down
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Peacock apologizing & making a donation is a good start however the right move to make in this situation is to remove & cut both scenes from the Saved By The Bell episode & get rid of the awful & disgusting black graffiti on the wall immediately. That’s the best move to make now!
Stupidity of forgiveness
🤮🤮🤮🤮 Horrible people. Poor Selena.
Repeat after me SELENA GOMEZ DESERVES BETTER. 💗💗💗💗
Not enough.
disgusting. they should be ashamed of themselves
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We, from Argentina don't support TV shows that shows to the kids how to learn to make bulling! !!we live in a difficult world with hate and intolerance and you have to give the good example and not open the door to the evilness
NO ACEPTAMOS SUS DISCULPAS. DEBEN CANCELAR EL SHOW.
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how pathetic can they be bruh respectselenagomez
'Peacock issues lame apology saying they never intended to make light of Selena's health while joking about it twice, obviously intentionally making light of it'
cancel the flop show
It’s a joke. Fucking relax... they could’ve used any celebrity and any situation. Calm. It. Down. 🧐🤔
You're still a pice of sh1t. peacockTV PeacockTVCare TraceyWigfield CANCEL YOUR SHOW
Selena could probably care less I guarantee she would’ve never even known if fans hadn’t gone crazy
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apologizes my ass! they have to delete or edit that mess! selenagomez gurl please sues them and take everything they have is all I ask you
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See what happens when you come for Selena
Thank you for bringing attention to this show, wasnt going to watch it before but now I’m putting it on. Thanks again!
the damage is already done, the importance is that they don't do it again
I really hope Selena sues them, all this sh1t for bring attention to this flop show, unbelievable
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Ohhhhhh really, STFO Selena didn’t deserve to be treated like that RESPECT SELENA ❤️
If the joke was super funny, it wouldn't have been such a big deal. It was more an attempt at a timely joke that the kids will like. Swing and a miss. Still...just a joke.
Wow. People saying this show is good and these are the jokes. Not even about bad taste or not. Just not funny.
That wasn’t even a joke that was just plain rude.
Still F*ck em
What the hell were they thinking?
This is getting so dumb...hahaha it’s not like she died from the transplant. People are really going insane
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they are still trash
IF THE EPISODE STILL ON AIR THESE APOLOGIZES ARE WORTH NOTHING RESPECT SELENA GOMEZ
Needs more than an apology, show should be cancelled when reckless jokes are written by screenwriters who lack any awareness for others
Doesn’t seem like enough to release a paragraph apology and write it off with a donation. Delete the whole episode and issue a more sincere apology peacocktv universaltv
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What was their intention?
This is not a joke, this evil, extremely offensive and disgusting, you’re telling me of all the people on set, of all the editing pre and post, no one thought this was heartless, and a low jab at, not just Selena, but people all over suffering/battling kidney failure?...
vuInerabIebtch They knew what they were doing.. It makes me mad that the writers/producers of the show, made these disgusting jokes about Selena's kidney transplant, to bring attention to their shitty show.. I hope Selena sues them.. They can't get away with something as disgusting as this..
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We love you Selena
SBTBNow should apologize for that horrific theme song.
This whole thing is just hilarious
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Where's the proof of the donation? LupusResearch peacockTV
Even if they apologized, they still are sh1tty people. Cancelled. peacockTV PeacockTVCare TraceyWigfield RESPECT SELENA GOMEZ RESPECT SELENA GOMEZ
as they should!
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as they should
selenaaaag1 Absolutely disgusting that they even thought of doing it. I hope she never sees this.
what’s wrong with these comments? you can joke about other stuff not peoples diseases ?
They shouldn't,people are just babies,cry all the time
lmao its literally not even a joke about her, it's about how dumb the character and others on the show are.
As they should
That joke was really not offensive at all
Butthurt people everywhere
Oh thank god, the world is officially saved.
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