'What Do You Mean' hitmaker Justin Bieber has revealed that his low points were over-dramatised because of the 'good boy' image he initially burst onto the music scene with. 

Speaking to the NME recently, the superstar admitted that people are quick to judge his behaviour because he started out with such a clean-cut reputation: 

"It's because of the way the 'Justin Bieber brand' was portrayed... I was a wholesome pop star who was so amazing who had nice hair and a f**king image that no-one could ever live up to. So when all this happened people were like, 'Woah, let's rip him apart'. If you see Gandhi roll up a blunt, it's different to seeing Ryan Gosling roll up a blunt. You wouldn't give Ryan Gosling a hard time."

He also confessed that he feels empathetic towards Amy Winehouse because he knows what it's like to be kicked when you're down: "I watched the Amy Winehouse documentary on the plane and I had tears in my eyes... People thought it was funny to poke her when she was at rock bottom, to keep pushing her down until she had no more of herself. And that's what they were trying to do to me."

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