In February 2011, a 16-year-old Justin Bieber was nearing the peak of his fame when he sat down with considered one of his key musical position fashions on nationwide tv.
Their closeness was evident. Bieber playfully copied his mentor’s each transfer on the interview sofa, aping his hand gestures and speech, and even mimicking the best way he crossed his legs.
It was so hanging that present host Jimmy Kimmel stated to his older interviewee: ‘Do you see what an impression you are making on the younger man? I hope you are going to be an excellent position mannequin to him… what is going on on with you guys?’
‘I believe we have develop into pals in a wierd method,’ got here the reply.
However in fact, that seemingly harmless interplay has now taken on a sinister new that means, for the person sat with Bieber was Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, then aged 41.
In February 2011, a 16-year-old Justin Bieber was nearing the peak of his fame when he sat down with considered one of his key musical position fashions on nationwide TV.
Their closeness was evident. Bieber playfully copied his mentor’s each transfer on the interview sofa, aping his hand gestures and speech, and even mimicking the best way he crossed his legs.
However in fact, that seemingly harmless interplay has now taken on a sinister new that means, for the person who was sat with Bieber was Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs. They’re pictured right here in 2014.
On September 16 this 12 months, the rapper was arrested in New York Metropolis and charged with a set of jaw-dropping crimes starting from alleged intercourse trafficking to racketeering and transportation for the needs of prostitution.
Now as Combs, 54, awaits trial and prosecutors have spoken to over 50 witnesses and victims, who they are saying will expose the utter depravity of his ‘felony enterprise’, questions have been raised over why these chargeable for Bieber allowed Diddy to develop into one thing of a mentor to him as a toddler.
Sources near Bieber, 30, completely advised the Day by day Mail that he ‘ought to by no means have been allowed to celebration with Diddy or anybody else when he was a teen.’
They declare he was ‘thrown to the wolves’ by his mom Pattie Mallette and largely absent father Jeremy Bieber.
Usher, whose file label Bieber was signed to, and who was himself mentored by Diddy as a teen, can also be partly accountable, these sources declare.
There isn’t a proof to recommend Bieber’s mother and father or Usher knew about Diddy’s alleged felony exercise on the time.
In that 2011 interview, Kimmel requested Bieber what they acquired as much as after they frolicked as pals, Combs interjected, saying, ‘he is aware of higher than to be speaking in regards to the issues he does with huge brother Puff on nationwide tv. Every little thing ain’t for everyone.’
Insiders say Bieber was ‘thrown to the wolves’ by his mom Pattie Mallette (left) and largely absent father Jeremy Bieber, who each ‘stepped apart and turned a blind eye to all of it’.
Usher, whose file label Bieber was signed to, and who was himself mentored by Diddy as a teen, can also be partly accountable, these sources say.
In the present day, the ensuing info vacuum surrounding their relationship, and Bieber’s refusal to touch upon the rising allegations towards Combs, has despatched his followers right into a frenzy, disinterring outdated video footage of the pair collectively and speculating wildly over any potential that means.
Of explicit observe:
A 2010 clip through which Combs jokingly grills Bieber, then 16, over why he hasn’t ‘been calling me and hanging out the best way we used to hang around.’
And a weird 2021 clip, through which Combs seems to pat Bieber down, as if to verify whether or not he’s carrying a wire, earlier than Bieber tells him ‘I really like you’ and so they say goodbye.
Followers have additionally began re-examining Bieber’s outdated music lyrics in an try to glean any clues about his relationship with Diddy.
Bieber’s 2020 music ‘Lonely’ – which he has stated is in regards to the ‘powerful chapters’ he skilled as a toddler star – has been circulated on-line with explicit deal with a verse that reads: ‘And all people noticed me sick/And it felt like nobody gave a s**t/ They criticized the issues I did as an fool child.’
As not too long ago as August final 12 months, Bieber featured on Diddy’s album (‘The Love Album’), with Bieber taking to Instagram and writing to his ‘brother’: ‘Wild full circle, love you.’
The pair struck up their unlikely friendship on the 2009 VMAs, when Bieber was a 15-year-old baby-faced breakout star, found the 12 months prior on YouTube by talent-manager Scooter Braun, and Combs was a 40-year-old mogul already price tens of millions of {dollars}.
Bieber had simply been signed by Usher in 2008 who himself lived with Diddy when he was a younger artist.
Usher has since expressed reservations about Diddy’s mentorship, saying the rapper launched him to intercourse, medication and alcohol when he was far too younger and telling MTV in 2010 that he ‘would not cross on any of the recommendation he gave me.’
In 2016, Usher went a step additional. When requested in an interview with Howard Stern if he would ship his personal baby to stay with Diddy, he replied ‘Hell no!’
Sources near Bieber stated that he ‘ought to by no means have been allowed to celebration with Diddy or anybody else when he was a teen.’ He’s pictured right here with Pattie (left) and spouse Hailey (proper).Â
In November 2009, a 15-year-old Bieber spent a now-infamous 48-hour interval with Diddy seemingly unsupervised on the rapper’s residence.
In a video taken throughout that point and shared to YouTube by Bieber, Diddy, then 40, turns to the digicam and says: ‘He is having 48 hours with Diddy, the place we hanging out [sic] and what we’re doing we won’t actually disclose.
‘But it surely’s positively a 15-year-old’s dream. We’re gonna go full, buck full loopy.’
In 2009, Combs ceased internet hosting his well-known ‘White Events’ for A-list pals and allegedly ramped up his seedier, infamous ‘Freak-Offs’ at which most of the crimes listed within the New York indictment are stated to have taken place.
Prosecutors say over the course of ‘a long time’ Combs enlisted legions of staff and prostitutes to stage elaborate, generally days-long, twisted shows at these ‘Freak-Off’ orgies, at which ladies got medication and compelled into sexual acts with male intercourse staff.
Combs allegedly used ‘bodily, emotional, and verbal abuse,’ to power ladies to conform, threatened them with firearms, or ‘hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, at occasions, by their hair’.
He allegedly filmed the encounters and generally watched whereas masturbating.
Throughout a March raid on Combs’s LA and Miami properties, investigators discovered over 1,000 bottles of lubricant and child oil.
A few of these ‘Freak-Offs’ allegedly went on so lengthy that exhausted contributors needed to be given restorative IV drips, whereas others have been left with critical accidents and groups have been introduced in to wash away the mess.
On Tuesday, Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee revealed he’s representing an additional 120 alleged victims, 25 of whom have been underage after they declare Diddy sexually abused them, sometimes drugging them with tranquilizers. No less than one was reportedly a nine-year-old boy.
Whereas there is no such thing as a proof that Bieber was ever at considered one of Diddy’s ‘Freak-Offs’ or ‘White Events’, he actually partied with the rapper throughout his youth.
In 2014, Khloe Kardashian recalled seeing Bieber at a latest occasion the place ‘half the folks there have been butt-naked’. In February the identical 12 months, he appeared on the launch celebration for Combs’s drink model, DeLeon, and was pictured topless.
Combs and Bieber struck up a friendship on the 2009 VMAs, when Bieber, 15, was a breakout star, found the 12 months prior by supervisor Scooter Braun (Pictured right here in 2013 with Usher).
The next 12 months the pair danced collectively on the twenty first celebration of Combs’s son – additionally referred to as Justin – after which, two months later, they each appeared on stage throughout a Miami music pageant.
All of the whereas, Bieber gave the impression to be deteriorating.
In January 2014, he had been stopped by police after racing a Lamborghini in a 30mph zone. He accepted a plea deal for careless driving.
A month later, police discovered marijuana in his limo – no prices have been filed.
In July, he was charged with vandalism and ordered to pay a neighbor $80,900 after he egged their home.
In the meantime, at residence, troubles abounded.
In 2015, Bieber advised Billboard that his relationship along with his mom was ‘fairly non-existent’, including: ‘I used to be distant as a result of I used to be ashamed. I by no means needed my mother to be upset in me and I knew she was. We spent a while not speaking.’
Bieber’s mom, Pattie, had Justin when she was 18, elevating him largely alone after splitting from his father, Jeremy, a number of months after he was born.
She suffered her personal points with medication and dependancy within the years earlier than giving beginning, revealing in a 2008 interview that she had turned to medication to ‘numb the ache’ of childhood sexual abuse, and had as soon as tried suicide.
‘I used to be just about excessive or drunk from the time I awakened, to the time I went to mattress,’ she stated.
Jeremy was absent for a lot of Bieber’s childhood, as soon as leaving for a complete 12 months when Justin was 4. The pair later labored to rebuild their relationship, nonetheless, with Bieber telling GQ in 2016 that he was now ‘lots nearer to my dad than I’m to my mother’.
In January 2014, Bieber had been stopped by police after racing a Lamborghini in a 30mph zone. He accepted a plea deal for careless driving.
In the course of the time he was hanging out with Bieber, Combs was allegedly internet hosting his society occasion White Events and seedier, infamous ‘Freak-Offs’.
The extent of Bieber’s drug use in his teenagers solely turned clear in recent times, with the singer being extra candid about his dependancy struggles. He’s pictured right here final week.Â
The extent of Bieber’s drug use in his teenagers solely turned clear in recent times, with the singer being extra candid about his dependancy struggles, together with admitting he began smoking marijuana aged 12 earlier than happening to abuse drugs and alcohol.
‘My safety would come into my room at evening to verify my pulse,’ he stated in a 2020 documentary. ‘Individuals do not know the way critical it acquired. It was legit loopy scary.’
In one other interview, reflecting on the affect of kid pop-stardom, he stated he needed to guard Billie Eilish – who was taking pictures to world fame on the time – from the experiences he had had.
Wiping away tears, he stated: ‘I do not need her to undergo something I went by. I do not want that upon anyone.’
Representatives for Bieber, his mother and father, Usher and Combs didn’t reply to requests for remark.
However now, as contemporary considerations over Bieber’s well being proliferate – with footage rising in latest days of the star, who turned a father in August, wanting significantly gaunt – followers are questioning if the information of Combs’s alleged crimes is in charge.
