Child Star Hell: Justin Bieber's Paradiso
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2023
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
In the fourth and final part to our series on Justin Bieber (catch "Justin Bieber's Purgatorio" on our Patreon), we explore the singer's relationship with God, his evolving public relations strategy, and Scooter Braun's future prison sentence.
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Links:
- Justin Bieber cancels rest of 'Purpose' tour without explanation [07/24/2017] [Reuters]
- Justin Bieber Focusing on 'Being Spiritual and Attending Church' After 'Disappointing' Decision to Cancel Tour: Source [07/26/2017] [People]
- Justin Bieber Makes Emotional Apology to Fans After Canceling Tour: 'I Have Let My Insecurities Get the Best of Me' [08/03/2017] [People]
- Justin Bieber Is 'Doing Better' After Turning to Church: 'His Faith Is Really Deep' [08/2017] [People]
- Inside Justin & Selena's Shady Trip To Drug & Gang-Ridden Hollywood Neighborhood [11/03/2017 [Radar]
- Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Run From Alleged Gang Member In Downtown LA — Watch [11/03/2017] [Hollywood Life]
- Justin Bieber Is 'Waiting' for Selena Gomez to Tell Him They're Official, Says Source [11/04/2017] [People]
- Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Spotted at Church Twice in the Same Day [11/06/2017] [People]
- Pastor Carl Lentz Opens Up About Justin Bieber's Faith, Premarital Sex and Relationships [Us Weekly] [11/10/2017]
- Justin Bieber & Selena Gomez Receiving Guidance from Pastor to Avoid 'Same Patterns': Source [12/22/2017] [People]
- 'Wowzers': Justin Bieber Goes Shirtless While Reading the Bible Mid-Flight [01/07/2018] [People]
- Justin Bieber Gets Serious About the Real Meaning of Easter — Then Gets Silly in Bunny Glasses [People] [04/02/2018]
- Justin Bieber goes to church and believes in Jesus, but says he doesn't consider himself 'religious' [02/07/2019] [Insider]
- Justin Bieber Cries During Emotional Church Performance: 'God Is Pulling Me Through a Hard Season' [09/30/2019] [People]
- Justin Bieber instagram post about drugs: [Instagram]
- Justin Bieber Instagram post [March 2019] [Instagram]
- The Secret Life of Mrs. Hailey Bieber [02/05/2020] [Elle]
- Justin Bieber reveals he's battling Lyme disease [01/09/2020] [CNN]
- Justin Bieber Says Hillsong Is Not His Church [Billboard] [01/04/2021]
- The Redemption of Justin Bieber [April 13, 2021] [GQ]
- Justin Bieber Instagram post [01/23/2021] [Instagram]
- Exposing Hillsong: The Pedophile Church That Justin Bieber Made Famous [March 24, 2022] [Daily Beast]
- Justin Bieber says he has facial paralysis due to Ramsay Hunt syndrome [06/10/2022] [CNN]
- Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes Go to Church Together After Stopping Their Tours [ET] [October 27, 2022]
- Brain Doctor to the Stars Labeled a 'Snake-Oil' Salesman [The Daily Beast]
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 | There was a time where I was sipping lean, I was popping pills, |
| 0:04.0 | I was doing molly, you know, shrooms, everything. |
| 0:09.0 | And it was just an escape from me. |
| 0:12.0 | You have all these people around me just kind of hanging on, |
| 0:15.0 | wanting stuff from me, knowing that like I was living this lifestyle |
| 0:19.0 | that they also wanted to live, drinking, smoking. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was living this lifestyle that they also wanted to live drinking smoking |
| 0:22.1 | I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing is popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day |
| 0:27.6 | I freaked out when Justin canceled the tour performing is the thing that he loves most in this world and so for him to say that he didn't want to do it, I knew it had to be pretty serious. |
| 0:38.3 | It just got scary. |
| 0:39.3 | I basically said to myself, I'm like, |
| 0:41.3 | God, if you're real, you get me through this season of stopping these pills and stuff. |
| 0:46.3 | And if you do, I'll do the rest of the work. |
| 0:49.3 | These gays, they're trying to murder me. |
| 0:55.2 | What do I think of her? |
| 0:56.4 | Yes. |
| 0:57.8 | I don't think of her. |
| 1:00.5 | Goodbye. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm on. |
| 1:04.0 | Right about that in the New York fucking post. |
| 1:06.8 | Suddenly confronting the realization that we have to record this episode in particular, and I'm |
| 1:14.5 | harrowed, shocked, destroyed emotionally, disgusted, |
| 1:23.1 | surprised, terrified, traumatized, depressed, violated, emotional, psychotic, almost. |
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