Hailey Bieber is getting real about the challenges she’s faced throughout the course of her young marriage to Justin Bieber — and how it’s all impacted her.
On the Victoria’s Secret Voices podcast, Hailey spoke about Justin’s sobriety journey, and touched on her father’s own struggle with addiction. She shared:
“There’s a lot of addiction that runs in my family, not even just my dad [actor Stephen Baldwin], but a lot of other people on that side of my family struggle with a lot of different things.
My dad was always really open about [his addiction] and I always appreciated that. I was always really, really close to my dad. … He was just always, like, extremely open about why being sober was what worked for him and why we needed to be sober and what alcoholic behavior looks like, and where that comes out.”
The model also shared how having had to go back to those “dark spaces” as she helped her husband through his sobriety journey was difficult for her:
“Looking back on times of drug use and being in some dark spaces and having to kind of go back there was extremely difficult.
Being like, ‘Hey, where are you at with this?’ I’ve had times where I would get nervous, [asking Justin], ‘Are you OK to do this? Because you did have a time in your life where it was not OK for you and it was a dark time for you,.’”
Hailey went on to say how much she valued and appreciated Justin’s openness and self-awareness:
But he has very good self-awareness when it comes to that and is very open about it and that’s all I can really ask for.”
Back in 2020, Justin opened up about how he fought addiction with faith. In his docuseries Justin Bieber: Seasons, he revealed:
“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.’ I did that and then I was good from there, but I never did the actual work. I got off the pills, but I never went to the root of everything. So then I just kind of circle back around, which most people do.
I’ve abused my body in the past and now I’m just in the recovery process trying to make sure I’m taking care of my body and taking care of the vessel that God’s given me…there’s so many people that have gifts, and an opportunity to make a change, and they end up either losing it or using their gifts for selfish reasons.”
