Hailey Bieber Sets the Record Straight on Selena Gomez Chants at 2021 Met Gala
Hailey Bieber is setting the record straight about those Selena Gomez chants at the 2021 Met Gala. Nope, she wasn't crying.The 25-year-old model addressed the ordeal during her in-depth conversation on the podcast with Alex Cooper, who asked Hailey what happened when she and her husband, Justin Bieber, were on the red carpet at the ritzy affair posing for the throng of photographers amid boisterous «Se-le-na!, Se-le-na!» chants from the frenzied crowd.«I could hear everyone screaming and, again, I think there's a certain part of you that has a numbness of just like, I was like, really surprised,» Hailey said on the podcast that dropped Wednesday on Spotify. «I could kind of hear, but I didn't know if that's what was really going on until I saw the video after, the whole thing of everybody being like, 'Oh, he's trying to tell her not to cry.' That was not true.
It [the Selena chants] wasn't making me cry, although it's a very disrespectful thing to do towards anybody.»The video in question loomed so large online and fueled the social media-created war between Selena and Hailey, that even the podcast used the snippet in its 55-second teaser for its highly anticipated interview with Hailey.
So, after all these years, Hailey addresses what really happened on the red carpet that led trolls to brag that the chants made Hailey cry.«I felt like I had something in my eye,» Hailey explained. «That's just what goes to show you how out of context things can be seen, when he's like trying to help me.
I'm like, 'I feel like there's something in my eye. Do you see something in my eye?'»Hailey says that, as she tried to figure out what was in her eye, she could hear everyone's chanting.«But yeah, I did hear people yelling,» she added..
