Wayward pop star Justin Bieber continues to prove that he is undeserving of the adoration his legion of “Beliebers” impart upon him.
E! News is reporting that during a break between songs at the Atlantic City stop of his Purpose World Tour Friday evening, the 22-year-old was addressing the audience when one of the many concert goers tossed a gift — a hat — on to the stage for the singer to obtain. Unfortunately, the kind act immediately rubbed the “Company” singer the wrong way, because it caused him to momentarily lose his train of thought.
“Take this moment to listen,” Bieber expressed, “and try not to give me a hat or whatever you’re trying to throw onto the stage right now, because I probably don’t want that s**t.”
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After being met by loud approval from the majority of the audience, Justin then gave a half-apology for his response (“Sorry, that was mean”), before tossing the gift back into the crowd.
“Sorry for throwing your hat [back],” he said to the fan, before going into the next song, “but you ruined the moment.”
The “moment,” which has been shared all over social media today, is the latest of several antics in 2016 that have many wondering if the young star is, according to AOL , headed toward a complete mental breakdown . It all began in March of this year when Bieber, who was once notorious for showering ample amounts of affection to his many “Beliebers,” abruptly cancelled all meet-and-greets on the Purpose World Tour, which allegedly cost fans upwards to $2,000 to be a part of.
“I enjoy meeting such incredible people,” he stated on an Instagram post, “but I end up feeling so drained [because] of other people’s spiritual energy. [I] want to make people smile, but not at [the] expense [of leaving me] exhausted to the point of depression.”
Even worse, rather than immediately offering refunds, he chose to set up a cardboard cutoutof himself for those who were attending his Las Vegas show to stand next to (an article on the Inquisitrexplained that those who had purchased the perk eventually got their money backin April).
Justin then followed that up with a “no pictures with fans” edict after he was filmed feeding squirrels, barefoot, in a Boston park by one of his followers.
“It has gotten to the point [where] people won’t even say ‘hi’ to me, or recognize me as a person,” he partially noted on another Instagram post in May. “I realize people will be disappointed, but I don’t owe anybody a picture — and [to the] people who say, ‘but, I bought your album,’ know that you got [exactly] what you paid for: an album!”
Later that month, when a young Argentinian fan attempted to gift Justin with a flag from her home country as he was being driven away from an interview in New York City, he coldly threw it back at her. Others at the scene claimed that the 15-year-old girl nearly hit the singer in the face with her offering, hence his reaction, but NME , by way of the fan’s Facebook page, claimed that she immediately and profusely apologized to him.
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“Of course it was not my intention for it to fall [so] close to his face,” she said, “so I apologized a thousand times. He looked at me, grabbed the flag, threw it on the pavement and shut the window.”
Bieber has yet to comment publicly on the events that took place Friday evening. His next stop on the Purpose World Tour will see him hitting New York City’s famed Madison Square Garden for a two-day residency on July 18 and 19. His final date takes place on November 29 at London’s O2 Arena.
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