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I don’t want her to go through what I’ve been through,” Justin Beiber said in a 2020 interview, referring to Billie Eilish as fans continue to unearth clips of the singer’s past after Sean “Diddy” Combs was indicted over sex trafficking.
The 30-year-old pop star, who entered the industry at just 15, has publicly dealt with mental health struggles throughout his career. In 2020, while promoting his album Changes in a segment for Apple Music, Bieber reached out to Eilish, who had just skyrocketed to fame, offering her advice and support.
“I don’t wish that upon anybody,” he stated. “So if she needs me, I’m just a call away.”
The clip is just one of many similar examples that netizens have been sharing online, suggesting that Bieber was abused by older celebrities early on, with Combs among them.
A tearful Justin Bieber said that she wanted to “protect” Billie Eilish on a resurfaced interview after Diddy’s sex-trafficking puts a highlight to the dark side of the music industry
Billie Eilish experienced breakthrough success with her album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, which propelled her to global stardom.
Bieber told interviewer Zane Lowe that his road to fame was not only tough but also “dark.”
“Think about how young and impressionable I was, and you have everybody telling me how awesome I am at all times… I want people to understand the psychology of why I potentially could have problems in my life,” he explained.
The singer then went on to confess that he has been living “in shame” throughout his entire life as a star over “stuff in [his] past.”
Bieber did not go into further detail about the source of his shame but told curious fans to pay attention to his lyrics, as he was using that medium to tell “his story” and “hopefully make a difference.”
The clip ends with the singer saying he feels the need to protect Eilish so that she doesn’t lose [it], which fans interpreted to mean “her innocence.”
The interview is one of many examples shared by fans online, who believe the singer was sexually harassed throughout his youth by various celebrities, scarring him
Worried fans were quick to connect the nature of Diddy’s parties, called “Freak Offs,” where he lured women and male sex workers into drug-fueled, multi-day sexual escapades, with footage of a teenage Justin Bieber hanging around the rapper.
Justin Bieber’s father-in-law also uploaded a warning to his followers about a coming “storm,” leading many to speculate that the singer is soon to release a tell-all interview revealing the names of other celebrities implicated in the scandal.
