Justin Bieber has shared a cryptic personal message in which he says he “hates” himself when he feels himself becoming “inauthentic”.
The vulnerable comments were made in an Instagram post this weekend (March 22), alongside a seemingly light-hearted video of himself and friends – including Jensen McRae – playing a psychedelic jam on keyboard, drums and other instruments around a pool table in his Beverly Hills home.
“I think I hate myself sometimes when I feel myself start to become inauthentic,” he wrote in the caption to the post. “Then I remember we’re all being made to think we’re not enough but I still hate when I change myself to please people.”
Bieber’s comments seem to chime with another post he sent earlier this month, in which he addressed his struggles with feeling like a “fraud” on social media. “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.”
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’.
