Justin Bieber is on the May 2021 cover of GQ Magazine, and he’s opening up about his marriage, past mental health struggles, music, and religion.

 

 

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Justin shares, “The first year of marriage was really tough because there was a lot, going back to the trauma stuff.  There was just lack of trust. There was all these things that you don’t want to admit to the person that you’re with, because it’s scary. You don’t want to scare them off by saying, ‘I’m scared.'”  Although Justin felt like he was walking on eggshells during his first year as a husband, he describes Hailey as a “strong, consistent, stabilizing force in his life.”

 

 

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However, Hailey referred to the first year of marriage as ‘very difficult,’ “In the beginning of our marriage, I just wanted to hide. I was like, ‘I don’t want people so in my business. I feel like everybody’s up my a–.’ I was like, ‘Can there be no anonymity? Can I have any of it back?’ I remember someone telling me that [turning off the public comments] really lowers your engagement. And I was like, ‘I could give a f— about engagement! People are terrorizing me. Engagement, enschagement. I don’t care!'” Hailey told Elle in her April 2021 cover.

 


 

Don’t worry, things have definitely changed for the young couple, “We’re just creating these moments for us as a couple, as a family, that we’re building these memories. And it’s beautiful that we have that to look forward to. Before, I didn’t have that to look forward to in my life. My home life was unstable. Like, my home life was not existing. I didn’t have a significant other. I didn’t have someone to love. I didn’t have someone to pour into. But now I have that,” Justin explains.

 

 

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Justin and Hailey first said ‘I Do’ privately in a New York courthouse in 2018.  A year later, said ‘I Do’ again in South Carolina, and celebrated with their family and friends.  Justin tells GQ that ‘having babies was my calling,’ but also revealed the ‘couple will be holding off on the latter for a little while longer.’

 


 

In a 2019 interview with Vogue, Hailey shared, “It’s always going to be hard. It’s a choice. You don’t feel it every single day. You don’t wake up every day saying, ‘I’m absolutely so in love and you are perfect.’ That’s not what being married is.  But there’s something beautiful about it anyway—about wanting to fight for something, commit to building with someone. We’re really young, and that’s a scary aspect. We’re going to change a lot. But we’re committed to growing together and supporting each other in those changes. That’s how I look at it. At the end of the day, too, he’s my best friend. I never get sick of him.”

 

 

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In March of 2019, Justin made the decision to step away from the spotlight to focus on his mental health.  Back in June 2020, Justin revealed he was suffering from Lyme disease, “To be honest, I am a lot healthier, and I did have a lot of things going on. I did have mono, and I do have Lyme disease, but I was also navigating a lot of emotional terrain, which had a lot to do with it. And we like to blame a lot of things on other things. Sometimes… It’s a lot of times just your own stuff,” he tells GQ.

 

 

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Opening up about his religion, Justin tells GQ he’s in a better place all thanks to his faith, “God is grace.  Every time we mess up, He’s picking us back up every single time. That’s how I view it. And so it’s like, ‘I made a mistake. I won’t dwell in it. I don’t sit in shame. But it actually makes me want to do better.’?”

 

 

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For Justin’s full GQ interview, click here.

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