Document producer and songwriter Benny Blanco opened up about his private life, profession, and psychological well being in a candid new interview on Jake Shane’s hit podcast Therapuss.
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The episode, launched this week throughout YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, sees Blanco reflecting on his relationship with fiancée Selena Gomez, sharing heartfelt tales about his struggles with OCD, and reminiscing about working with a teenage Billie Eilish at the beginning of her profession.
Blanco, who proposed to Gomez in late 2024, admitted that wedding ceremony planning hasn’t formally begun but. “Truthfully, I actually wish to take just a little break. I’ve been working a lot,” he instructed Shane.
“I simply wish to lay in mattress and overlook what day it’s as a result of we’ve been in mattress simply watching stuff. Not normally, however with Selena, I can do all of it day. She makes me wish to hang around and cuddle, simply watch issues, eat meals, and have the most effective time ever.”
He added that the couple hopes to take a seat down this summer time and begin mapping out their huge day. “That wedding ceremony goes to be lit,” Shane teased, with Blanco laughing: “It’ll be chill.”
The dialog additionally delved into Blanco’s lifelong expertise with obsessive-compulsive dysfunction. The multi-platinum hitmaker spoke overtly concerning the rituals he used to carry out as a baby to stave off intrusive ideas. “Once I was a child, I used to have this factor the place I needed to go ‘mmph.’ If I didn’t do it, I believed my mother and father have been going to die,” he revealed. “Now I’ve little issues the place I contact elements of my face or make a faux cough sound—actually a whole bunch of occasions a day. It’s involuntary.”
Regardless of the challenges, Blanco has discovered to handle the compulsions that have been disruptive to others. “I removed all of the issues which are actually annoying to a different particular person. I nonetheless do little issues like ensuring all the pieces in my bathe is dealing with ahead. However that’s insane no matter OCD,” he joked.
Followers have been notably intrigued when Blanco related Wizards of Waverly Place—the Disney Channel sequence that made Gomez a family identify—to Billie Eilish’s breakthrough hit “Dangerous Man.”
“I do know the theme track [of Wizards] as a result of it impressed ‘Dangerous Man,’” Blanco stated. “I labored with Billie when she was legit like 14 years previous.” He defined how he and FINNEAS have been launched via a mutual lawyer earlier than Eilish had even performed a dwell present. “They didn’t want my assist in any respect. They all the time do all the pieces simply the 2 of them, and it’s f—–g unbelievable.”
Blanco’s look on Therapuss joins a formidable roster of visitors, together with Tate McRae, Renee Rapp, Charli XCX, Joe Jonas, and Lorde.