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Selena Gomez, her mom, and their company co-founder face a lawsuit with accusations of defrauding investors of mental health startup Wondermind.
Singer and actress Selena Gomez, her mother Mandy Teefey, and their company co-founder Daniella Pierson are among the defendants in a lawsuit filed by the investors of Wondermind, Gomez’s mental health startup. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, the lawsuit alleges that nearly $1.2 million was invested in Wondermind based on false representation.
Court documents reveal that the limited liability companies Wondermind SRS 44 and Bespoke Wondermind SPV claimed that leadership made misrepresentations to investors. That includes claims that the 34-year-old Gomez would be “intimately involved” in the project.
“Gomez purported to sign a contract obligating her to perform and then ignored it,” the filing read. “The partnerships did not exist. The initiatives never materialized. The app was never built. And for three years, while the company quietly collapsed around them, not one of its founders, officers, or directors said a word to the investors whose money was funding the collapse.”
Investors allegedly learned of Wondermind’s supposed mismanagement when The Cut published an article last September that claimed Teefey was accused of doing drugs at Wondermind’s office by former employees. Teefey has denied the allegations.
Further, the complaint cites a Forbes piece from August 2025 that detailed tensions at the company, which allegedly led Teefey to “push out” Pierson less than two years after Wondermind had launched. A spokesperson for Pierson said they “would not characterize it as ‘pushed out.'”
Gomez, Teefey, and Pierson launched Wondermind in 2021 with the goal of creating “a space to work it all out every day with candid conversations, physical tools, daily content, and a supportive community.”
“One day, we were all talking about it and realized there was no easy, inclusive space where people could come together to explore, discuss, and navigate their feelings,” reads Wondermind’s mission statement. “So we thought, why not make it happen? And Wondermind was born.”
Gomez has been open about her personal mental health struggles and has said that it was vital for her to use her platform to bring more attention to mental health awareness. Of launching Wondermind, she told Entrepreneur, “Something I’ve always tried to do in my career is make sure I lend my voice to places where it matters.”