Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, flipped their mental-health journeys into a buzzy start-up. It all fell apart.

By

Angelina Chapin,

a features writer for The Cut who covers gender, crime, and culture.

She was previously an enterprise reporter at HuffPost, where she traveled to the border and reported on Trump's family separation policy. She has also written for The Guardian and MEL magazine.