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Op-Ed: Justin Bieber apologizes on Ellen and in video; guy still rocks

Bieber sorry for bad boy stuff

Missteps during the growing up period, yes, but he remains a fine fellow, as shown in a video he recorded for his fans. After his appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show Wednesday, where the Biebs helped his host celebrate her 57th birthday, he posted the Facebook video today, in it apologizing for his past year or more of odd, sometimes even criminal, behavior.

He did a fine and sincere job in the video, hitting more than a few sound notes. The singer, songwriter, musician from Stratford turns 21 on March 1 so maybe that has induced him to turn a corner, but whatever it was, he appears to have done so.

“I just want to make the best impression on people and be kind and loving and gentle and soft,” he said in his video. “And although people can call me a ‘softie,’ that’s how my mom raised me.”

To quote Andrew Ryan of the Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper: “Aw, The Biebs really is a Canadian at heart.” Got that right, Andrew.

The Biebs makes mistakes

He wants everyone to know “how much I care about people” and that some of the things that have occurred in the past he is not proud of and insisted they were not a reflection of who Justin Bieber truly is. “I didn’t want to come off arrogant or conceited, or basically how I’ve been acting the past year, year and a half,” he said.

“Often we pretend to be something we’re not as a cover up of what we are truly feeling inside. And there was a lot of feelings going on in there. Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard.”

What are those wayward deeds the Never Say Never Kid engaged in? Well, he’s been photographed smoking pot and seen in an amateur video urinating in a mop bucket while dissing Bill Clinton. There’s been the speeding about in his expensive cards and scrapping with paparazzi in Miami, Hawaii, Toronto, L.A., London and Buenos Aires.

In Miami he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drag racing, he has been late for concerts and been in a few fracases in a few nightclubs. Bieber spit at a neighbor, allegedly, and threw eggs at his house (he was convicted and given probation and had to pay the neighbor about $80,000 U.S.).

Justin Bieber the Good

But during that same period, and before, Bieber has consistently contributed time, money and his fame to good causes, including anti-bullying campaigns, anti-texting and driving campaigns, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Pencils for Promise,a charity that builds schools and provides educational tools around the world, and a charity that helps to provide clean water.

Proceeds from his fragrance ‘Someday’ go to charity and he’s auctioned off locks of hair, running shoes and even his boa constrictor, named Johnson, for charitable causes. Wherever he does he regularly pays visits to sick wards for kids and other locations where he can visit with young people living under difficult circumstances, including special needs schools.

So my fellow Canadian’s apology hasn’t fallen upon deaf ears, not for me or, I suspect, millions of his fans (he has 58.9 million Twitter followers). And I’ll contact Bieber’s manager, Scooter Braun, and again offer my services as a chronicler of a couple of months in Bieber’s life. Go along on his next tour – upcoming this year – because there would never be a dull moment.

Even now that he’s jettisoned the bad behavior.

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