Benny Blanco Tried to Set Up Fiancée Selena Gomez With a Friend Before They Started Dating

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco are very much in love and are set to get married!

However, before the 32-year-old entertainer and the 37-year-old songwriter/producer started dating, he tried to set her up with someone else.

While promoting their joint album I Said I Love You First, Benny opened up about his first impressions of his now fiancée and how he tried to set her up.

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“I thought she hated me,” he said on the Jay Shetty Podcast of his first meeting with Selena, which was set up by her mom Mandy Teefey. They met 16 years ago to work on a song together.

“Obviously, 99% of it was in my head,” Benny went on. “I was talking to her and said, ‘Oh my God, I have so many good single guy friends… We have dinners at the house all the time, you should come over sometime.’ I wasn’t even thinking about anything and we’re talking about our ideal date and this and that.”

“I want her to be in our friend group and I want to make sure this thing is smoothed out so the song goes well,” he continued, adding they started texting each other and would send “ugly” selfies.

Selena, who was also on the podcast, said that she started falling for him through their text exchanges.

When asked about almost self-sabotaging their relationship, Benny said, “I feel like it all happens for a reason. I feel like maybe me doing that is what disarmed her enough.”

If you missed it, Selena and Benny also opened up about their relationship during an episode of Hot Ones.

The couple recently spilled on their wedding plans…

Pictured in the gallery: Selena greeting fans while leaving the Drew Barrymore Show in a pinstripe suit on Tuesday (March 25) in New York City. Later in the day, she wore a leather jacket and jeans while visiting SiriusXM Studios, where she met up with Chris Olsen. After that visit, she was also greeted by many fans looking to get photos and autographs!