Behind his spectacular success, pop superstar JUSTIN BIEBER hides a tragic secret — his mother attempted suicide after years of sexual abuse.
As a troubled teen, Pattie Mallette — who launched her son’s career by posting his music videos on You-Tube — tried to throw herself in front of a car.
Fortunately, the driver managed to avoid her. And just a year later, she was pregnant with the child who’d grow up to be a worldwide phenomenon.
“The sexual abuse in my life started when I was about five years old until I was about 10 or so,” Pattie said during a Canadian TV interview. She never told a soul about the abuse, but eventually Pattie turned to drugs and alcohol to numb her pain.
“I was pretty much high or drunk from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed,” she said. “I started when I was about 14 or 15.”
At 15, Pattie ran away from her home in London, Ontario, and moved in with a group of men.
“I just lived a life of sin, drugs and alcohol constantly and parties constantly and not going to school and stealing,” she confessed.
By 17, her life was unbearable. So she planned to leap into traffic, hoping the impact would kill her.
“I was depressed and angry and just snapped one day,” she recalled. “I said, ‘I want to die,’ and I wanted to find the quickest way possible.
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