{"id":67998,"date":"2015-12-27T19:43:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67998"},"modified":"2015-12-27T19:43:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T00:43:11","slug":"if-he-toured-he-could-die-manager-on-justin-biebers-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/27\/if-he-toured-he-could-die-manager-on-justin-biebers-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"“If he toured, he could die”: manager on Justin Bieber’s breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Canadian<\/a>
Canadian pop sensation, Justin Bieber.
(Photo from the official Twitter page of Billboard<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Justin Bieber’s high profile manager says he once feared for the Canadian pop sensation’s life.<\/p>\n

Scooter Braun told The New York Times in an interview last week that Bieber wanted to go on tour in the midst of a series of incidents in the last couple of years that tarnished his public image.<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly at that time felt, if he toured, he could die,\u201d Braun told the Times.<\/p>\n

Bieber had a number of run-ins with the law in both Canada and the U.S. that included pleading guilty to misdemeanour careless driving, to egg-tossing vandalism and clashing with a paparazzo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was far worse than people realize. And when he is ready, he will tell what he was going through,\u201d Braun told the Times.<\/p>\n

Bieber has done a number of interviews recently where he acknowledged his troubles including telling Billboard he was \u201cclose to letting fame destroy\u201d him.<\/p>\n

The Times credited Braun for 21-year-old Bieber’s recent comeback this year, which the manager said started with a roast on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n

Bieber also surprised his fans earlier this month with a benefit concert in Toronto to raise funds for an outreach centre in his hometown of Stratford, Ont., and his new album \u201cPurpose\u201d has been storming the charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justin Bieber’s high profile manager says he once feared for the Canadian pop sensation’s life. Scooter Braun told The New …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-67998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}