This article contains discussions of addiction, which may be distressing for some readers.
Justin Bieber has revealed that there was a time when his security team had to monitor him overnight to ensure his wellbeing after a significant decision to change his life.
The artist has been open about his battle with addiction and his commitment to quitting drugs.
In the docuseries Justin Bieber: Seasons, the “Peaches” singer candidly discussed the state of his life before he chose sobriety.
During this period, his security staff were tasked with checking on him as he slept.
This meant entering his room during the night to monitor his pulse and be ready to intervene if necessary.
Bieber explained: “My security and stuff were coming into the room at night to check my pulse – like people don’t know how serious it got, like it was legit crazy scary.”
Now 30, Bieber successfully achieved sobriety, after which he met his wife Hailey, with whom he now shares a child.
Reflecting on Bieber’s transformation since their meeting, Hailey remarked: “Justin and I were never really in each other’s lives until he chose to get sober and was trying to come off of the drugs, almost kind of himself.”
Bieber described how the situation had become ‘scary’, leading him to a pivotal choice to pursue sobriety.
He recalled: “I basically said to myself, ‘God, if you’re real, you get me through this season of stopping these pills and stuff, and if you do, I’ll do the rest of the work’, and then I did that, and then I was good from there.”
Bieber acknowledged that although he managed to quit drugs, he hadn’t addressed the underlying reasons for his substance use.
He admitted: “I got off the pills, but I never went to the root of everything.”
The singer also previously discussed what he believed triggered his addiction in an interview with Vogue.
He shared with the publication: “Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing.
“It got pretty dark. I think there were times when my security was coming in late at night to check my pulse and see if I was still breathing.”
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