Justin Bieber says he's 'broken' and admits to 'anger issues' after paparazzi spat
'People keep telling me to heal don’t you think if I could have fixed myself I would have already?'
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Justin Bieber says he is battling “anger issues” just days after he went off on photographers in a viral meltdown.
“People keep telling me to heal don’t you think if I could have fixed myself I would have already?” Bieber, 31, wrote in an Instagram post shared with his 294 million followers. “I know I’m broken. I know I have anger issues. I tried to do the work my whole life to be like the people who told me (I) needed to be fixed like them. And it just keeps making more tired and more angry.”
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The Canadian-born pop star said the “harder” he tries “to grow” and better himself, “the more focused” he has become on bettering his mental health.
“Jesus is the only person who keeps me wanting to make my life about others. Because honestly I’m exhausted with thinking about myself lately aren’t you?” he concluded.
Bieber’s message came just days after he got into a wild exchange with paparazzi outside the Soho House in Malibu, Calif., last week.
As photogs asked him if he was worried he could face deportation after President Donald Trump authorized immigration raids in the U.S., Page Six reported that the father of one lashed out. “Stop asking me how it’s going. Get out of here,” he pleaded frustratingly.
“I’m a dad … I’m a husband. You’re not getting it. It’s not clocking to you. It’s not clocking to you that I’m standing on business, is it?” he seethed.
When the shutterbugs said they were standing on a sidewalk, Bieber fired back, “I don’t give a f*** if you’re on the sidewalk. I’m a human f***ing being, you’re standing around my car, at the beach! You know what I’m saying? You don’t think I’m a real f***ing guy, do you? … I don’t care that you’re on the sidewalk … This is weird, bro.”
Staring directly into the camera, Bieber said he didn’t “care” that they have a job to do.
He then predicted they would use the video “out of context” to make him look bad.
“Clearly you are here with an alternate agenda … I don’t know who the f*** is paying you to provoke me, but I’m not the f***ing one,” he said. “OK? Stop provoking me and s*** … I’m not to be f***ed with … I’m a real man with a real family.”
When one snapper tried to wish him a happy Father’s Day, Bieber fired back: “I don’t know you. You don’t go to people you don’t know and say s*** out of nowhere with a camera in their face … It doesn’t matter if I’m a celebrity or not. It doesn’t matter if I’m a public figure … I love my evenings, I love my wife, I love my family and you provoke me and it’s sad.”
Bieber also shocked friends when he shared an alleged text message exchange between himself and an anonymous pal to Instagram in which he publicly ended their friendship after they took issue with his angry outbursts.
“I will never suppress my emotions for someone,” Bieber wrote. “Conflict is part of relationship. If you don’t like my anger, you don’t like me.”
But Bieber’s increasingly volatile relationship with paparazzi has become worrisome for fans.
In April, Bieber also lashed out at shooters for relentlessly hounding him when he’s out in public.
The two-time Grammy winner took to Instagram to let his fans know he won’t be “bullied” as he spoke about the “transactional nature of Hollywood.”
“Everyone telling me to move from LA,” he wrote in a message. “U think I’m gonna get bullied to leave where my influence is most needed? How can we make a change if we run away from the darkness?”
That post came after a viral video earlier this year in which he lashed out at photographers saying all they care about is “money, money, money, money, money.”
Justin and his wife Hailey have also been plagued by rumours that their relationship is on the rocks, but an insider said recently that the two are managing fine.
“Justin is having fun, vibing out and yes, he smokes weed like everyone else. But everything he does is being weaponized against him,” the source told PEOPLE.
“Hailey is not on the verge of wanting a divorce or leaving him. It’s just completely untrue,” the source added. “If anything she’s sad about how hard everyone is being on him now that he finally is coming back out of his shell.”
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