'I thought he was going to die,' the singer's longtime manager says, adding that he 'thought he was going to go to sleep one night' and then do 'not wake up the next morning.'
- Sep 13, 2018
AceShowbiz - Justin Bieber used to live a hard life and his manager Scooter Braun is here to get candid about the "Sorry" hitmaker's gloomy days. Appearing on Van Lathan's The Red Pill podcast, Scooter talked about how he used to live in fear of losing the Canadian heartthrob in his sleep due to substance abuse.
"There was a time where I would go to sleep almost every night, when he had money to fly away from me, and I was worried every night that I was gonna lose him," Scooter said of the moments when Justin's life hit a scary low point. "There was the time where I was telling him he's not allowed to work. He used to yell and scream at me."
Scooter continued saying in the tell-all interview that the 24-year-old pop star, who is now engaged to model Hailey Baldwin, just "wanted to put music out" and "wanted to tour, but I thought if he did that, he would die. I just refused."
"I didn't want him to work because I wanted him to get healthy. I thought he was going to die…thought he was going to go to sleep one night and have so much crap in his system that he would not wake up the next morning," he added. "I'd try to monitor him from a distance and would fly after him at times."
It seems like Scooter was talking about Justin back in 2014. The "Despacito" hitmaker was involved in several negative incidents. Among them was his arrest over a DUI drag racing a Lamborghini. Just days after the scandal, the then 19-year-old Justin was accused of throwing eggs at a neighbor's house, causing $20,000 in damage.
The manager, who has been credited for turning Justin's life for the better, revealed that he had tried to help Justin for a year in many different ways including making him attend AA meeting. But his attempts were all to no avail, until the singer himself decided that his life needed a change.
