Justin Bieber referenced ketamine in a sequence of Instagram Tales the place he expressed frustration about being informed he must “work arduous” on enhancing himself.
“That is how I really feel after folks preserve telling me there’s extra work to do after I’ve given all the things I’ve to present. I don’t assume any of us can deal with listening to, ‘You simply gotta attempt just a little more durable and you may be like me.’ It’s not true,’” Bieber, 31, wrote over an excessive closeup picture of his face through Instagram on Saturday, June 7. “I listened to fools who informed me to work more durable. And there’s no finish to attempting to earn ur spot on this life as a result of I attempted.”
He added on a extra constructive be aware, “U have all the things U want proper now.”
The “Peaches” singer later shared extra ideas about the best way some folks “wanna make [their] life about work so unhealthy.”
“This life is about God loving us so we are able to love one another,” he insisted. “Give up making ur life about work smh [shaking my head]. God will at all times encourage U to need to work arduous.”
Bieber then argued, “U assume in case you don’t inform folks to work arduous, they received’t. Cease taking part in God please.”
One other slide included screenshot of an AI response to Bieber asking if “ketamine has been used to manage folks’s feelings.” The AI response claimed that “there may be clear proof ketamine has been misused in sure legislation enforcement situations” with “proportionate results on Black people.” (Ketamine is a prescription drug that can be utilized as a dissociative anesthetic to deal with melancholy and ache administration beneath a physician’s care.)
In a subsequent Instagram Story, Bieber advised that “conditioning” will “make u really feel like u didn’t know what the f*** you knew.”

Justin Bieber in January 2025. XNY/Star Max/GC Photos
“I f***ing at all times knew in my intestine that Jesus was the reply to the ache we’re all going through,” he continued. “Individuals nonetheless preserve making me assume if I work arduous on myself, I’ll [be] higher like them. However the more durable I work on myself, the extra I take into consideration myself. I believed the purpose was to consider each other? The one factor that helps me to consider others [is] to let go, not attempt more durable.”
Bieber concluded by encouraging his followers to “be a part of [him] in letting go of not attempting more durable.”
His newest poignant posts come on the heels of one other contemplative Instagram message on June 3, the place he argued that “’loyalty’ is manipulative language.”
“Loyalty is an obligation, it’s an obligation,” he wrote. “That’s not free will. Love isn’t an obligation. Love is a delight. Please cease utilizing loyalty to maintain folks round you out of your personal worry … it’s hurting us.”
He then claimed, “Mafia members use loyalty to maintain folks of their gangs. Let’s not perpetuate this manipulative language. Love over loyalty perpetually.”
Bieber has been posting cryptic messages incessantly through his social media over the previous few months, together with telling his followers that “God decides what we deserve” on June 3.
Elsewhere, Justin celebrated spouse Hailey Bieber changing into a billionaire after e.l.f. Magnificence acquired her skincare model Rhode on Might 28. He launched photographs displaying him kissing Hailey, 28, on the cheek whereas they shared a hug.
On Might 29, Justin even provided a uncommon glimpse at his 9-month-old son Jack Blues, together with one lovable shot of Jack perched on his shoulders whereas they posed in entrance of a golf cart.
Justin and Hailey welcomed Jack in August 2024. The couple tied the knot in a New York Metropolis courthouse ceremony in September 2018, earlier than internet hosting a marriage reception for family and friends in South Carolina in September 2019.