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“It is a challenging social minefield a lot of these famous people walk through,” he said. “He’ll either have to find a way to enjoy the new personality so to speak or to find a way of recovering the previous one and having the two co-exist.”

The person I have become is not who I am

Bieber was raised by a single mom in social housing and his father only came back into his life after Bieber became a global phenomenon.

“People are coming at you with expectations, not necessarily about doing the best for the sake of the real Justin Bieber,” Joordens said.

As he grew up, Bieber says he failed to learn how to act responsibly. With people doing everything for him, he turned “18 with no skills in the real world, with millions of dollars and access to whatever I wanted,” he wrote.

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Some of his past scandals include: fights with paparazzi, fans and actors; charges for assault, careless driving and resisting arrest; claiming Holocaust victim Anne Frank would be a “Belieber”; and urinating in a custodian’s mop bucket while cursing at former U.S. president Bill Clinton.

One of the incidents occurred when he quietly returned to his hometown to ride an ATV, which Joordens said, may have been an attempt to return to a simpler time.

“The life you knew has just disappeared and its been replaced by the circus,” he said.

“He wishes to get away from it and go somewhere he’s not bombarded and people like him for who he is — and then the fame comes rushing back to him.”

All of the controversies led to a petition hosted on the White House website to deport the singer from the U.S. It amassed more than 273,000 signatures.