Justin Bieber Once Opened Up About His ‘Turbulent’ Past With Addiction, Admitted It Was An ‘Escape’ For Him, Deets

Justin Bieber has been vocal and open about his struggles with mental health and drug addiction. The pop star who gained global recognition at a young age has often reflected on his turbulent past in his 10-part YouTube docuseries, Justin Bieber: Seasons. The 30-year-old singer, who recently shared he’s expecting his first child with his wife, Hailey Baldwin Bieber, once talked about his inner demons and battle with addiction.

In one of the seasons of the docu series titled The Dark Season, the Yummy singer reflected on his anxiety, addiction, mental health issues, and more, which quite differs from the first four episodes of the web series. The fifth episode, which opens with a trigger warning stating that this episode “contains raw and honest discussions about addiction and anxiety,” featured Bieber’s candid discussion about the first time he smoked weed at the age of 13. He described himself as “really dependent on it.”

In the episode, Bieber further revealed that he started drinking lean, also known as purple drank or sizzurp, taking pills and doing other drugs, and described them all as an “escape.” During the discussion, Bieber’s wife also appeared and talked about her husband’s hurdles sharing, “I think when you take somebody very, very young and they start to get horrible, crazy, crippling anxiety and it goes undiagnosed and you don’t know what it is that you’re feeling. You start to self-medicate because it makes you feel better, just helping not to feel anything.”