Justin Bieber posted a video for his fans on Facebook on Wednesday night, where he explained he is in a different place than he was a year ago.
As the clip opened, the singer admitted to feeling jitters when he taped Thursday’s episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
“I was really nervous and I think I was nervous because I’m just — I was afraid of what people are thinking about me right now,” he said in the video. “It’s been a minute since I’ve been in a public appearance and I didn’t want to come off arrogant or conceited or basically how I’ve been acting the past year, year and a half.”
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The “Baby” singer went on to suggest that the image he presented to the public in the last eighteen months, wasn’t who he really is.
“I’m not who I was pretending to be and why I say ‘pretending’ is often we pretend to be something we’re not as a cover-up of what we’re truly feeling inside and there [were] a lot of feelings going on in there,” he continued. “Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Growing up in general is hard. But yeah, I just felt awkward up there. I felt like people were judging me and I really want people to know how much I care,” he said.
Justin, 20, concluded the clip by sharing with fans his softer side.
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“I’m a person who genuinely cares and although what’s happened in the past has happened, I just want to make the best impression on people and be kind and loving and gentle and soft and as — although people can call me a softy, that’s how my mom raised me,” he said, as the clip ended.
Earlier on Wednesday, Justin released two teasers for a new song that seems to tap into the heartbreak he felt after splitting with Selena Gomez.
— Paige Feigenbaum
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