Is it too late now to say sorry?
In an Instagram post on May 20, Justin Bieber apologized to wife Hailey Bieber for once telling her that “she would never be on the cover of Vogue” during a “huge” fight. The “Sorry” singer, 31, shared the apology while celebrating the fact that she is now on the magazine’s cover.
“Yikes I know, so mean,” Bieber wrote. “For some reason because I felt disrespected. I thought I gotta get even. I think as we mature we realize that we’re not helping anything by getting even. We’re honestly just prolonging what we really want which is intimacy and connection.”
He concluded by asking his wife for forgiveness, writing, “So baby u already know but forgive me for saying u wouldn’t get a Vogue cover cuz clearly I was sadly mistaken.”
The Grammy winner later edited the caption to remove all of his remarks about Hailey and replace them with a simple series of emojis: “🤷🫵🏻🫶🏼🥹.”
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Justin Bieber caption sparks social media outrage
Bieber’s post was flooded with comments criticizing his original message, with one follower writing, “I know your intentions in posting this were good, but the caption was disrespectful and nasty. This is a very happy moment for Hailey, let’s not take that away from her!”
Another comment argued that Bieber’s apology was ironic “because posting this caption instead of congratulating her” is “wild” and “mean,” while others mocked the singer for “airing dirty laundry.”
“Please shoot me dead if I ever got a VOGUE cover and my husband made this his caption about me. is justin bieber ok?” one X user wrote, while another viral post read, “when I’m in a who hates hailey bieber the most competition and my opponent is justin bieber.”
But some fans defended Bieber and applauded his honesty, with one commenting on Instagram, “People think relationships are perfect and that there are no arguments, he was honest and everything is fine. Be happy, and let JB be happy. Who has never had a bad fight with their partner?”
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In Hailey Bieber’s interview with Vogue, the model shared that it was difficult for her to deal with rumors that she is “getting divorced” and that she and her husband are “not happy” during the “sensitive time” after she welcomed her first child in 2024.
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“I’ve learned so much from Justin, really,” she told the magazine. “He’s been doing this literally since he was a child and he has had to face the most scrutiny of any person that I know. He was like, ‘Baby, trust me, I’ve been here before many, many times. You’re not going to win. There is no winning.'”
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Hailey Bieber also appeared in a video for Vogue discussing the items in her bag and seemed to mock claims that she is “stalking” her husband’s ex-girlfriend, Selena Gomez. At one point in the video, she pulled several phones out of her bag and sarcastically declared she uses them for “stalking, viewing girls’ pages, making multiple accounts — you know, that kind of thing.” She also jokingly pulled out a “potion” and quipped that a witch made it for her and “told me that it would make a young Canadian pop star fall in love with me.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Justin Bieber apologizes over Hailey Bieber Vogue cover comments
