{"id":2057698,"date":"2025-09-29T15:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2057698"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:49:21","slug":"selena-gomezs-mom-mandy-teefey-made-wedding-speech-before-snub-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/selena-gomezs-mom-mandy-teefey-made-wedding-speech-before-snub-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez&#8217;s Mom Mandy Teefey Made Wedding Speech Before Snub Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/selena-gomez\/\"><strong>Selena Gomez<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s mother, <strong>Mandy Teefey<\/strong>, delivered an emotional speech at her daughter\u2019s wedding to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/benny-blanco\/\"><strong>Benny Blanco<\/strong> <\/a>before shutting down claims she was snubbed at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>A source exclusively tells <em>Us Weekly<\/em> that Teefey, 49, and Blanco\u2019s mother both spoke at the reception with \u201cemotional speeches.\u201d Gomez, 33, and Blanco, 37, tied the knot on Saturday, September 27, in Santa Barbara, California, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/selena-gomez-and-benny-blanco-married-in-romantic-wedding\/\">with their loved ones in attendance.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a perfect celebration for the most kickass couple I know! The evening couldn\u2019t have been more beautiful and perfect! Absolutely flawless,\u201d Teefey, who shares Selena with ex Ricardo Gomez, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, September 28. \u201cAll my love to my beautiful daughter @selenagomez and to the greatest son-in-law @itsbennyblanco!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cIt was a fairy tale come true and it was beyond heartwarming watching my father walk her down the aisle!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After reports alleged that Teefey <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/selena-gomezs-mom-mandy-teefey-reacts-to-her-wedding-to-benny-blanco\/\">wasn\u2019t happy she didn\u2019t walk<\/a> Selena down the aisle, the manager replied via social media, \u201cThis is ludacris!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Selena previously opened up about her plans to involve her grandfather in her special day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am looking to have a special dance with my papa,\u201d the actress said on the \u201cTable Manners With Jessie and Lennie Ware\u201d podcast in April. \u201cHe never got a chance to walk my mom down the aisle because \u2014 good for my mom \u2014 she decided to go to Vegas and was like, \u2018Whooo.\u2019 It\u2019s very cute that they did that, but I wanted to give my grandfather the opportunity to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Following Mandy\u2019s split from Ricardo, she found love with now-husband <strong>Brian Teefey<\/strong>, with whom she <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/selena-gomez-jokes-her-sister-loves-taylor-swift-more-than-her\/\">shares 12-year-old daughter Gracie<\/a>. Over the years, Mandy and Selena have been candid about the ups and downs they faced as mother and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI blamed my mom a lot [for breaking up with my dad] because I wanted a family so bad,\u201d Selena recalled during a June 2011 <em>E! Entertainment<\/em> special about her life. \u201cI wanted to have my mom and dad together. I remember just being angry with my mom. I still feel really bad about that. Having me at 16 had to have been a big responsibility. My mom gave up everything for me and had, like, three jobs. She supported me, sacrificed her life for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/selena-gomez-through-the-years\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/selena-gomez-through-the-years\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Selena Gomez Through the Years: Photos<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tSelena Gomez became a household name at a young age, and she\u2019s continued to push the status quo in the entertainment industry as the years go by. In the middle of her booming career, Gomez suffered a few personal setbacks including a lupus diagnosis, life-changing transplant surgery and a battle with mental health, but has [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-moms\/news\/selena-gomezs-mom-responds-to-investor-who-suggested-giving-birth-to-star-is-her-sole-accomplishment\/\">Mandy and Selena\u2019s relationship took a<\/a> particularly difficult turn when the singer entered a psychiatric facility in 2018 for mental health treatment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey called me and wanted to know what my daughter was doing in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. She didn\u2019t want anything to do with me. I was scared she was going to die,\u201d Mandy recalled in Selena\u2019s 2022 documentary, <em>My Mind and Me<\/em>. \u201cYou hang on as tight as you can and try to help them with their treatment and that\u2019s the hardest thing to do \u2014 to then go to bed and hope that they wake up the next day. \u2026 It\u2019s a miracle she got out, but there\u2019s always a fear it\u2019s going to happen again and that hurt us so much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More recently, a second source told <em>Us<\/em> that Selena<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/selena-gomezs-mental-health-battle-in-her-own-words\/\"> is \u201cin a very healthy place\u201d<\/a> after she has had \u201cto distance herself\u201d from her mother \u201cmany, many times in the past 10 to 15 years for various reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have been through so many ups and downs, and that instability left Selena feeling lost at times,\u201d the insider continued, adding that Selena is \u201cfinally in a place where she feels grounded. [She has] removed a lot of toxicity from her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selena Gomez\u2018s mother, Mandy Teefey, delivered an emotional speech at her daughter\u2019s wedding to Benny Blanco before shutting down claims she was snubbed at the ceremony. A source exclusively tells Us Weekly that Teefey, 49, and Blanco\u2019s mother both spoke at the reception with \u201cemotional speeches.\u201d Gomez, 33, and Blanco, 37, tied the knot on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2057699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,307104,25404,164683,21738,350701],"class_list":["post-2057698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-weddings","tag-exclusive","tag-love-lives","tag-news","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Selena-Gomezs-Mom-Mandy-Teefey-Made-Wedding-Speech-Before-Snub.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2057698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2057699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}