Justin Bieber Compares Himself to Amy Winehouse as He Reveals He Feels Depressed and Isolated
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"And I feel isolated," he says in the cover story for NME's latest issue, out Friday. "You're in your hotel room and there are fans all around, paparazzi following you everywhere, and it gets intense. When you can't go anywhere or do anything alone you get depressed. I would not wish this upon anyone."
Bieber, 21, tells the magazine he gets lonely on the road – to the point where he relates to the late Amy Winehouse, whose struggles with fame and addiction are explored in the recent film Amy.
"People see the glam and the amazing stuff, but they don't know the other side. This life can rip you apart," he shares. "I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary on the plane and I had tears in my eyes because I could see what the media was doing to her, how they were treating her."
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He continued, "People thought it was funny to poke her when she was at rock bottom, to keep pushing her down until she had no more of herself. And that's what they were trying to do to me."
The pop star – whose new album Purpose comes out Friday (preorder here) – attributes his various legal issues to "rebelling against everybody and everything, and being a normal 19 year old."
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"It's because of the way the 'Justin Bieber brand' was portrayed," he says, explaining his tough years in the spotlight. "I was a wholesome pop star who was so amazing who had nice hair and a f------ image that no one could ever live up to. So when all this happened people were like, 'Woah, let's rip him apart.'"
That's when Bieber compares himself to Ryan Gosling, 35, and Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, saying, "If you see Gandhi roll up a blunt, it's different to seeing Ryan Gosling roll up a blunt. You wouldn't give Ryan Gosling a hard time."
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