Justin Bieber: ‘heavy drug use’ and ‘disrespecting women’
Bieber, now 25, was discovered on YouTube by talent manager Scooter Braun when he was just 13.
Stardom puts “an insane pressure and responsibility” on a child’s brain at a time when their “emotions and frontal lobes (decision making) aren’t developed yet”, he said.
The star presently wedded to Hailey Baldwin, told fans there were days in his past when he felt overpowered by life and experienced gloom, here and there coming to the heart of the matter “where you would prefer not to live any longer”.
He stated: “I began doing truly substantial medications at 19 and mishandled the majority of my connections. I ended up angry, ill-bred to ladies, and irate.
“I ended up removed to everybody who adored me, and I was taking cover behind a shell of an individual that I had moved toward becoming. I sensed that I would never turn it around.
“It’s taken me years to skip over from all these horrendous choices, fix broken connections, and change relationship propensities. Fortunately, god favored me with exceptional individuals who adore me for me.”
The Sorry singer says “money, clothes, cars, accolades, achievements and awards” made no difference to his happiness, and finding fame at such a young age meant he struggled to deal with the real world.
“Everyone did everything for me, so I never even learned the fundamentals of responsibility,” he said. “By this point, I was 18 with no skills in the real world, with millions of dollars and access to whatever I wanted.”
Bieber also wrote about his fall from grace, going from being “one of the most loved and adored people in the world to the most ridiculed, judged and hated”.
The says it took him years to bounce back and fix broken relationships but that he is now “navigating the best season of my life”.
Bieber put his current positive mindset down to his marriage, which he describes as a “crazy new responsibility”.
A devout Christian, he also spoke religion, telling anyone struggling with life: “Jesus loves you.”