Justin Bieber turns 25, married and not overcoming his personal ghosts
To the problems of depression due to the fame suffered by the Canadian singer are now added the rumors of a crisis with his wife, the model Hailey Baldwin
Justin Bieber turns 25 at a difficult time. The Canadian singer, married to model Hailey Baldwin, has been in the doldrums for a few months due to the depression he suffers from the fame he achieved early. The artist has confessed on more than one occasion that he has lived surrounded by excesses and, now, they are taking their toll on him.
"I'm emotionally unstable," Justin confessed in an interview with Vogue magazine, where he posed with his recent wife. “I struggle to find peace. I feel like I care a lot and I want people to love me. Hailey is very logical and structured, which I need. With the lifestyle that she lives, everything is very uncertain. I need something that's safe, ”he added. The interpreter of Sorry refers precisely to those years in which money opened the doors to everything and he, being just a teenager, made a lot of money. The boy who became famous with home videos singing and playing the guitar on YouTube published his first single, One Time, at age 15 and from there to stardom. With that song came others like Baby —whose video clip became the most watched with more than 300 million views—, Mistletoe, What do you mean? or Love Yourself, and thus he became the first artist under the age of 18 to have three number one albums in the United States and the United Kingdom. He now has two Grammy Awards and is the only artist with 21 MTV Europe Music Awards.
A success that overwhelmed him, as an artist and as a person and that took its toll on his career and his life. Except for some collaborations, Justin Bieber has not released any album since 2015, which he released Purpose. With the tour for this album, which many called an "apology tour", Bieber began a period in which he seemed to claim that he had put his bad behavior behind him. But after performing more than 150 concerts in 40 countries in 16 months, in the summer of 2017 he canceled the last 14 shows. "I got really depressed on the tour. I haven't talked about this, and I'm still processing a lot of things that I haven't counted. I was alone. I needed some time," he admitted later.
In this new stage Bieber focuses on cultivating his spiritual life. In addition to receiving professional help to address his problems with depression, the artist turns to religion - he often attends Hillsong, a Pentecostal church founded in Australia in 1983 and whose New York branch Bieber and Baldwin are regulars - and performs group therapy. There he tries to fight demons from his past. "You sit on a mat, you put a pillow and you beat up your past. I got over the fact that my mother was depressed for much of my life and my father has anger issues. Things that happened and I'm angry with. ", it counted in Vogue.
He insists that in the model he has found his true refuge, something that according to some American media seems to be shaking. These days rumors circulate about an instability between the couple and some media even point to the fact that Baldwin has asked Bieber for a divorce after finding suspicious messages from her husband with her ex-partner, the singer and actress Selena. Gomez. Information that many of the couple's followers do not support because Gomez, with whom the singer has dated intermittently since 2011 until she married Baldwin, is in a period of detoxification and recovery due to problems with mental health of her.
At the moment none of the three enters the discussion that has formed around them. Selena left the psychiatric center in December where she entered for two months and has been seen in the company of friends. She has also recovered her activity on social networks, where since 2016 she had been the undisputed queen of Instagram, with more than 146 million followers. A few months ago Cristiano Ronaldo dethroned her with 156 million, and just a few days ago Ariana Grande climbed to second position only for a few thousand more fans.
Justin Bieber also accumulates more than 104 million followers and, although he is up to date on his social networks, his activity is not very constant, because at the moment he prefers to focus on other things. Last summer, after years as a nomad, Justin bought a house on the outskirts of Toronto. There he settled with Hailey Baldwin.
Justin and Hailey met on the Today television show in 2009, for which his uncle, actor Alec Baldwin, had gifted him tickets. His father, Stephen, and Justin's mother, Pattie Mallette, struck up a friendship that connected their children, although at first without much enthusiasm. The truth is, the couple didn't develop a true friendship until a few years later, when Hailey began attending the same church as Bieber.
They briefly dated three years ago, and things didn't end well. But in June 2018, they met again. Now it has also been known that when the couple met again, Justin had spent more than a year in self-imposed celibacy. He had what he calls "a problem with sex." It was what was left of his vices, an addiction that had long since ceased to provide her with any kind of pleasure. He decided that not having sex was a way to feel closer to God.
