Justin Bieber spoken about his struggles with feeling like “a fraud” on social media – see what he had to say below.
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Last night (March 13), the singer took to his Instagram Stories to get candid about his struggles with impostor syndrome. He wrote in a post backed by a track titled ‘Sneaky Sneaky’ by Gold-Tiger: “People told me my whole life ‘wow Justin u deserve that’ and I personally have always felt unworthy. Like I was a fraud.”
“Like when people told me I deserve something,” he continued, “it made me feel sneaky like ‘Damn if they only knew my thoughts, how judgemental I am, how selfish I really am, they wouldn’t be saying this’. I say all this to say: If you feel sneaky, welcome to the club. I definitely feel unequipped and unqualified most days.”
Late last month, the Canadian singer was seen rapping about being high, sparking concern from the public. The clip came just days after a representative for the ‘Stay’ singer shut down online rumours of drug use, branding the comments as “false” and “harmful”.
In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, the spokesperson said that the public’s fixation on the artist’s health is “exhausting and pitiful and shows that despite the obvious truth, people are committed to keeping negative, salacious, harmful narratives alive.”
They also shut down speculation saying that 2024 was “very transformative for him as he ended several close friendships and business relationships that no longer served him.”
Earlier this month, the rapper sparked more concern after posting a photo of himself with a bong nearby.
Rumours about Bieber’s well-being come following paparazzi photos that went viral in recent weeks, showing the singer looking tired. It also comes in light of Bieber talking openly about his health struggles in recent years. This included revealing his diagnosis with Ramsay Hunt syndrome in 2022 after he cancelled the opening stretch of his North American ‘Justice’ tour due to “sickness”.
As well as comments about his health, there have also been reports that Bieber is back in the studio and planning a major comeback soon. These were heightened when he was seen in the studio at the start of the new year, and again when Mk.gee revealed that he had been working with the singer on new material.
If the studio output comes together as a full album, it will be his first studio release since 2021’s ‘Justice’.
