Hailey Bieber has slammed the “really dangerous” narrative pitting her against Selena Gomez.
The model, who is married to Selena’s ex Justin Bieber, addressed the ongoing feud rumours during her recent appearance on Bloomberg’s ‘The Circuit with Emily Chang’.
She said: “I don’t think that this is about me, Hailey Bieber, and Selena Gomez. This is not about this pitting between two women and division between two women.”
“It’s about the vile, disgusting hatred that can come from completely made-up and twisted and perpetuated narratives. That can be really dangerous.”
The 26-year-old continued: “I think that it’s an opportunity to really stand for bringing people together and not being ok with the kind of division that it caused because I’m not ok with the kind of division that it caused.”
“I don’t like this whole idea of team this person and team this person – I’m just not about that. I want to be able to bring people together.”
“I don’t want silly made-up drama to affect what I’m focusing and working on. There’s narratives that exist for me that really hurt my feelings and make me really upset.”
“It’s so disappointing that people still behave this way over a man. It’s the world we live in, unfortunately.”
It comes just months after Selena pleaded with her fans to “stop sending death threats” to Hailey – who is married to her ex Justin Bieber.
The model then publicly thanked the singer for “speaking out”, and told fans that they want to “move past this ongoing narrative” between them.
The pair then started following each other on Instagram, proving that there is no more bad blood between them.
Selena famously dated Justin Bieber on-and-off for eight years, before they officially called it quits in 2018.
Shortly after his split from Selena, Justin rekindled his romance with Hailey in 2018.
That July, the Canadian singer proposed to the model during a trip to the Bahamas, and they secretly tied the knot in September 2018.
One year later, the couple exchanged vows for the second time at a star-studded ceremony in South Carolina.
During her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast last September, Hailey revealed she got a lot of hate from Selena’s fans for “stealing” Justin from her.
Setting the record straight on the claims, the model told host Alex Cooper: “When him and I started hooking up, or anything of that sort, he was not in any relationship, It’s not my character to mess with someone’s relationship, I would just never do that. I was raised better than that…”
“I think there are situations where you can still have back and forth with someone, but even that was not the situation,” Hailey continued. “I can say period, point blank, that I was never with him when he was in a relationship with anybody. That’s the end of it.”
“A lot of the hate comes from like ‘oh you stole him’, and I guess that comes from the fact that they wished he ended up with someone else. And that’s fine, you can wish that all you want, but that’s just not the case.”
“There’s a certain numbness that you get [from the hate]. It still happens to this day. If I was to go live right now, it would still be happening. You reach a point where you have to ignore it.”
“If we have moved on, why can’t you?” she added. “It’s hurtful and it’s bullying.”
Back in February, Hailey was accused of “bullying” Selena on social media, but appears the pair have since quashed feud rumours once and for all.
