Justin Bieber responded to backlash over his April Fool’s pregnancy prank.
The 25-year-old received a huge amount of criticism after joking that his wife, Hailey Baldwin was pregnant.
Many fans called Justin’s prank “insensitive” and felt that it was not funny to those who cannot have children, or have lost a baby.
The singer has now responded to the backlash and took to Instagram to apologise, but also told fans that he didn’t mean for it be anything more than a joke.
“There’s always gonna be people offended, there’s also people who don’t take jokes very well, I am a prankster and it was APRIL FOOLS. I didn’t at all mean to be insensitive to people who can’t have children,” he wrote.
“A lot of people I know, their first go to prank on April fools is telling their parents they are pregnant to get a big reaction. But I will apologize anyway and take responsibility and say sorry to people who were offended.”
“I truly don’t want anyone to be hurt by a prank.. it’s like when I shoved cake in my little sisters face for her birthday expecting her to laugh but she cried.” (sic)
Justin continued on to say that you never know when a prank will offend someone or make someone laugh: “You sometimes just don’t know what will hurt someone’s feelings not to compare pregnancy with cake in the face but it’s just to paint the picture of not knowing what will offend.”
“Some might have laughed but some were offended .. I think With pranks u sometimes have to roll that dice. #prankster #dennisthemenace #sorry#truly”.
Some fans accepted Justin’s apology, while others said that they were still outraged by his prank and some also felt the apology was unnecessary.
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