When Hailey Bieber first started dating her now-husband, Justin Bieber, back in 2018, it was controversial, to say the least.
For context, before his relationship with Hailey, Justin had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with Selena Gomez since 2011.
Justin and Selena split for the final time in March 2018, and just three months later, he was publicly linked to Hailey.
Because of this incredibly quick turnaround in Justin’s relationships, Selena and Hailey have regularly found themselves being pitted against one another and are regularly at the center of vicious attacks from the other’s fanbase.
That same year, she said during an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast that the public reaction to her and Justin’s wedding was “really drastic and really crazy.”
And in a new interview with W magazine, Hailey has admitted that six years later, the scrutiny that her and Justin’s relationship regularly faces still hurts as she acknowledged that public perception has tarnished their romance since the very beginning.
“People have made me feel so bad about my relationship since day one,” Hailey told the publication. “‘Oh, they’re falling apart. They hate each other. They’re getting divorced.’ It’s like people don’t want to believe that we’re happy.”
“I used to try to act like it hurts less and less. I’ve tried to think that you get used to it at a certain point, that this is what’s going to be said, and this is how people are going to be,” she added. “But I realize that it doesn’t actually ever hurt any less.”