{"id":12596,"date":"2024-10-15T08:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=12596"},"modified":"2024-10-15T08:08:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:08:36","slug":"how-justin-biebers-young-mother-unknowingly-sent-him-into-the-clutches-of-diddy-after-she-battled-drug-issues-and-was-sexually-abused-so-many-times-if-felt-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.drinkfood.info\/?p=12596","title":{"rendered":"How Justin Bieber’s young mother unknowingly sent him into the clutches of Diddy – after she battled drug issues and was sexually abused so many times if ‘felt normal’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When\u00a0Justin Bieber<\/span>\u00a0signed his first record deal with\u00a0Usher<\/span>‘s label in 2008, his mother Pattie Mallette had no doubts he would be a star.<\/p>\n

Pattie, 49, was fundamental to her son’s early success – accompanying him on his first trip to Atlanta to meet music entrepreneur Scooter Braun, and uploading videos of Justin singing cover versions of famous songs to\u00a0YouTube<\/span>, where his talent was first discovered.<\/p>\n

It was Pattie – who gave birth to her son at a home for teenager mothers a month before her 19th birthday – who was in charge of signing Justin’s legal documents as his career took off, and she admitted the task was ‘daunting’.<\/p>\n

Being suddenly thrust into the machinations of big record companies and talent agents would be a bewildering task for anyone, but it’s fair to say that Pattie was vulnerable after overcoming a very difficult past.<\/p>\n

Abused as a child from the age of 5 by a male babysitter and a friend’s grandfather, she’s recalled how she becamse so accustomed to being violated ‘that it began to feel normal’.<\/p>\n

After abusing drugs and\u00a0alcohol<\/span>\u00a0in her teenage years to mask the pain, she raised Justin in social housing and worked two or three jobs at a time to support them.<\/p>\n

So, after years of struggle, it was no wonder that Justin’s sudden rise to fame felt like the reward they had been waiting for.<\/p>\n

Sadly, that naivety had a part to play in Justin’s path to a whirlwind life of fame, leaving him potentially vulnerable to some of the industry’s most dangerous and predatory stars.<\/p>\n

Just a year after being signed to Island Records, a 15-year-old Bieber spent a now-infamous 48-hour period with\u00a0Diddy<\/span>\u00a0seemingly unsupervised at the rapper’s home, where they went ‘full buck crazy’.<\/p>\n

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Justin Bieber’s mother Pattie Mallette was crucial to her son’s early career success (pictured in 2013)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But unknowingly, her wish for her son to succeed meant she signed him away to a vulnerable life of fame, eventually meeting rapper Diddy (pictured with Bieber in 2010)<\/p>\n

Sean Diddy Combs has now been charged with a host of sex trafficking and racketeering offenses with upwards of 120 alleged victims already coming forward, with the rapper’s relationships with Usher and Bieber\u00a0coming under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the allegations<\/span>. Combs denies the claims.<\/p>\n

Bieber himself, a new father to Jack Blues with wife Hailey, is said to feel ‘disgusted’ by the allegations against Diddy<\/span>\u00a0and wants ‘nothing to do with’ him.<\/p>\n

Questions have been raised about how such a doting mother could leave her only son in such a vulnerable position and allow Diddy to become a ‘mentor-like’ figure to him.<\/p>\n

Sources close to Justin exclusively told the Daily Mail that he ‘should never have been\u00a0allowed to party with Diddy or anyone else<\/span>\u00a0when he was a teen.’<\/p>\n

They claim he was ‘thrown to the wolves’ by his mother and largely absent father Jeremy Bieber, with whom she split a few months after Justin’s birth.<\/p>\n

There is no evidence to suggest Bieber’s parents, Usher, or Reid\u00a0knew about Diddy’s alleged criminal activity at the time<\/span>.<\/p>\n

But Pattie herself was still young – and had her only son at 18 years old, just a month before she turned 19.<\/p>\n

Born on April 2, 1975, Mallette grew up in Stratford, Ontario, the daughter of Michael and Diane.<\/p>\n

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Pattie, now 49, mainly raised Justin as a single mother, having broken up with his father shortly after his birth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Though Justin once claimed he wasn’t ‘close’ to his mother in an interview, they spent Christmas together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She also appears close to Justin’s wife Hailey, with whom he recently welcomed son Jack Blues (Pattie and Hailey pictured)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

But even before she was born, tragedy had struck the family – her sister Sally had died after being hit by a car when she was five years old, while their mother was pregnant with Pattie.<\/p>\n

After her violent alcoholic father left when she was two years old, Pattie endured years of sexual abuse, with those responsible including a friend’s grandfather and a male babysitter.<\/p>\n

In her memoir Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom, published in 2012, she claimed she was first molested at the age of three, continuing until she was 14.<\/p>\n

In the book she wrote: ‘I was sexually violated so many times that as the years went by it began to feel normal.<\/p>\n

‘It’s a strange marriage \u2013 knowing something is wrong yet at the same time finding it familiar and commonplace.’<\/p>\n

As a teenager, she turned to drugs and alcohol as a balm for the pain she’d experienced, and supported herself by selling weed and cigarettes.<\/p>\n

‘I started drinking alcohol and smoking pot when I was fourteen. There were more parties than I knew what to do with, and every one of them featured some type of mind-numbing substance,’ she wrote in her memoir.<\/p>\n

‘Getting drunk and high for fun turned into a means of self-medicating. I couldn\u2019t get through a class at school or a holiday function with my family without being stoned or drunk. By the time I was sixteen, I couldn\u2019t function at all without numbing myself in some way.’<\/p>\n

Aged 15, she was raped by a boy her age she met at a party, shortly before getting together with Justin’s father Jeremy – a four-year on and off relationship she admits was ‘doomed from the start’.<\/p>\n

By the age of 16 he was already attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, but found it hard to stick to the 12-step program and would fly into a rage when drunk and accuse her of cheating.<\/p>\n

‘The majority of our on-again, off-again four-year relationship would be unhealthy, suffocated by mind games and distorted by insecurities,’ she recalled.<\/p>\n

Aged 16, Pattie’s relationship with her mother had deteriorated badly and she moved out of home to live with three male friends – and spent her time mostly drunk or sleeping, and rarely going to school.<\/p>\n

‘I worked odd jobs to get money for rent and to fuel my drug habit,’ Pattie recalled.<\/p>\n

Eventually, to create the ‘kind of cash flow I needed to keep up my partying’, Pattie started stealing cigarettes to sell, and then progressed to dealing pot.<\/p>\n

‘It was quick and easy, and because I looked so young and clean-cut, I was the most unsuspecting drug dealer you could find,’ she said. ‘It\u2019s a miracle I never got caught. I could have gone to jail.’<\/p>\n

She also recalled struggling with bouts of anxiety and depression, writing of the ‘unmanageable weight of panic’ she felt at times.<\/p>\n

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Pattie released a memoir Nowhere But Up: The Story of Justin Bieber’s Mom, published in 2012, which provides crucial insights into his rise to fame<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pattie recently posted on Instagram to celebrate Justin’s 30th birthday, showing the pop star presented with a large cake<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Aged 17, she tried to take her own life by stepping in front of an oncoming truck after yet another row with Jeremy, who threatened to expose her darkest secrets.<\/p>\n

‘In that moment all I could hear was a threat that cut to the deepest part of my core.\u00a0 All I felt was darkness. Pure, utter darkness,’ she said.<\/p>\n

Luckily, the driver swerved and her life was spared – though she was admitted to the psych ward in Stratford General Hospital, where she found her faith in God for the first time.<\/p>\n

After leaving hospital, she did her best to distance herself from her old partying lifestyle, but there was a shock in store.<\/p>\n

At a routine gynaecologist appointment, Pattie discoverd she was pregnant with Jeremy’s baby.<\/p>\n

Her mother told her she was done raising children, and Pattie had to leave home.<\/p>\n

On March 1, 1994, just one month before she turned 19, Mallette gave birth to Justin, her only son, while living in a home for teen mothers, the\u00a0Salvation Army\u2019s Bethesda Centre in London, Ontario<\/p>\n

On the day his son was born, Jeremy was in the county jail for getting into a fight – and remained there for the first 11 days of Justin’s life.<\/p>\n

As a young boy, Justin grew up living in close proximity with his mother, living in small apartments together.<\/p>\n

‘I was on mother\u2019s allowance, the Canadian equivalent of welfare, until I could support Justin and myself full-time. I didn\u2019t make much more than nine or ten thousand dollars a year, which included part-time jobs and social assistance.<\/p>\n

‘Justin and I didn\u2019t have much. It was a struggle to buy diapers and formula, but I managed to make it work. As poor as we were, my son never lacked for anything,’ she recalled.<\/p>\n

Jeremy was in and out of their son’s life, and Pattie insists that contrary to some reports, he didn’t just show up again when Justin became famous.<\/p>\n

‘Today, Jeremy is a totally different person than he was when Justin was a baby,’ she said. ‘He has changed in many ways for the better. Being a father is his first priority. It\u2019s evident in the way he is a full-time parent to his two younger children (from another relationship) and to Justin. I\u2019m proud of what a great dad he has become.’<\/p>\n

In Chapter 15 of her memoir, she details the early stages of her son’s career after his covers of songs she uploaded to YouTube went viral.<\/p>\n

She was by his side for his first visit to Atlanta to visit Scooter Braun, and their eventual move there from Stratford.<\/p>\n

Her writings emphasise her faith in her son’s talents, while also admitting she ‘didn’t know’ what his success would actually entail.<\/p>\n

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Pattie (pictured in a recent Instagram post) has admitted she has struggled with mental health in the past<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She says in her book: ‘I believed in Justin with all my heart and was excited for his new future.<\/p>\n

‘I knew without a doubt how talented he was and how much he wanted this. I just didn’t know what to expect.’<\/p>\n

And while signing his documents, she revealed she was ‘afraid’ her decisions would ‘put him in the path of unhealthy, long-term relationships’ – in words that have now become haunting as the allegations surrounding Diddy have surfaced.<\/p>\n

Pattie writes: ‘Things were happening so big and so fast with Justin. I was responsible for signing contracts that could affect a large portion of Justin’s life.<\/p>\n

‘Pages and pages of legal jargon were being presented to me each day and even though I had an attorney who helped me walk through each paragraph, it was still a daunting task.<\/p>\n

‘At the end of the day, I was Justin’s mother. I was accountable for any documents for any documents I signed, or any deal I authorised… I was afraid of making a mistake.<\/p>\n

‘What if I signed something that steered Justin in the wrong direction, or put him in the path of unhealthy, long-term relationships?’<\/p>\n

‘But I couldn’t allow those questions and fears to complicate things. God wouldn’t have put me in this situation to fail. I began to follow my instincts. I’m sure I made mistakes along the way, but what parent doesn’t?’<\/p>\n

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