Justin Bieber is speaking frankly for the first time about his past experiences with drug addiction.
In an episode of his documentary series "Justin Bieber: Sessions," released Monday, the 25-year-old pop star got candid about his past drug use, which began with smoking marijuana when he was "12 or 13."
The singer has previously opened up about a past of "doing pretty heavy drugs," but delved into much greater detail in the new episode. He began depending on marijuana heavily and later got involved with alcohol, lean (a mixture of codeine cough syrup, soda and hard candy), taking pills, MDMA, psychedelic mushrooms, "everything." Bieber eventually decided he wanted to get sober when he "felt like I was dying."
"My security and stuff would come into my room at night to check my pulse," he recalled. "People don't know how serious it got. It was legit crazy scary. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing was popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day. It just got scary."
