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Netflix's 'Selena' shows the encounter between the singer and a young Beyoncé

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About 11 minutes into part 2, episode 6, Selena (Christian Serratos) is seen shopping at an outdoor mall in Texas alongside her mother and sister.

Coincidentally, girls and their mother are on their way to a frozen yogurt shop when their paths cross. 

Starstruck, the eldest girl stops on the spot when she recognizes the singer. 

"What are you doing?" asks the mother. "Who are you looking at? Who's that?"

"Selena," responds the eldest daughter, quietly. "A famous singer. Be quiet."

"You're a singer, too. Tell her," the mother encourages.

The daughter refuses and Selena passes by, waving and saying, "Hey."

The girl sheepishly says, "Hi," as Selena carries on her way.

The audience then learns this young girl is Texas native, Beyoncé Knowles. She was with her mother, Tina Knowles, and sister, Solange.

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If you're wondering whether Beyoncé ever really met Selena, she did. The brief encounter wasn't simply engineered for the Netflix series.

"I did actually meet Selena in the Galleria Mall in Houston, but I didn't say much to Selena because I wasn't a celebrity," Beyoncé said in an old interview clip on MTV Tres.

The way the "Sorry" singer recalled the encounter during that interview was quite similar to how it would later be depicted on the Netflix series. 

"I just saw her and said, 'Hello,' and kept it moving," Beyoncé said, adding that she heard Selena on the radio while growing up in Texas. 

"Even though I didn't know exactly what she was singing, it helped me in the studio with my pronunciation," Beyoncé said. 

In a 2007 interview, the singer told People she listened to Selena "all the time" growing up after a friend recommended one of her albums.


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