David Henrie talks about his close relationship with Selena Gomez

• David Henrie and Selena Gomez maintain a strong friendship despite Gomez's success.
• Henrie emphasizes the authenticity and freedom in their relationship.
• The sequel series happened organically, with no initial plans.

After growing close over the years since “Wizards of Waverly Place”, Selena Gomez and David Henrie have maintained a strong friendship. Now, with their return in “Wizards Beyond Waverly Place”, Henrie discussed their bond in a recent interview.

He said, "It's been wonderful. Despite all of her massive successes, her and I, our relationship has just withstood all that because I don't know, we're just real with each other."

"We both were close before any of that stuff started. She knows I'm going to be myself with her, and I'm going to be genuine and authentic and shoot her straight. I think there's a freedom to that that is tough to come by," he added.

Henrie shared that the sequel series "happened organically," even though there were no initial plans for it.

"Selena and I remained very good friends from the end of the show, and I got married, she became good friends with my wife, and we would just all get together and have a glass of wine and just talk about memories," he said, adding, "It always found its way to Wizards, and we would then find ourselves joking about where would the characters be, what would they be doing. And it just evolved."

"At a certain point, I started having kids and I'm like, it's been 17 years since we started this show. And I was like, 'Selena, let's have this same conversation we're having right now without wine in front of Disney and see what happens' And we did, and they liked it," Henrie shared.

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