He refused to meet fans who had paid for meet and greets earlier this year, and now Justin Bieber has sent out a PSA to all Beliebers that he will not be posing for pictures if he sees them on the street.
In an Instagram post on Tuesday night, the 22-year-old singer told his followers not to approach him for a picture if they saw him out and about, as it made him feel like he was a „zoo animal”.
„If you happen to see me out somewhere know that I’m not gonna take a picture,” the Love Yourself singer wrote.
Justin Bieber at the 2016 iHeartradio Awards. Photo: Getty
„It has gotten to the point that people won’t even say hi to me or recognise me as a human, I feel like a zoo animal, and I wanna be able to keep my sanity.”
The singer added that, while he understand some fans will be disappointed, he does not „owe anybody a picture”.
„And people who say ‘but I bought ur [sic] album’ know that you got my album and you got what you paid for, AN ALBUM!” Bieber wrote. „It doesn’t say in fine print [that] whenever you see me you also get a photo.”
Bieber’s new photography policy comes after the singer was photographed walking around Boston without shoes on Monday, when the city’s temperature ranged between seven and 18 degrees.
According to Page Six, a „frenzy of fans” approached the barefoot singer who was wandering around a local park the day before the Boston leg of his Purpose World Tour, which played at the city’s TD Garden on Tuesday night.
Bieber has become increasingly strict about being photographed and filmed.
In addition to his ban on fan meet and greets (which he said he instigated after saying he found the pressure of fans’ expectations to be „too much to handle” and the meet and greet experience leaving him „drained and unhappy”), Bieber was sued for $US100,000 ($136,000) earlier this month after allegedly smashing a fan’s mobile phone „into pieces” when he discovered the man was filming him playing a game of beer pong at Cle nightclub in Houston, Texas.
