Hailey Bieber wants to silence the rumors. In an upcoming episode of call her daddy podcast, the model and media personality will speak publicly for the first time about her husband Justin’s former relationship with actor and singer Selena Gomez and reveal the “truth” behind those dating crossover rumours.
In a trailer for the episode, podcast host Alexandra Cooper asked Hailey about her marriage experience to Justin Bieber and how her intense level of fame impacted her own identity. “Where do I start?” Hailey joked.
Cooper also asked Hailey about the rumors surrounding the timeline of her relationship with Justin. “Your husband was in a very public relationship,” she said in the clip, referring to Justin’s ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez. ” The people were obsessed with them being together. Have you ever been romantically involved with Justin at the same time as her?
“Uh…that’s so crazy. I literally never talked about it, ever,” Hailey replied. “A lot of the hate and perpetuation comes from, like, ‘Oh, you stole it!’ These are people who know the truth, because there is a truth.
ICYMI: Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez dated for nearly a decade. Their highly publicized relationship, nicknamed Jelena by fans, was last rekindled in the fall of 2017 before officially ending in March 2018. As noted by E! News, Gomez reportedly “completely quit” JB in May. A month later, in June, Bieber was spotted out in public with Hailey.
Justin and Hailey — longtime friends who sparked dating rumors in 2014 and publicly dated in 2016 — got engaged in July 2018 and officially married in September of that year.
Although the couple recently celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary, Jelena has always been a point of contention in their marriage. Fans have suggested Justin was unfaithful to Selena, claiming Hailey ‘stole’ him at the Only murders in the building star. Since 2018, fans have continued to send hate to Hailey online.
In 2020, Justin defended his wife during an Instagram Live after a fan urged others to “bombard” Hailey with hate messages. “This sad apology from a human just encouraged people on video to literally go after my wife telling people to say my previous relationship was better [and] so on,” Justin said. “It’s extremely difficult to choose the royal road when I see people like this trying to get together to get people together to bully the person I love most in the world. It’s not right.”
In April 2022, Hailey sent a message to social media trolls on TikTok: “I mind my own business. I do nothing, I say nothing. Please leave me alone. Enough time has passed where it’s worth leaving me alone. Please, sincerely. This is my only request. Leave me alone. Be miserable elsewhere, please. Although she never explained what prompted her to make the video, many believed she was addressing the hatred of Jelena’s supporters.
“People don’t know either, we were talking for a while before we got back together,” Hailey told Ashley Graham during her appearance on the model. pretty big problem podcast in 2020. “Contrary to popular belief, he had been single for a while and I was single, and we were just trying to figure out life.”
In the four years of their marriage, Hailey hasn’t publicly addressed the speculation surrounding Justin’s relationship with Selena or the hate she receives from Jelena fans…until now. At Hailey’s call her daddy interview, which promises the “truth”, will be published on Wednesday, September 28.
This post was originally posted on Teen vogue.
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