In 2022, we’re still, in a way, talking about Jelena (the popular name of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez’s very dead romance.) Monday, call her daddy lowered an eyebrow teasing excerpt from Alex Cooper’s upcoming interview with Hailey Bieber, out Wednesday.
In the clip, Cooper asks Hailey point-blank if she’s “ever been with Justin romantically at the same time as [Gomez].” Hailey replies, “It’s so crazy, I literally never talked about it. A lot of the hate and perpetuation comes from, like, “Oh, you stole it.” In a separate clip, Hailey says, “It’s about people who know the truth, because there is truth.”
The world, on the edge of its seat, now awaits his response.
Earlier in the teaser, Cooper asked, “How has being married to someone with that level of fame impacted your identity?” Hailey replied, “Where to start?” The interview comes about a year after Cooper appeared on Hailey’s YouTube channel for inexplicably snacking on bagels and playing Heads Up in Hailey’s bathroom.
Rumors have indeed swirled for years about Justin’s possible overlapping relationship with Gomez and Hailey, particularly among Gomez stans, who have long found it suspicious that just two months after Gomez and Justin split for the final time in March or April 2018, he announced his engagement to Hailey in June. Hailey’s comments in 2020 fueled further speculation: “People don’t know either, we were talking for a while before we got back together,” Hailey Told Ashley Graham on her podcast, pretty big problem. “Contrary to popular belief, he had been single for a while and I was single and we were just trying to figure out life.” Interesting…
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In April, Hailey job a TikTok seemingly aimed at Gomez fans who constantly comment on his posts. “Leave me alone at this point. I mind my business. I’m not doing anything. I do not say anything. Please leave me alone,” she said. “Enough time has passed where it is valid to leave me alone. Please, sincerely. This is my only request. Leave me alone. Be miserable elsewhere, please. The fans, at the time, had taken particular problem with Hailey posting a TikTok of herself lip-syncing to Justin’s 2009 song “One Time,” which is said to be about Gomez. Bieber once called a Gomez fan “a sad excuse for a human,” after the fan taunted him and Hailey in the comments section of an Instagram Live 2020.
Gomez and Justin dated for about eight years starting in 2010. But during those eight years while they were “off,” the two pop icons dated plenty of other people. Gomez, to his credit, bagged stars like Zedd, Orlando Bloom and The Weeknd (and so called Chris Evans!); and before rekindling their romance and getting engaged in 2018, Justin and Hailey were first related in 2014.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Hailey’s upcoming interview with Cooper is the timing of it all – it’s been years and years of acrimony between Gomez stans and Jailey shippers (who can forget when crowds of fans sung “Selena! Selena!” when Hailey and Justin arrive at the Met Gala in 2021?). But Gomez recently announcement his upcoming AppleTV+ documentary my mind and mewhich will be released on November 4, and fans are speculate that Hailey’s interview is something akin to damage control, or an attempt to divert attention from a documentary it might not be flattering for Justin and Hailey. (The interview, of course, could also just be a promotion for Hailey’s new skincare line, Rhode – heaven knows she might need it with some fierce new competitors like Brad Pitt’s genderless skincare line!)
Fans certainly have good reason to suspect that Gomez might not have good things to say about Justin, if she ends up mentioning it. In one of her most candid interviews about her love life to date, Gomez called her relationships “cursed” in 2021. “I think most of my relationship experiences have been cursed,” she said. declared. Told vogue australia. “I was too young to be exposed to certain things when I was in a relationship. I guess I needed to figure out what that word was for me, because I felt so much less than in past relationships and I never really felt equal.Fans immediately assumed the quote was referring to her relationship with Justin.
At the time, before the release of his album Rare, Gomez told the magazine that “the best things happen now” and alluded to her song “Lose You to Love Me” which is widely considered a breakup anthem about her relationship with Justin. “The biggest thing in my music was ‘Lose You to Love Me,'” she said. “I remember I had a moment where I couldn’t believe it, because the first and second day the reactions were crazy, and I remember I smiled and thought to myself: “That’s why it’s worth it. All those years of confusion and love and all that…and it was finally a clean slate. And it wasn’t even because everyone loved him; it was just a realization of why i went through everything i went through.
With “Lose You to Love Me,” it looks like Gomez has said his peace about his relationship with Justin — and on Wednesday, Hailey will (hopefully!) say hers on call her daddy.