Hailey Bieber has made it clear: She has her husband’s back. After fans expressed concern over a video of Justin partying at Coachella, two sources spoke to People about how Hailey feels about Justin’s well-being these days.
One source close to Hailey and Justin downplayed the Coachella video, saying the couple was trying to ignore the commentary. “Justin is having fun, vibing out and yes, he smokes weed like everyone else,” the insider said. “But everything he does is being weaponized against him.”
That source then shut down any divorce rumors. “Hailey is not on the verge of wanting a divorce or leaving him. It’s just completely untrue,” the insider explained. “If anything she’s sad about how hard everyone is being on him now that he finally is coming back out of his shell.”
A second source, this one close to Justin, agreed that Hailey isn’t breaking up with him. “Hailey’s very loyal to him. She’s not walking away, but she knows something has to change,” the insider added. “Her focus is raising [their son] Jack in a stable environment. She’s drawn a line around what she’s willing to tolerate. She means the world to Justin. They have quietly weathered more than most couples ever do.”
Hailey herself has spoken about supporting Justin through his challenges over the years—but she’s also made it clear that she plans to stand by him.
Their first year of marriage in 2018 was particularly tough. She told ELLE in our March 2020 issue, “He was really sick. He has Lyme disease, and he was dealing with a bunch of medical stuff. We didn’t have a diagnosis. And it was hard because everybody from the outside was being super mean and judgmental, saying he looked like he was on drugs, saying how unhealthy he looked, when in truth, he was not healthy and we didn’t know why.” She continued, “It was months of me being a new wife trying to help him figure out what was wrong and what was going on. Now he’s perfectly healthy.”
Hailey added that they were thrown into the marriage vow of “in sickness and in health. We went straight into figuring out the hard stuff. Because you never know what can happen with someone’s health. When you don’t know what’s happening, it’s really scary. And then you have the opinions of everybody from the outside, and it just sucks.”
In November 2021, Hailey shared more about that period of time during her appearance on the In Good Faith with Chelsea & Judah Smith podcast.
“I remember I called [my mom, Kennya Baldwin] a few different times, one particular time [when] we were in Brooklyn and I was calling her, I was crying, and I was like, ‘I just can’t do it. There’s no way that I’m going to be able to do this if it’s going to be like this forever,’” Hailey said. “And I just remember she was so calm on the phone, and she was like, ‘It’s going to pass, and you’re going to be fine and he’s going to be healthy and we’re here for you.’ And I do feel like we had a lot of support. I feel like if I didn’t have support, it would’ve been 10 times harder, and it was already the hardest thing in my life at the time so I also just think I was in it. I made a decision. I know for a fact that I’ve loved this person for a very long time and now would not be the time to give up on him. I just wouldn’t do that to him.
“Imagine abandoning somebody in the middle of the worst time of their life, potentially. I’m not that type of a person,” she continued. “So I was going to stick it out no matter what the outcome was going to be. It was really hard. There were days where I literally was like, ‘I don’t know if he’s going to be okay.’ Something really deep down inside of me was like, ‘He’s going to get through it.’ I just didn’t know how long it was going to take. That’s what I think was the hardest thing. There’s no guarantees.”
