Justin Bieber got candid about healing in his latest in a string of Instagram posts.
“People keep telling me to heal,” Justin, 31, wrote in a cryptic message shared via the social media platform on Monday, June 16. “Don’t you think if I could have fixed myself, I would have already? I know I’m broken. I know I have anger issues.”
The “Baby” singer continued, “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 added that the harder he tries “to grow,” the “more focused on myself I am.”
“Jesus is the only person who keeps me wanting to make my life about others,” he concluded. “Because honestly, I’m exhausted with talking about myself lately, aren’t you?”
Justin also shared the post via his Instagram Stories.
Hours prior to sharing the message, Justin took to his Stories to tell fans, “Quit asking me if I’m OK. Quit asking me how I’m doing. I don’t do that to you. Because I know how life is for all of us. It’s hard.”
He continued, “Let’s encourage our people not [to] project our insecurities onto one another. Your concern doesn’t come off as care, it’s just oppressive, weirdo.”
Along with the message, Justin reposted a set of screenshots depicting a text exchange with an unnamed person. In one text, the musician seemingly told the other person that he would “never suppress my emotions for someone,” and if the person didn’t like “my anger, you don’t like me.”
“Asking a traumatized person not to be traumatized is simply mean,” he added, later telling the person, “I enjoyed our short-lived relationship.”
The alleged former friend responded to Justin, “I’m not used to someone lashing out at me. It’s not that I don’t see and feel your anger.”
Justin fired back, “This friendship is officially over. I will never accept a man calling my anger lashing out. … I wasn’t kidding when I told u [sic] I didn’t need u [sic] as a friend. I have good friends … who will respect these boundaries.”
Us Weekly reached out to a rep for Justin for comment regarding the texts.
The post, as well as several others that Justin shared on Sunday, June 15, prompted a wave of concern from fans.
“Someone please intervene and get this dude some help before it’s too late,” one fan commented, while another user added, “You cannot have justifiable angry outbursts due to trauma, it doesn’t work that way.”
Among the other posts that Justin shared were photos of the gifts he received for Father’s Day, photos of his son, Jack Blues, whom he shares with wife Hailey Bieber, and selfies, many of which were captioned with a middle finger emoji.
On one of his posts, Justin wrote, “I’m a dad that’s not to be f***ed with.”
Earlier this month, Justin responded to a May 21 meme featuring a screenshot of text messages from someone’s grandfather. The messages read, “I am worried about Justin Bieber. There is so much heartbreak in Justin’s life.”
Justin commented, “Worry about yourself gramps.”
