Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
The Schmooze

Justin Bieber Pees in Public

I think it’s fair to say that you can officially be labeled a child star brat once you casually drop your pants in a restaurant kitchen and urinate into a mop bucket on your way out of a club.

Who would do such a thing, you might ask? The answer, unsurprisingly, is Justin Bieber.

According to TMZ, the 19-year-old pop sensation was exiting a nightclub in New York earlier this year when he found himself in need of a bathroom. Because public restrooms are obviously for lowly plebs and not international superstars, Bieber decided to relieve himself in a restaurant kitchen he happened to be passing through. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the singer was filmed by his posse, who whooped and cheered, as the singer cackled at his own daring achievement.

This is just the latest in a series of obnoxious antics that have people worrying that the singer will lose some of his eager young tween fans.

Here’s hoping.

A message from our Publisher & CEO Rachel Fishman Feddersen

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.

We’ve set a goal to raise $260,000 by December 31. That’s an ambitious goal, but one that will give us the resources we need to invest in the high quality news, opinion, analysis and cultural coverage that isn’t available anywhere else.

If you feel inspired to make an impact, now is the time to give something back. Join us as a member at your most generous level.

—  Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO

With your support, we’ll be ready for whatever 2025 brings.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.