Hailey Bieber and Justin Bieber are soon to be first-time parents, but whenever the two post about their pregnancy, the comments under posts are largely about one person: Justin’s ex Selena Gomez. Even though Justin and Hailey have been married since 2018, and Selena also seems to have found a steady partner in Benny Blanco, Jelena fans still refuse to move on from the on-again-off-again tumultuous relationship between Justin and Selena. In fact, it was even alleged that Jelena fans chanting Selena’s name when Justin and Hailey walked the Met Gala carpet in 2021 made Hailey Bieber cry. But, what’s the truth? Come find out!
Dressed in black, when the Biebers made their Met Gala appearance in 2021, a video of the couple went viral. In the video, as fans chanted Selena’s name, Justin could allegedly be seen consoling Hailey Bieber, who looked like she was trying to hold back tears. Later on, Hailey put on dark sunglasses, which fans allege was to hide her tears. At the time, the video seemed pretty convincing. However, later on, Hailey Bieber revealed if she was really crying that day.
Did Hailey Bieber really cry?
Taking to Alex Cooper on the Call Her Daddy podcast in 2022, Hailey Bieber denied that the chants made her cry. She said, “So, yes, I could hear everyone screaming. And, again, I think there’s a certain part of you that has a numbness. I was, like, really surprised. I could kind of hear it, but I didn’t know if that’s what was really going on until I saw the video after.”
“The whole thing of everybody being like: ‘Oh he’s trying to tell her not to cry,’ that was not true,” Hailey Bieber further said. “It wasn’t making me cry.” “Although, it’s a very disrespectful thing to do towards anybody,” she explained that she may have looked tearful because she “felt like [she] had something in [her] eye.”
As to why she chose to wear glasses later on the red carpet, she said that they were part of her look and she would have worn them anyway.
In the same interview, Hailey Bieber clarified that she has not “stolen” Justin Bieber from Selena despite the rumors that their relationships overlapped. She said, “When he and I ever started hooking up or anything of that sort, he was not ever in a relationship, ever, at any point. 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.”
