Justin Bieber sparked outrage after fans spotted ‘unsafe’ detail in photo with baby son
Warning: This article contains discussion of drug addiction, which some readers may find distressing.
Concerned Justin Bieber fans implored the Canadian to start ‘acting’ like a parent earlier this year after he uploaded a series of snaps, including one of his son, to Instagram.
31-year-old Bieber introduced the world to his and wife Hailey Bieber’s first child last August with a sweet social media post that read: “Welcome home, Jack Blues Bieber”.
Since then, the one-year-old has featured heavily in the promotion for his father’s Swag album and has become a regular fixture on both his and 28-year-old Hailey’s profiles. But back in May, one of these posts landed the dad-of-one in hot water with fans.
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Bieber previously uploaded a carousel to the social media platform, which featured an image of the star smoking something. He was joined in the same location by his son in another snap.
It appeared that both photographs had been taken on the same rural retreat, with the father-son duo also being joined by a select few members of JB’s posse.
Captioned: 'Gonna be a good summer', the collection was quickly inundated with fans, questioning why the ‘Baby’ hitmaker was seemingly smoking in front of his only child.
"Don't smoke in front your kid,” one echoed. Another questioned: "Doing drugs with the baby around?"
A third penned a lengthy message, beginning: "Children are particularly vulnerable to health problems from exposure to smoke, including both cigarette and marijuana (pot) smoke."
They added: "Even smoke that lingers on clothes or furniture (known as thirdhand smoke) can be harmful. So…maybe consider that. You’re a parent now. Act like one."
Someone else asked Bieber to be ‘better like [they] know [he] can be’, while a fifth commented: "Bestie you did not just smoke in front of baby Jack."
"I hope that baby wasn’t exposed to marijuana smoke…," confessed another.
Bieber has been candid about his various vices in the past, admitting to having a dependency on both drugs and alcohol when he was younger.
In 2019, he told Vogue how he’d previously used illicit substances as a coping mechanism.
“Drugs put a screen between me and what I was doing," he shared.
"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.”
Last year, the ‘Peaches’ singer explained that during the height of his substance abuse, he’d wake up and ‘pop a pill’ and ‘smoke a blunt’ before even starting the day.
“So it just got scary,” he explained.
Recalling exactly how he turned things around, Bieber added: "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.”
Tyla has previously reached out to representatives of Justin Bieber for further comment.
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Topics: Celebrity, Hailey Bieber, Health, Instagram, Justin Bieber, Parenting, Social Media
Ella Scott