Selena Gomez links voice change to nicotine vaping
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tuko
American singer Selena Gomez attributes the change in her voice, which she now believes is lasting, to her past use of nicotine e-cigarettes. She says she has stopped vaping and warns against the practice in a video posted on Instagram on 18 October 2026, according to USA Today.
The American singer Selena Gomez said she had vaped a great deal of nicotine and attributed the change in her voice to this consumption in a video posted on her Instagram Stories on Sunday 18 October 2026, USA Today reports. She said she had stopped and hoped not to start again.
Gomez warned her followers that vaping “is not worth it”, adding that nicotine is difficult to quit. Health professionals cited by Tuko explain that e-cigarette aerosol can dry out and irritate the tissues of the vocal cords, causing a hoarse voice or vocal fatigue. A study published in 2025 on young daily vapers observed slower closure and less regular vocal-cord vibrations among them than among non-vapers.
The singer had previously mentioned throat swelling during an Instagram livestream in December 2025, without identifying vaping as the cause at the time. She has previously spoken publicly about her lupus and kidney transplant.
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