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Singer/actress Selena Gomez and singerJustin Bieber arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter held at Sunset Tower on February 27, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Pop singer Selena Gomez cut images of spray-painted pink horses from her video after drawing flak from animal rights activists.
The horses would have been used for the video of “Love You Like a Love Song,” E! Online reported on Friday.
Singer Pink, who is supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, blasted the idea of the painted horses.
“If there are any animal activists around Malibu at Leo Cabrillo State Beach, there are horses being painted for a stupid music video. Shame,” she said via her Twitter account last month.
However, it appears that Gomez was not entirely supportive of having the horses in her video.
“When Selena was presented the idea for the video, no one informed her the horses would be painted and she had assumed they would be colored in post-production [via special effects],” an insider told E! Online. “When she showed up to the set she was very surprised to see them painted.”
A representative of Gomez told People magazine that the horses were not harmed during the production of the video.
“A non-toxic, vegetable-based powder paint was applied via an airbrush and removed with water. An official from the Humane Society was on set supervising,” the representative said.