Justin Bieber has been open when it comes to his struggles with past drug use. In the January 2020 docuseries Justin Bieber: Seasons, the singer revealed that he began smoking marijuana when he was "12 or 13.

Justin Bieber's rep has spoken out amid false drug use rumors. The singer's rep tells TMZ that the speculation is completely untrue, noting that Justin is in a great place working on music, getting ready to celebrate his upcoming birthday, and parenting his son with Hailey Bieber.

Representatives for Bieber and his wife, Hailey Bieber, issued a statement to Rolling Stone aimed at the public’s fascination with the artist’s physical and mental health, calling it “exhausting and pitiful and shows that despite the obvious truth, people are committed to keeping negative, salacious, harmful narratives alive.”