Justin Bieber’s Friends Concerned ‘He’s Spiraling Again’

Justin Bieber has made his friends and fans concerned that he's "spiraling" once again after his recent appearance at Coachella. The "Peaches" singer, 30, performed with Tems during her set nearly two weeks ago on Sunday, April 14th.

While performing "Essence" with Tems, Bieber wore a simple oversized black sweatshirt, baggy khaki pants, and a green and black baseball cap. This was a rare performance by the Biebs since he canceled his Justice World Tour last year. And in February, he turned down performing with mentor and collaborator Usher for the Super Bowl Halftime show.

“He’s still fragile and seemed checked-out all weekend,” a witness told InTouch Weekly of the singer, who has only performed sporadically since being diagnosed with a virus called Ramsay Hunt Syndrome, which left half of his face paralyzed. “It’s a good sign he felt comfortable enough to get ​on stage, and a lot of fans are hoping this means he’ll be making his music comeback soon.”

One fan page noted on X (formerly Twitter) after his Coachella performance that he was seen in the studio with Wiz Kid, whom he previously collaborated with on the remix of "Essence" with Tems.

The source noted to the publication that though Bieber has "finally" got his health back up, his friends "are worried that he’s spiraling again" because he has "severe ups and downs."

In 2020, the "Sorry" singer opened up about how his substance abuse was so bad in the fifth installment of his 10-part YouTube docuseries, Justin Bieber: Seasons. The Canadian singer was addicted to cannabis and codeine-based drugs, MDMA, and mushrooms. Soon after realizing how bad his dependency on substances was getting, Bieber got clean and has apparently stayed sober since.

Ahead of the docuseries’ debut, Bieber posted an update on Instagram (which has since been deleted), writing: “While a lot of people kept saying Justin Bieber looks like s—, on meth etc. they failed to realize I’ve been recently diagnosed with Lyme disease, not only that but had a serious case of chronic mono which affected my, skin, brain function, energy, and overall health.”

4/20 is upon us. To celebrate the fun, cannabis-loving holiday, we listed five pop stars who smoke weed.

The origins of the date and the term “420” started with a group of hippie teens from San Rafael High School in California, who called themselves “the Waldos.” A friend’s brother was afraid of getting arrested for a patch of cannabis he was growing in the woods at Point Reyes, so he drew a map and gave the Waldos permission to harvest the crop.

During the fall of 1971, at 4:20 p.m., just after classes and football practice, the group would meet up at the school’s statue of chemist Louis Pasteur, smoke a joint, and head out to search for the weed patch. They never found it, but their private lexicon — “420 Louie” and later just “420″ — would take on a life of its own.

The Waldos saved postmarked letters and other artifacts from the 1970s referencing “420,” which they later kept in a bank vault, and when the Oxford English Dictionary added the term in 2017, it cited some of those documents as the entry’s earliest recorded uses.

A brother of one of the Waldos was a close friend of Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. The Waldos began hanging out in the band’s circle, and the slang spread. By the '90s, 4/20 became a phenomenon. One of the Waldos, Steve Capper, reflected, “Most things die within a couple of years, but this just goes on and on. It’s not like someday somebody’s going to say, ‘OK, Cannabis New Year’s is on June 23rd now.'”

With the legalization of marijuana passing in more states, many dispensaries offer discounts to celebrate 4/20. 24 states, two territories, and the District of Columbia have legalized small amounts of cannabis for adult recreational use.

Most recently, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and Rhode Island passed legislation allowing individuals 21 or older to possess certain amounts of cannabis. With the exception of Delaware, these new laws permit individuals to home-grow marijuana—however, the number of plants one can legally cultivate varies by state. In all six of these jurisdictions, medical use cannabis was legalized prior to adult recreational use.