Justin Bieber has apologized for the second time in a week for using the “n-word.” A second video of the pop superstar using the offensive term surfaced early Wednesday.
As previously reported, word that a second video of Bieber using the “n-word” was reported by the U.K. tabloid The Sun. TMZ then posted the video, in which Bieber replaces the world “girl” in his early hit “One Less Lonely Girl” with the “n-word.” The video was made five years ago, when Bieber was 14 and also features him joking about the KKK.
In a statement to Us Weekly, Bieber called hearing about mistakes he made years ago the “hardest things I’ve ever dealt with” and that he is no longer that 14-year-old kid.
“But I feel now that I need to take responsibility for those mistakes and not let them linger,” the statement continued. “I just hope that the next 14-year-old kid who doesn’t understand the power of these words does not make the same mistakes I made years ago. At the end of the day I just need to step up and own what I did.”
He also posted a Bible verse on Instagram:
image via Instagram from Justin Bieber
According to Billboard, Bieber manager Scooter Braun also posted on Instagram, “Some mistakes have no excuses. They are just wrong. But how a man reacts to those mistakes… How he owns it and learns from it… That defines him more than the mistake itself.”
Bieber issued a similar statement over the weekend, saying that he has learned and grown up since the videos were made. He also apologized for using the word.
“I was a kid then and I am a man now who knows my responsibility to the world and to not make that mistake again,” Bieber, now 19, said.
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