“This is serious, guys.

Obviously, my body is telling me to slow down.”

In June 2022, the most famous child prodigy of the century, Justin Bieber (London, Canada, 1994), released a brief message through his social networks in which he showed how Ramsay Hunt syndrome had paralyzed one side of his head. expensive, and consequently he was forced to cancel his tour,

Justice World Tour

, and temporarily retire from the stage.

Today, March 1, 2024, the Canadian boy who rose to fame at just 15 years old for uploading videos to YouTube, turns 30, with an uncertain future, and with a huge number of fans - on Instagram, he has almost 300 millions of followers—impatiently awaiting good news.

Justin Bieber, who was a regular on television sets, in the headlines of the international press and on any media platform, has disappeared from the spotlight and everyone is wondering why he doesn't want to sing his world-popular songs again, like

Baby

or

Sorry

, on stage.

The latest news about Bieber was made public this February, when the singer Usher, whose career in the music industry cannot be understood without Bieber, invited the Canadian to participate in the Super Bowl intermission show, the most anticipated event of the year that accumulated, this 2024, more than 200 million views.

“Justin wasn't ready for it, he just wasn't feeling it.”

Usher was, along with manager Scooter Brown – who has also worked with names like Demi Lovato and Taylor Swift – who brought Bieber's talent to the surface.

At that time, he was just a kid with a father who had disappeared from the map and whose mother, who was only 17 years old when she became pregnant, trafficked drugs and had attempted suicide on occasion.

“He is like a son to me,” the American singer went on to say, who has become a mentor for the Canadian and who has followed him in each of his steps.

Until Justin fell into the world of drugs, and his behavior was labeled by the media as that of a “wayward child,” Usher acted as a father both inside and out.

“You know what I think?

“I feel like I'm talking about someone who has had difficulties,” he responded in favor of his friend in 2016 on The

Howard Stern Show

.

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There were a couple of years, between 2013 and 2015, when the internet woke up every morning with new news about Justin Bieber.

One day he was arrested, another he punched a fan, another he offended a group, a country or an ancient culture.

Behind that string of mischief, which turned Bieber into “the most hated person in the world,” in his own words, there was anxiety, drug and alcohol abuse, and promiscuity.

If anyone can boast of an extensive list of mistakes he has committed in public, it is Justin Bieber: from a complaint for driving drunk on the streets of Miami, to abandoning his monkey,

Mally

, in Germany.

A number of antics that led him to become a particularly criticized personality in the media: insulting Bill Clinton while he urinates in a mop bucket;

visit the Anne Frank house-museum and affirm that the Jewish woman murdered at the hands of the Nazis during World War II “would have been a

belieber

”;

sweeping the floor of her house with an Argentine flag;

praying at the wrong Buddhist monument in Japan;

throw racist jokes on his social networks;

finishing a concert after singing just one song, ignoring his fans... Even the Chinese authorities banned the artist from entering because they considered him an example of bad behavior.

Addictions led him to fall into a cesspool from which he is still recovering.

At that time, while he slept, his agents took shifts at night to check if he was breathing normally.

In 2015, when he became truly aware of his behavior, Bieber embarked on a dizzying public apology campaign that put him back at the top of the music industry.

“I went from being a small town kid to someone who everyone told was great.

Whom everyone loved.

And if they repeat it to you many times you end up believing it.

I didn't have to do anything, there was always someone willing to do it for me, so I never learned the fundamental concept of responsibility.

I had millions in the bank, I could do whatever I wanted and I didn't have any real skills,” he recounted in a 2019 Instagram post.

Justin Bieber photographed on December 7, 2014, in Burbank (California). Allen Berezovsky (Getty Images)

Is it too late now to say sorry?

(Is it too late to ask for forgiveness?) ―chorus of the single

Sorry

(2015)

―.

Despite the aforementioned, Justin Bieber's fans have always been loyal to his idol.

The long-awaited maturity arrived after years of waiting.

Even though everyone wonders how he did it, his musical talent is indisputable: “Everyone, when he starts growing up, realizes, 'Man, I did some dumb shit when I was younger.'

It's not just me... If he could go back, he really wouldn't change much.

I think that's my whole journey.

“Those things made me who I am,” the artist confirmed in 2016 during an interview with the American magazine

GQ

.

A personal transformation that was also noted in his, at that time, new album

Purpose

, whose success, as Bieber himself has stated in multiple media outlets, he attributes to God.

“You don't need to go to church to be a Christian.

Going to Taco Bell doesn’t make you a taco.”

With this simile, Bieber explained how he helped him go to the afterlife to overcome his emotional and physical problems.

“I've let my insecurities get the best of me.

I have let my bad relationships dictate the way I act and treat people.

“I have let bitterness, jealousy and fear lead my life,” he stated in 2017 in one of his now classic

venting

posts on Instagram.

A dysfunctional relationship and an early marriage

Justin Bieber's musical career has always been overshadowed by his love life.

In 2009, the Canadian met Selena Gomez, who at that time was one of the queens of the Disney Channel.

With her, he had an on-and-off relationship for eight years that became especially popular in the media, and which is still being talked about.

The actress and the singer were anything but stable, starring in scenes that have remained in the memory of many fans, such as when Orlando Bloom punched Bieber in the face in 2014.

The British newspaper

The Guardian

called it “the most pathetic celebrity brawl in history.”

The dispute arose after the singer made a pass at Miranda Kerr—even while he was with Gomez—the Victoria's Secret model, and then Bloom's wife.

The really interesting thing about the whole story is that, after years of enmity, in 2016 the situation heated up again when rumors spread that Gomez and Bloom had had an affair.

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber captured at a basketball game in Los Angeles (California), on April 17, 2012. Noel Vasquez (Getty Images)

Perhaps

Jelena

, as their followers named their relationship, has been more damaging to the young actress than to the Canadian.

Or maybe for both.

But over the years it has been Selena Gomez who has wanted to share with her fans how she felt in her relationship, and what the consequences have been that she has experienced after having lived immersed in a toxic relationship and Bieber getting married. with model Hailey Baldwin, on September 30, 2019, a few months after breaking up with her.

There have been many hints that both have been released through their social networks.

The war between the two is another unfortunate case of two women who are confronted by the public for the fact that they have shared a partner.

However, the person to whom the army of fans of the two singers have directed their hatred during all these years for the supposed simultaneity and to whom they have demanded again and again to clarify what happened has not been Justin Bieber, but his new companion, who has been accused time and again of being

a homewrecker

.

"A lot of the continued hate comes from the motto of 'Oh, you stole from Justin.'

And I guess that just comes from the fact that they wish he had ended up with someone else.

And nothing happens.

You can wish for it all you want, but it is simply not the case,” declared her still-wife on the

Call Her Daddy

podcast

in September 2022.