Hailey Bieber just gave a lengthy interview on Call Her Daddy about the drama between her, her husband, Justin, and Selena Gomez. She addressed whether she and Justin were romantically involved at the same time he was with Selena in 2018, her current relationship with Selena, and the effect Jelena fans had on how she sees herself.
On the podcast, Hailey Bieber managed to carefully cover the topics, maintaining there wasn’t any overlap and speaking earnestly about how she respects Selena, Justin, and their past history. “It’s hard for me to talk about this because I don’t want to talk on either one of their behalf, again, because it was their relationship, and I honestly respect that very deeply,” she said in the interview.
She added, “I just feel like there’s a little bit of that anxiety of people will probably take it the wrong way or I just don’t want to say something that is being disrespectful or bringing up something that can stir up feelings for someone. I know that we’re just all so moved on from any type of drama, and I’m so happy for that so I get nervous about talking about it because I don’t want to like stir anything up or bring anything up that is going to be like a thing.”
Even though she and Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper never mentioned Selena Gomez by name, and rather just as Justin’s ex, the two still revealed a lot.
From a timeline standpoint, Selena and Justin dated on and off for about 10 years, and it was very messy. The last time they were romantically involved ran from late 2017 to spring 2018.
Justin and Hailey Bieber had dated in the past too, and even known each other longer than Jelena have known each other. The couple reconnected in June 2018 at a Miami church conference. In July 2018, Justin proposed to Hailey. By September 2018, they wed in a New York City courthouse and have been happily married ever since.
When asked if there was overlap between her relationship with Justin and Selena’s, which many fans had guessed at, this is what Hailey had to say.
“No, not one time [was I ever with Justin romantically at the same time as Selena]. When him and I started hanging out like, okay, let’s just put it this way: when him and I started hooking up or like, anything of that sort, he was not ever in a relationship ever at any point. I would never – it’s not my character to mess with someone’s relationship. I would just never do that. I was raised better than that. I’m not interested in doing that, and I never was. I think that there are situations where you can still kind of have back and forth with someone but even that was not the situation. Like I can say, period point black, I was never with him when he was in a relationship with anybody. That’s the end of it.
And I had been involved with him since I was 18. The timeline also that sometimes is in question of us getting together then getting engaged and him having been spending time with his ex before that, this is so crazy. I’ve literally never talked about this ever. I understand, again how it looks from the outside. There’s a lot of perception there. But that was a situation where I know for a fact that it was the right thing for them to close that door. They were not in a relationship at that time, but there’s a very long history there, and it’s not my relationship. It has nothing to do with me, so I respect that a lot, but I know that it closed a chapter, and I think it was the best thing that could’ve happened for him to move on and be engaged and get married and move on with his life in that way.
“And it’s hard for me to talk about this because I don’t want to talk on either one of their behalf, again, because it was their relationship, and I honestly respect that very deeply. But I just know what was going on when we got back together, and I know what had to happen for that to come back together in a healthy way. And I think it was the most healthy, mature decision that he could’ve made, and I respect that.
“As a woman, I would never want to get into a relationship with someone and be engaged to them and be getting married to them and think in the back of my mind, I wonder if that was really like, closed for you. And I know for a fact that the reason we were able to get back together was because it was very much completely closed. And that is respectful to me.”
A lot of Selena fans claim that Hailey “stole” Justin from her. Hailey covered this topic in the interview with her natural grace.
“Well, I think one of things that we already just covered is the timeline of things and a lot of the hate and the perpetuation comes from like, ‘oh, you stole him.’ And I maybe that just comes from the face that they wish he had ended up with someone else. And that’s fine. You can wish that all you want but that’s just not the case.”
So many people following along are aware of all of the hate Hailey gets on social media. Hailey addressed commenters harassing her about Selena on social media.
“I think there’s a certain numbness you get when you know it’s going to happen. It still happens to this day. You’re talking about something that was two years ago now, almost three [when a fan called on others to harass Hailey on an Instagram Live], and if I was to go live on Instagram right now it would still be happening. Probably less, which is nice, but you just reach a point where you’re like, you just have to ignore it and be like, okay.
“Well, I know that for him [Justin], it’s hurtful because if we have moved on, why can’t you? That’s kind of like the whole thought process. It’s just hurtful. It’s bullying.
“I have had this conversation with a therapist before. I hate comparison. The whole point of this conversation is we’re talking about how my relationship is being compared to something else or I’m being compared to another woman.”
Hailey Bieber sent a message to Jelena fans:
“You’re not obligated to like me, but I believe that no matter what, there can always be mutual respect between people. And to me, that means just that you don’t have to say anything. You don’t have to like me, but you don’t have to say anything either because behind this person that you’re looking at on a screen is a person with a brain and a heart and emotions and issues that I face and so do you and so does Alex and so does every single person in this room. [Treat them] with mutual respect and decency and know that what you say can have impact.”
She clarified that they’ve pretty much all moved on from all of the drama. And, she and Selena have spoken one-on-one since marrying Justin
“I know that we’re all so moved on from any type of drama and I’m so happy for that so I get nervous about talking about it because I don’t want to like stir anything up or bring anything up that is going to be like a thing.”
She continued, “Yes, [we have spoken]. Yes [we have spoken after my marriage]. So that’s why I’m like, it’s all respect, it’s all love. It’s also why I feel like if everybody on our side knows what happened, and we’re good and we could walk away with clarity and respect, then that’s fine.”
Hailey Bieber is an icon. Not just for her style, but how mature she’s been through all of this immature drama. While Selena has given 45 interviews on the matter, this is Hailey’s first and only. Well done, Hailey Bieber.
