Everything was not what it seemed.

Despite rising to fame portraying Alex Russo on Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” in 2007, Selena Gomez wasn’t sure the show would happen.

At the time, the young star, now 33, was making her rounds at Disney, but nothing was getting greenlit.

“I was on three pilots for the Disney Channel,” Gomez shared while on the “Therapuss With Jake Shane” podcast on Wednesday.

“One was the spinoff of ‘Lizzie McGuire,’ one was the spinoff of ‘The Suite Life of Zach and Cody,’ and the last one was ‘Wizards.’ So all of them didn’t get picked up, and I was just kind of at my wits’ end, but not in a bad way. I just thought, ‘Okay, well, this isn’t going to work out.'” 10

“Wizards” ended up being the one pilot to land.

“‘Wizards’ got picked up, and

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