As much as we've poured scorn in the past, it's incredibly difficult not to empathise with someone when they say "Being young and growing up in this business is hard. Growing up in general is hard."
Growing up in general is hard. I've acted the tw*t innumerable times when young (and not so young) and Lord knows where the brain would be if all those incidents had been played out in front of a global audience.
In case you're unable to view the video, he said:
"I just wanted to make a video because I wanted to express how I feel right now. So today I was on Ellen, and it was a lot of fun... but I was really nervous. I think I was nervous because I was afraid of what people are thinking about about me right now. It’s been a minute since I’ve been in a public appearance, and I didn’t want to come off arrogant conceited or basically how I’ve been acting the past year and a half. I'm not who I was pretending to be... And there were 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... I just felt awkward up there. I felt like people were judging me, and I really want people to know how much I care, how much I care about people, and how I’m not that person to say, 'I don’t give a f***,' you know? I’m not that kid. I’m a person who genuinely cares. And although what’s happened in the past has happened, I just want to make the best impression on people and be kind and loving and gentle and soft. And although people can call me a "softy," that’s how my mom raised me."
As for said appearance on Ellen...
Yeah, Ellen had no idea Justin was going to be on, what with the seamless cuing of the Calvin Klein ad, 'n all... What a pro.
