Overview

• The Instagram carousel featured four close-up shots of Bieber sweating under a towel and a fifth image of a Honda CRV on a European highway
• Followers flooded the comments with pleas for him to return to Canada and focus on his mental and physical well-being
• Bieber’s publicist branded persistent drug-use allegations “exhausting and pitiful” and maintained that he has been in a good place since becoming a father
• Unnamed insiders tell Us Weekly that the singer’s recent behavior has created added strain in his marriage to Hailey Bieber
• Despite denials, reports note that Bieber was seen smoking joints at public events including Coachella and on a snowboarding trip