Justin Bieber’s Team Vehemently Denies Singer Is in ‘Distress’

Justin Bieber’s team is sending a strong message to anyone claiming the pop star is facing serious money woes.

“Any source that is trying to sell you a story about alleged financial distress … either doesn’t understand the entertainment industry or, more likely, is trying to paint an unflattering portrait of Justin, which bears no resemblance to reality,” Bieber’s team told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement on Wednesday, April 16.

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The context of Bieber’s alleged finance problems come from the majority cancellation of his 2022 Justice World Tour, which he had already postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After publicly battling Ramsay Hunt syndrome — “where my face was partly paralyzed,” Bieber said in a September 2022 statement — he was “not able to complete the North America leg of the Justice Tour.” He had already played a series of dates at the time, but ultimately canceled the rest of the year-long tour, which would have taken him to nearly every continent.

“After getting off the stage [in Brazil], the exhaustion overtook me and I realized that I need to make my health the priority right now,” the Grammy winner explained at the time. “So I’m going to take a break from touring for the time being. I’m going to be OK, but I need time to rest and get better.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, it was the cancellation of the rest of the tour that allegedly put Bieber in financial straits. After receiving a $40 million advance for the tour dates, “he was left owing a large debt to [tour promoter] AEG” — a sum around $20 million, a source told the outlet. THR reported that the “Sorry” singer paid back a “portion” of the alleged debt.

Bieber’s team, however, continued to adamantly deny such claims.

“This is just clickbait stupidity based on unnamed — and clearly ill-informed — ‘sources,’ disappointed that they no longer work with Justin,” Bieber’s team told Us Weekly in a statement. “As Justin forges his own way forward, these unnecessary stories and inaccurate assumptions will continue. But they won’t deter him from staying committed to following the right path.”

The “Baby” artist has had fans worried lately, with divorce rumors flying (Justin and wife Hailey Bieber, who have been married since 2018, welcomed son Jack Blues last year) and gossip about Justin’s alleged drug use, which his rep vehemently denied earlier this year.

The gossip, his rep told TMZ in a statement at the time, is “exhausting and pitiful and shows that despite the obvious truth, people are committed to keeping negative, salacious, harmful narratives alive.”

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