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Justin Bieber was just pretending to be a prick
By Andy Malt | Published on Friday 30 January 2015
Justin Bieber has said that he was just “pretending” to be “arrogant”, “conceited” and “basically how I’ve been acting the past year and a half”. So you can strike all those things he did – from the drag racing to the egg throwing to the pissing in a bucket – right off the record and give him a clean slate.
Following an appearance on Ellen DeGeneres’ chat show in the US, Bieber posted a video online saying: “I just wanted to make a video because I wanted to express how I feel right now. Today, I was on Ellen and it was a lot of fun. She’s amazing, it was her birthday, but I was really nervous. I think I was nervous because I was afraid of what people are thinking about me right now. It’s been a minute since I’ve been in a public appearance, and I didn’t want to come off arrogant or conceited or basically how I’ve been acting the past year and a half”.
He continued: “I’m not who I was pretending to be. Why I say I was ‘pretending’ is often we pretend to be something we’re not as a cover up of what we’re truly feeling inside. And there were a lot of feelings going on in there. Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard”.
Of course, this doesn’t really tally with what his manager Scooter Braun said in 2012, when he told Rolling Stone that being a “prick” was just Bieber’s natural state.