(NewsNation) — Justin Bieber made his fans concerned on Sunday when he posted a private text conversation on Instagram, saying, “If you don’t like my anger you don’t like me.”
In the post, the 31-year-old singer shared screenshots of a text chain where he ended his friendship with someone who has not been identified.
The screenshots show Bieber telling someone that he will “never suppress my emotions for someone” and “conflict is a part of relationship.” He also said that his anger “is a response to pain I have been through.”
“Asking a traumatized person not to be traumatized is simply mean,” Bieber added.
The unknown person responded to Bieber, saying that they are “not used to someone lashing out” at them and “it’s not that I don’t see and feel your anger.” Bieber replied to that with, “This friendship is officially over.”
Bieber also said he will “never accept a man calling my anger lashing out.”
Bieber didn’t include a caption with the post, and gave no further context. His fans took to the comment section, expressing their concern. Some fans even compared him to Kanye West.
“Bros lowkey becoming ye,” one person said. Another person said, “Your friend is allowed to set boundaries. You lashing out at him because of your trauma is not okay.”
Justin Bieber’s confrontation with paparazzi
This comes after a video went viral of Bieber and the paparazzi arguing on June 12. According to TMZ, Bieber told the photographers to “get out of my face” and “stop provoking me.”
In the clip, Bieber said, “You’ll take this video out of context and you’ll say ‘Justin’s lost his mind.'” On Monday, following Sunday’s post and the paparazzi video, Bieber posted on Instagram, saying, “People keep telling me to heal… don’t you think if I could have fixed myself I would have already?”
He continued with, “I know I’m broken. I know I have anger issues. I tried to do the work my whole life to be like the people who told me I needed to be fixed like them. And it just keeps making me more tired and more angry.”
Justin Bieber cult rumors
Bieber has also recently been accused of participating in a cult. Churchome, the church that he reportedly belongs to, attracts thousands of people online and in person. It has been reported that Bieber takes part in the services at home through Zoom.
According to TMZ, the co-founder of Bieber’s clothing line, Drew House, was also part of Churchome. However, Ryan Good allegedly left and had an argument with Bieber over it because Good said it started feeling like a cult.
One of the surviving members of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, David Thibodeau, spoke with NewsNation about the rumors. He said, “There’s all kinds of times you feel that you’re doing something wrong, but everyone around you is telling you it’s right… Even though you have that feeling and so many people influencing it, it can overcome your own feeling of what’s right and wrong.”
The pastor at Churchome, Judah Smith, said, “We would be the worst cult in the history of all cults” because they only meet once a month.