Madison Beer talks 'special' friendship with Justin Bieber since childhood: 'I love him'
Madison Beer talks 'special' friendship with Justin Bieber since childhood: 'I love him'
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Madison Beer is opening up about her traumatic start as a child star.
The "Make You Mine" singer opened up about being dropped by music manager Scooter Braun and her label, the inappropriate comments made about her appearance as a teenager, as well as her longtime friendship with Hailey and Justin Bieber, in a Cosmopolitan cover story published April 28.
Justin Bieber discovered Beer, now 26, after she posted a cover of Etta James' "At Last" in 2012, and shared it with his former manager, Braun, who signed her. The experience of being signed so young proved to be "disturbing," including "grown men talking about how I was too sexy" at 14, she said, and a nude photo leak incident at 15. Then at 16, due to a lack of momentum in her career, she said her team dropped her.
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"Literally the same day my manager dropped me, my lawyer dropped me, and my label dropped me. Everything in my life went away within 12 hours," she told the outlet. "I was 16 and my label was like, 'Good luck.' And I'm like, 'You guys just stole years of my childhood that I'll never get back.'"
She went from being told she was "going to be the female Justin Bieber, give it a year" to being "dropped on (her) head."
"I can't go to college because I've been homeschooled," she continued. "I have a high school degree and nothing else because of my career. My whole family uprooted and moved to Los Angeles with no connections. I have no friends. Are you guys kidding me?"
She said she was suddenly estranged from people who once treated her like family.
"I felt like I was a dollar sign to them and when I didn't bring in enough money, they didn't care about me anymore," Beer said. "Maybe they shouldn't have signed a 12-year-old without thinking of the consequences of what that was going to do."
Beer has since spoken out against Braun, who in recent years stopped managing Bieber. "Justin was also only a teenager when I got signed — he hadn't even experienced his adult life yet," said Beer. "He's been through so much, too."
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The singer and Bieber remain close, she said, having met the pair around the time they met each other.
"I love him and Hailey (Bieber) very much. I was with them recently and we were like, 'How special that we've known each other for so long,'" Beer said. "I've known Hailey since I was 10, and I've known Justin since I was 12. We're still in each other's lives and now they're married with a baby."
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