He credits his Christian faith for helping him heal and emphasises forgiveness without excusing past injustices. Photo / Getty Images
He added: “I’m not speaking as a victim still bleeding – I’m speaking as someone restored. Because I’m healed, I can forgive. Not to pretend injustice didn’t happen, but so it doesn’t keep living through me.”
Bieber said he wants to see real changes in the music industry. “I don’t want revenge. I want redemption. I don’t want to destroy the industry. I want it transformed.
“What happened to me was real but it doesn’t get the final word. Jesus didn’t help me cope, he restored my identity. I’m not a product. I’m not what the industry demanded. I’m a son.
“Because I’m healed, I can forgive – not to excuse injustice, but to make sure it doesn’t keep reproducing itself through me.
“I don’t want to burn the music industry down. I want to see it made new – safer, more honest, more human.”
Bieber returned to music this year releasing his albums Swag and Swag II but he has since admitted he’s reluctant to tour again because he doesn’t want to spend too much time away from his wife Hailey and their young son Jack.
In the singer’s Halloween Twitch livestream on October 31, the two-time Grammy Award winner said: “Touring takes so much out of you, and I’ve done it since I was a kid.
“Even the idea of touring sounds super daunting. I always start out really loving it and then it gets to a point where I am super burnt out.”
However, the Beauty and the Beat singer wants to choose a location where he can perform for two nights.
The star, who is headlining the music and arts festival Coachella in 2026, said: “I really wanna do spot-date where I pick a city and do a couple of shows and not commit to a whole two years.”