Justin Bieber once said he ‘didn’t know if he’d be alive now’ in a heartbreaking old interview from 2020.

The 30-year-old father-of-one, who has yet to speak out about his former

following sex trafficking charges against the rapper, shot to fame as a teenager. He became an overnight success but struggled with the limelight over the years.

In an interview in 2020 with Zane Lowe for Apple Music, the Peaches singer broke down as he opened up about the realities of the music industry and wanting to protect a then 18-year-old Billie Eilish. Zane asked Justin:

“Do you think you then were on a path of self-destruction? Do you feel like you were self-destructing?”