Hailey Bieber denies feud with Selena Gomez, criticizing the “dangerous and false narrative” that pitted the two women
Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez are back to talk
No quarrels this time, on the contrary, we really talk about the problems of the past. In fact, Hailey Bieber told of the ” invented feud” between her and Selena Gomez , which has been at the center of rumors on social media in recent months.
The Rhode Beauty founder , who is married to Selena’s ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber, addressed the drama that circulated online earlier this year, in which fans of both insisted a feud was ongoing between the two women.
What’s going on between Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber
Selena Gomez has openly defended Hailey Bieber on the web after the latter received death threats precisely because of the alleged ongoing feud between them.
In a photo, shared on Instagram Stories, Selena Gomez said:
“Hailey Bieber reached out to me and let me know that she has received death threats and a lot of hate and negativity . This is not what I want or stand for.No one should be hated or bullied. I’ve always advocated kindness and I really want this to stop.”
But what exactly is Selena referring to? And why would Hailey Bieber be the victim of hate because of Selena? Let’s put things in order and see, step by step, what happened between Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber in recent weeks.
At the end of 2022 Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber posed for a photo together at the Academy Museum Gala, thus announcing (publicly) between the lines that they had left behind any animosity.
Now, however, just five months later, there seems to be a new crisis between the two women.Though speculation about Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber’s bad relationship has reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, their drama has been going on for years. More precisely since Hailey married Selena’s longtime ex-boyfriend, Justin Bieber, immediately after their last separation.
The current rumors started when a TikTok user speculated about a new, potential spat between the singer and the model. Things then fell apart, and Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift also ended up in the middle, dividing the world of social media into two teams: pro Selena (almost all in fact) and pro Hailey.
It all started with Selena Gomez’s eyebrows
On Feb. 22, Gomez posted a video to her Instagram Stories, telling her followers how she accidentally overlammed her brows . Jokingly, the singer said that the beauty treatment had not gone according to plan.Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber few hours later, Bieber’s wife Hailey posted a screenshot on Instagram of herself taking a FaceTime call with her friend Kylie Jenner. The same thing Jenner did. In the screenshot, the two influencers showed close-ups of their eyebrows , which fans perceived as a dig at Selena Gomez. Bieber’s involvement in Kylie Jenner’s stories has indeed led fans to believe that there was once again a feud between Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber.
Comments from Kylie Jenner and Selena Gomez
A few days later, as fan speculation mounted, Jenner and Gomez both denified feuding rumors. In a comment on TikTok, Kylie Jenner called the allegations that she and Hailey Bieber attacked Selena Gomez’s eyebrows ” a falsehood” . Gomez herself replied that such speculations were “unnecessary” and that indeed, she is a fan of Kilye’s beauty brand.
However, Hailey Bieber has not publicly commented on the rumors.
Instagram sides with Selena Gomez
And even if Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber may have gotten over their drama, fans aren’t going to ignore it. In the last week, in fact, the world of the web has mobilized to support the singer , earning Gomez about 10.5 million followers on Instagram.Selena Gomez thus dethroned Kylie Jenner as Instagram’s most followed woman with over 380 million followers. That’s the strength of TikTok’s #teamselena , a hashtag with over 269.6 million views.
Selena Gomez and Hailey Bieber move on
After all the speculation, Selena Gomez announced that she was temporarily retiring from social media.
“I’m very happy. I have the best friends and the best fans from all over the world and I couldn’t be more grateful,” Gomez said in a live TikTok posted just days after the brow drama, adding, “I’ll take a second from social media though because I’m a bit tired. I’m 30, I’m too old for all of this.”
According to the fans, in her words Selena Gomez was referring to the umpteenth speculation about her umpteenth alleged spat with Hailey. The singer deleted her TikTok account and said she would also be taking a break from Instagram, although her profile remained active.
Meanwhile, Hailey Bieber takes a vacation to Cabo and posts some tribute photos for Justin’s birthday while maintaining her social media presence.
Fans insult Hailey at Justin Bieber concert
However, the impact of the alleged spat on social media made its way into real life. During a surprise performance by Justin Bieber at the Rolling Loud festival over the weekend, the audience in attendance started chanting “f**k Hailey!” . In videos shared on social media, multiple viewers could be heard yelling the slur.
However, the incident prompted an outpouring of support for Hailey, with fans of both the model and Selena Gomez taking to social media to condemn the behavior.
What Hailey Bieber said about her fight with Selena Gomez
In a new interview, Hailey criticized narratives that she and the singer were at odds with each other, calling the whole situation “vile” and “dangerous.”
“I don’t think it’s about me, Hailey Bieber, or Selena Gomez, but it has to do with two women at odds ,” the model said, adding, “It’s about the vile and disgusting hatred that can come from completely made up narratives, twisted and perpetuated. It can be really dangerous.”
“I think it’s an opportunity to really stand up for bringing people together and I don’t agree at all with the kind of division it’s caused ,” she said.
Just a few months ago, the situation had escalated to the point where Selena released a statement on Instagram urging her fans to stop harassing Hailey, who had also gotten to receiving death threats.
The model later publicly thanked Selena for coming to her defense.
Going deeper into this moment, during the interview Hailey Bieber said: «I don’t like this whole idea of team Hailey vs team Selena . I wish I could be able to bring people together and not create all this division.”
“I hated this situation from the start. Every time I say there’s no problem between me and Selena Gomez, but it’s so disappointing that people still act like this about it.”