Child Star Hell: Justin Bieber's Inferno
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
This week on Child Star Hell, "Justin Bieber's Inferno", we begin to examine how the patron saint of "Bieber Fever" went from an unknown Youtube prodigy... to the most famous kid on earth... to the most hated man in America.. all in just five years!
Links:
- Justin Bieber Is Living the Dream [NYT] [12/31/2009]
- Scoop on the pastors we're gonna mention: [Premier Christianity]
- Justin Bieber Filmed Sleeping In Bed By Sexy Brazilian Girl — Watch [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber Parties At A Brothel In Brazil — Report [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber: Hooking Up With Korean Pop Singers While On Tour? [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber: See The Selena Gomez Look-Alikes From His Brothel Trip [Hollywood Life]
- Pattie Mallette Says Baby Justin Bieber's First Word Was 'Money' [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber Partied With 35 Strippers In Australia — Report [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber arrested on drunken driving, resisting arrest charges [CNN] [January 24, 2014]
- Justin Bieber pleads no contest in egging case, gets probation [July 9, 2014] [CNN]
- Justin Bieber pleads guilty to careless driving, makes donation in DUI case [August 13, 2014] [CNN]
- JUSTIN BIEBER MY MOM GIVES ME DRUGS [01/23/2014] [TMZ]
- Justin Bieber scoured NYC for pools to get baptized [02/14/2014] [Page Six]
- Justin Bieber heads to church in white robe (and brings pals Kendall Jenner and Hailey Baldwin with him) (Nov 7, 2014) [Daily Mail]
- Watch Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Reunite [May 25, 2015] [Billboard]
- THE DEEP END [Sept 2015] [Complex]
- Justin Bieber found guilty of assault, careless driving in Canada [July 2015] [CNN]
- Justin Bieber Would Like to Reintroduce Himself [GQ] [02/11/2016]
- Michelle Obama advises Justin Bieber's mom to 'be very present in his life right now' [NY Daily News]
About:
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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| 0:00.0 | Management started contacting us, different managers and stuff. |
| 0:03.0 | And my mom again was like, you know, sorry, Justin, like, we don't have a lawyer. |
| 0:09.0 | So we finally got in contact. |
| 0:12.0 | This guy contacted us named Scooter, who's my manager now, and basically stalked us a little bit, |
| 0:18.0 | kind of got in contact with us, and finally my mom was calling him back to, you know, say, listen, stop calling me. And he was like, you know, I really see a lot in your son. Like, I can help you guys. And my mom was really skeptical. At first, they ended up talking for a couple hours. And he, um, he knew some lawyers that we could, you know, talk to and stuff so we ended up flying to |
| 0:39.6 | Atlanta free free just for him to you know check check us out guess get to know |
| 0:44.9 | us and this is scooter yes yeah and we ended up signing a deal with with usher |
| 0:51.4 | a couple months later these gays they're trying to murder me |
| 0:55.0 | what do i think of her yes i don't think of her goodbye i'm on right about down in the new york |
| 1:08.5 | fucking post i have to be honest with you. I have to be honest with you. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.1 | This is maybe the hardest thing I've ever admitted on the podcast. |
| 1:20.5 | And I'm not proud of it. |
| 1:22.3 | I'm not proud of it. |
| 1:23.5 | I don't love it. |
| 1:25.1 | I don't accept it as my reality. |
| 1:27.9 | I don't take it on. |
| 1:29.7 | But I have to be honest with our viewers. |
| 1:31.9 | You have to live your truth. |
| 1:33.0 | I have to be honest with everyone else. |
| 1:34.9 | And I've never been more serious that I... |
| 1:39.3 | I have to get this off my chest, which is... |
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