Justin Bieber has opened up about the height of his life-threatening drug addiction. In a very candid interview with <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/justin-bieber-cover-profile-may-2021">GQ Magazine</a>, Bieber, who graced the magazine's May issue, spoke openly about how his security guards would check he was still alive as he slept as his drug habit became increasingly severe. According to the 'Yummy' singer, at night, his team even made a habit of checking his pulse. Bieber explained: "There was a sense of still yearning for more. It was like I had all this success and it was still like: I’m still sad, and I’m still in pain." <img class="size-full wp-image-1263102753" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/04/2EAH6BE-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="1707" height="2560" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: MediaPunch Inc / Alamy Stock Photo]] The 27-year-old chart-topper added: "And I still have these unresolved issues. And I thought all the success was going to make everything good. And so for me, the drugs were a numbing agent to just continue to get through." He also told the magazine: "I was surrounded by a lot of people, and we were all kind of just escaping our real life. I think we just weren’t living in reality... I think it would have probably resulted in just a lot of doing drugs and being posted up, to be honest." <img class="size-full wp-image-1263102754" src="https://img.vt.co/2021/04/2CTJA6P-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1714" />[[imagecaption|| Credit: MediaPunch Inc / Alamy Stock Photo]] The singer explained that his past demons had made the first year of his marriage to Hailey Baldwin extremely challenging, with the singer recalling how the couple have had to overcome a "lack of trust" Bieber married the supermodel, 24, in a secret ceremony in New York in 2018. The pair went on to exchange vows in a formal ceremony in South Carolina in September 2019. [[instagramwidget||https://www.instagram.com/p/CNzI2-tnUhs/]] Last year, Bieber also spoke about his struggles with addiction on his YouTube documentary, the Justin Bieber: Sessions. Per <a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/justin-bieber-opens-up-about-his-previous-addiction-battle-people-dont-know-how-serious-it-got-2604877">NME</a>, he revealed that he first tried marijuana at the age of 13, and later became addicted to stronger substances. He said: "I was, like, dying. People don’t know how serious it got It was legit, crazy scary. "I basically said to myself, ‘God, if you are real, you get me through this season of stopping these pills and stuff, and if you do, I’ll do the rest of the work.’ I never did the actual work. "I got off the pills but never went to the root of everything so I just circled back around which most people do." <h6>Featured image credit: PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo</h6>

Justin Bieber says drug habit became so bad that bodyguards checked his pulse as he slept

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