Singer blames past erratic behaviour on child stardom and credits marriage, his faith and friends for helping him
Justin Bieber has shared an emotional essay about how childhood stardom led him to make a string of bad decisions and become “the most hated person in the world”, resulting in thoughts of killing himself. “Sometimes it can get to the point where you don’t even want to live any more,” he wrote in a long note posted on Instagram.
“I went from a 13-year-old boy in a small town to being praised left and right by the world, with millions saying how they loved me and how great I was … You hear these things enough as a young boy and you actually start believing [them].”