Because the drama fades after TikTok’s dissection of Hailey Bieber’s historical past with Selena Gomez, Hailey as soon as once more gave a public, low-key message of assist to Selena. Hailey cherished Selena’s throwback Instagram of herself sporting platinum hair and a print bikini. Each ladies at the moment are following one another on Instagram following their statements from Friday asking followers to cease harassing Hailey. Hailey likes Instagrams of Selena a couple instances earlier than, however that is the primary time Hailey has preferred one straight on Selena’s web page.
On Friday, each ladies revealed they’d spoken privately concerning the Selena-Hailey viral discourse on social media. Followers had delved into Hailey’s therapy of Selena over time, with some accusing Hailey of being a imply woman. Hailey is, in fact, married to Justin Bieber, Selena’s ex-boyfriend whom she sometimes dated for eight years.
Selena first shared her assertion, asking followers to cease and revealing that Hailey had acquired demise threats. “Hailey Bieber contacted me and let me know that she has been receiving demise threats and such hateful negativity,” Selena stated. “This isn’t what I stand for. Nobody ought to expertise hatred or bullying. I’ve all the time advocated kindness and really need this all to cease. ♥️”
Hailey adopted up along with her personal feedback expressing her gratitude for talking out to Selena. She went on to clarify that everybody, together with herself, could possibly be extra cautious about what they are saying and publish on-line.
She stated:
I wish to thank Selena for talking up as she and I’ve spent the previous few weeks discussing easy methods to get previous this ongoing story between her and me.
The previous few weeks have been very tough for everybody concerned and hundreds of thousands of individuals see a lot hatred round this, which is extraordinarily damaging. Whereas social media is an unimaginable method to join and construct neighborhood, moments like this solely create excessive divisions as a substitute of bringing individuals collectively.
Issues can all the time be taken out of context or interpreted in another way than they had been supposed. All of us must assume extra rigorously about what we publish and what we are saying, myself included.
Ultimately, I imagine that love will all the time be better than hate and negativity, and that there’s all the time a chance to fulfill with better empathy and compassion.
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Alyssa Bailey is the senior information and technique editor at ELLE.com, the place she oversees protection of celebrities and royals (most notably Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She beforehand held positions at In fashion And Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she likes to run round Central Park, have individuals take #ootd photos of her, and discover New York Metropolis.
