Justin Bieber talks past drug use: 'It can be a dependency'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Justin Bieber is opening up about his past.
The 25-year-old singer is the subject of a new YouTube docuseries titled "Justin Bieber: Seasons," which focuses on his life, career, music and wife Hailey.
In the series, Bieber addresses past drug use, including his first time smoking marijuana.
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“The first time I smoked weed was in my backyard here — got super-stoned,” Bieber said via voice-over. “And then I realized I liked weed a lot. That’s when my desire to smoke weed started, and then I started smoking weed for a while."
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin. (Getty Images)
While smoking started as a recreational pastime for the singer, it eventually became much more complicated.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"And then started getting really dependent on it, and that’s when I realized that I had to stop," he said in the series. "I don’t think it’s bad. It’s just that for me, it can be a dependency.”
Marijuana wasn't the only drug that Bieber was consuming, however.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The singer admitted to using MDMA, mushrooms and cough syrup to get high.
The singer's wife said she saw her husband's drug use as self-medication to cope with anxiety.
Justin Bieber struggled with drug abuse before taking steps to fight his addiction. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)
Bieber also confessed that he reached a point where he felt that he was "dying," and his security team would check on him nightly to check his pulse.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Eventually, Bieber stopped abusing drugs and started taking antidepressants, which he said helped him “get out of bed in the morning.”
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In the series -- the first six episodes of which are available now for YouTube Premium subscribers -- Bieber also discusses his battles with Lyme disease and mononucleosis, as well as his recovery process.