Justin Bieber spoke about embracing spirituality, understanding his marriage to Hailey Bieber wouldn’t solve his personal problems, and how it’s all led him to a positive place now.
The 28-year-old spoke to Apple Music’s Ebro Darden, who shared with People about embracing spirituality in his life, realizing his marriage to Hailey Baldwin Bieber wouldn’t solve his personal problems and how it’s all led him to a positive place today.
“It’s a journey. I remember when I first got married, I hit a little bit of an emotional breakdown because I thought marriage was going to fix all my problems and it didn’t,” Bieber told the radio host. “It just kind of was a reflection of like, man, you’re a bit of a hypocrite man.”
Bieber continued, “You want your wife to do something that you’re not doing and it’s like, it’s hard sometimes to look in the mirror and really have to realize, man, maybe you’re not the person that you necessarily thought you were.” The “Honest” singer continued, “And that’s just a result of trauma and life circumstances.”
He shared how he’s been positively impacted by religion’s increased role in life. “But for me, obviously I’ve been so just very public about my faith journey and how my relationship with Jesus has helped me to just not be so hard on myself,” he said. “Just the idea that I’m forgiven and that he’s walking me through this journey and day by day, I get to just get better and better and not be too hard on myself.”
Bieber explained, “I think that that’s ultimately what’s going to encourage the people of the world of like, it’s discouraging out here sometimes, life smacks you in the face and it can be hard to get back up.” The Drew House founder expressed hope for other to form a strong relationship with God like he has.
“But when you can have a perspective that God is not an angry dude, he is a loving, considerate, compassionate God who knows what we’re going through and just wants us to be the versions of ourselves. And so that for me in that perspective has really changed everything man.”
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Bieber also revealed in the Apple Music interview that he’s working on a new album to follow 2021’s Justice, with included hits like “Holy” with Chance the Rapper, “Peaches” with Daniel Caesar and Giveon, and “Ghost.”
“I don’t think there’s a date yet, but I do know that we’re wrapping it up,” he told Ebro, per Billboard. “It’s almost done. It sounds really good. I’m really excited about it. I got a lot of cool features and yeah, it should be dropping not too long from now.”
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John Mayer will also appear as a guest on the musician’s seventh studio album. “He’s someone who I’ve looked up to for a long time,” Bieber said of the 44-year-old “Last Train Home” performer. “So, we were at Henson the Studio, and I was working on this song and he came in and he’s like, ‘Can I go in the booth:’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, bro, go in.”
“And so, he went in the booth and then he came out and he laid a guitar solo and it was just like, it was mind-blowing to see him actually operate in his gift like that, being able to like see it first-hand, because like he is on another level. It’s insane.”
As we wait for new music from the Biebs, listen to Justice below and let us know your favorite song by either leaving a reaction at the bottom of the post or by sending us a tweet at @celebsecrets.
