The second wedding’s off!
Justin and Hailey’s marriage in crisis
Newlyweds Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin look the picture of loved-up bliss in the latest American Vogue, hugging, kissing and revealing the truth about their whirlwind romance and sex life in a blistering tell-all.
But the showbiz A-listers presented a very different image last week when they were seen leaving a Hillsong Church service in New York looking down in the dumps.
Now Woman’sDay has learned there’s a good reason why the couple – who secretly married in a New York court house last September after a heady 12-week romance – seem upset.
“Justin is struggling with depression and is undergoing intensive therapy,” reveals a source close to the superstar. “Hailey’s been begging him to get help for weeks but it wasn’t until a few days ago that Justin realised she was right – he needed to seek treatment before he hit rock bottom and had a full-blown nervous breakdown.”
The “Love Yourself” singer, who shot to international stardom as a 13-year-old, has wrestled with mental health issues for years, battling drug use, anxiety and depression.
“He struggles a lot with the idea of fame,” tells another insider. “Being followed, having his every move stalked by fans, cameras in his face. It all sets him off and he often feels like everyone is out to get him.”
Since their romance began, Hailey, 22, has become Justin’s main source of stability and our insider says the emotional load can be a strain on the couple’s fledgling relationship. “They do love each other deeply but there are a lot of deep-rooted issues that weren’t addressed during their rush to get married.”
Justin, 24, revealed in Vogue – his first in-depth interview in two years – that becoming famous so young meant, “I didn’t really have a chance to find who I was,” and it didn’t take long for him to think, “‘People love me, I’m the s***.’ That’s honestly what I thought. I got very arrogant and cocky. I was wearing sunglasses inside.”
The singer – whose catalogue of bad behaviour includes egging a neighbour’s house, urinating into a mop bucket and being charged with drink driving after drag-racing his Lamborghini – confessed, “It’s been so hard for me to trust people. I’ve struggled with the feeling that people are using me… It’s been difficult for me even to trust Hailey.”
The pair met as kids when Hailey’s actor dad Stephen Baldwin and Justin’s mum Pattie Mallette – both bornagain Christians – struck up a friendship through church.
Justin and Hailey dated as teenagers until a rumoured betrayal. Hailey says, “Fizzled would not be the right word – it was more like a very dramatic excommunication. There was a period where if I walked into a room, he would walk out.”
But last June, they bumped into each other at a Hillsong Church conference in Miami and gave each other a hug. Explains Hailey, “By the end of the conference, he was like, ‘We’re not going to be friends.’ I was like, ‘We’re not?’” Within a month, he proposed.
Unlike her husband, Hailey has never taken drugs for fear she might fall prey to the same demons as her dad, who’s been in recovery from cocaine addiction for 30 years. Friends say that while the “Baby” singer is “sensitive and emotional”, model Hailey is “secure, steady and strong”.
“I’m the emotionally unstable one,” admits Justin. “I struggle with finding peace … with the lifestyle I live, everything is so uncertain. I need one thing that’s certain and that is my baby boo.”
Justin reveals in Vogue that when he reconnected with Hailey, he was more than a year into self-imposed celibacy and one reason the couple married so swiftly was their desire to have sex – their church discourages it outside of marriage.
The pair have been planning a second, religious,
ceremony on February 28, but last week they postponed it to focus on Justin’s mental health.
Our source reveals, “While they adore each other, their relationship is incredibly volatile. They have already secretly split twice since getting married – both times because of Justin’s jealousy.
“Hailey has a lot of male friends and Justin has gone to great lengths to push them out, which has been a massive bone of contention. He can be extremely emotional and Hailey can be fiery, so when they disagree over even a small thing, it escalates very quickly. One of them will end up walking out and refusing to speak to the other for days at a time.
“Their loved ones are relieved they’ve postponed the wedding and are hoping they will also seek couple’s counselling, but they’re both adamant that God will guide them and that once they’re married, they will be far more settled and secure in their relationship.”