Actress and singer Selena Gomez revealed the simple three-word phrase that she was not allowed to say while working for Disney, saying that it was all part of the image she was supposed to project as a role model for girls and young women.

Gomez spent her formative years playing teen wizard Alex Russo on the hit Disney sitcom “Wizards of Waverly Place,” which ran from 2007 to 2012, and she said that she put additional pressure on herself to be the best role model she could be while she was working on the show.

The “Only Murders in the Building” star explained during an interview published Wednesday by Vanity Fair that “I wasn’t a wild child by any means, but I was on Disney, so I had to make sure not to say ‘What the hell?’ in front of anyone. It’s stuff that I was also putting on myself to be the best role model I could be.”

Gomez, who recently went public with her personal struggles with bipolar disorder and anxiety, said that she has since come to believe that being a good role model is more about being authentic and truthful than about cultivating and presenting a specific image: “Now I think being the best role model is being honest, even with the ugly and complicated parts of yourself.”

The actress went on to say that she had worked hard, particularly in recent years, to put distance between herself and who she was while she was working for Disney. She explained that it was not about feeling any shame or regret from the time she spent working there, but more about the fact that she wanted to fully embrace who she had become.

“I definitely feel free of it,” she said of her time as a Disney star. “Sometimes I get triggered. It’s not that I’m ashamed of my past, it’s just that I’ve worked so hard to find my own way. I don’t want to be who I was. I want to be who I am.”

Gomez currently stars alongside comedic legends — and real-life close friends — Steve Martin and Martin Short in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” and she said that the two have become like her “grandpas.”

“I really love them. I don’t like calling them my grandpas, but they kind of are. They’ll tell me the same jokes and I laugh every time,” she said. “What’s funny is Marty will text me, but Steve will not. He has my email, but he won’t send me the email. He will send it to [my assistant]. I think he wants to be polite. It’s very endearing, but he makes it a whole thing.”

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Before the 50-car Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, the train had experienced a mechanical failure on the route, according to train employees.

The 151-car, 18,000-ton train, which began its journey in Madison, Illinois, reportedly broke down on the evening of February 1, according to train employees. This breakdown occurred just two days before the crash in East Palestine.

“We shouldn’t be running trains that are 150 car lengths long,” an employee told CBS News. “There should be some limitations to the weight and the length of the trains. In this case, had the train not been 18,000 tons, it’s very likely the effects of the derailment would have been mitigated.”

But a Norfolk Southern spokesperson told CBS News that “the weight distribution of this train was uniform throughout” with a mid-train locomotive “which helps manage the dynamic forces of the train” and reduces mechanical issues.

“Assigning a ‘reputation’ to a train that fluctuates by thousands of tons on a regular basis is inaccurate,” the spokesperson continued, saying a “longer and heavier train” used to take the same route as the derailed train.

“There’s a good chance the car that derailed had not been properly inspected for some time,” said SMART Transportation Division Alt. National Legislative Director Director Jared Cassity, whose union represents many railroad workers. “You combine that with the added length and tonnage, plus the fact that it had all this hazardous material, and this was predictable. If nothing changes, it will happen again.”

“Two years ago SMART President Jeremy Ferguson warned your publication and anyone that would listen that something like this was going to happen,” a Norfolk Southern employee told Motherboard. “They’re going to keep happening if regulators continue to allow this business model to ravage our nation’s freight rail system in the pursuit of profit. My fear is that these corporations have so much money and political influence that nothing is going to change.”

Another employee added to Motherboard that the derailed train had been nicknamed “32 Nasty.”

“When I was FRA administrator, I was not happy with the lengths of the trains, and they were 80 or 90 cars long,” said former administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Sarah Feinberg. “This train was 50% longer.”

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted in December that Precision Schedule Railroading (PSR), implemented by the railroad industry for cost-efficiency reasons, has catalyzed longer trains and a 28% reduction in staff among the nation’s seven largest freight railroads, including Norfolk Southern.