- - Justin Bieber Shares Emotional Post About Healing on Christmas Eve: 'I've Been Through Pain'

Raven BrunnerDecember 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM

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Justin Bieber shared a series of emotional posts on Instagram, looking back on his experience in the music industry

"I don't want to burn the music industry down. I want to see it made new – safer, more honest, more human," he wrote

The singer had his breakthrough with his EP My World in 2009

Justin Bieber is feeling reflective ahead of the Christmas holiday.

The singer, 31, shared a series of emotional posts on Instagram on Wednesday, Dec. 24, looking back on his experience in the music industry.

"Christmas time is that time to reflect and ask yourself what you really want. What truly fulfills?" he captioned his first post.

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Justin Bieber performs onstage during 'Homecoming Weekend' in Los Angeles in February 2022

Christmas, Bieber wrote, "is a reminder of Jesus and the free gift of forgiveness only he can offer." He then proceeded to reflect on his own journey, admitting that "letting go [of] resentment is hard."

"Hope wherever you are you can lean into this love that meets us exactly where we are no matter what," the “Love Song" singer said.

The post contained a snapshot of several pages of notes, called "A Message." In it, Bieber wrote, "I grew in a system that rewarded my gift but didn't always protect my soul."

The singer, who had his breakthrough with his 2009 EP My World, added, "There were moments I felt used, rushed, shaped into something I didn't fully choose. This kind of pressure leaves wounds you don’t see on stage."

Speaking about his faith, he wrote, "I’ve carried anger. I’ve asked God why. But Jesus keeps meeting me in the middle of the pain – not excusing what hurt me, but teaching me how not to become bitter."

"I’ve been through pain that shaped me before I had the words to name it. I was in a system that took more than it protected," Bieber continued, before stating that he is now "healed" and on a journey of forgiveness. "I don’t want to burn the music industry down," he expressed. "I want to see it made new – safer, more honest, more human."

Bieber also said he didn't "come out of this untouched," but noted that his pain "doesn’t define me anymore." He continued, "I’m not speaking as a victim still bleeding – I’m speaking as someone restored."

The Grammy winner repeated his sentiments in a second Instagram post, this time without a caption. About an hour later, he shared two selfies of himself with an emoji of two people hugging.

The first photo is a close up of his face, showing him glancing to the side, while the second snap shows him smiling at the camera with his cozy fireplace on display.

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Justin Bieber

On the same day, the SWAG II artist uploaded a snap of his 16-month-old son Jack Blues walking onto a private plane wearing a red Santa hat with a matching red sweater.

The doting dad – who shares his son with his wife Hailey Baldwin Bieber – also included a glimpse at the family of three's holiday decorations, showing three matching cream-colored stockings hanging above the fireplace.

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Earlier this month, Bieber took a trip down memory lane and shared an Instagram Reel of him returning to the location where he filmed the music video for his 2010 single "Baby."

"Went to where I shot my music video for baby . This is what happened," Bieber captioned the post, tagging a few friends and collaborators who accompanied him including Eddie Benjamin, Oranj Goodman and Gabriel Jacoby, as well as Kyle Massey.

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