Kevin Hart Gets Serious About Helping Justin Bieber
Kevin Hart may be known for his comedy, but the 34-year-old insists he is singer Justin Bieber's friend who has done his part to help the singer during turbulent times.
Bieber, the 19-year-old Canadian singer, was accused of assaulting a limousine driver in Toronto, arrested for a DUI and questionable driving in Miami, accused of egging his neighbor's home and pictured performing questionable acts with strippers recently. Still, Hart recently publicly defended the singer.
"I'm a friend. If I say I'm your friend. I'm your friend," Hart said while visiting The Ellen DeGeneres show recently. "Regardless of what you're going through. Uhhh, you know, the media has a way of pouring things on people, when they're in a bad place. Justin's a teenager."
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Hart went on to explain a recent conversation that he had with the singer.
"I called him. I said, 'Look, when I was a teenager, I did stupid stuff too. That's what you're supposed to do as a teenager,'" Hart recalled of his conversation while on the talk show. "The job is to learn from the stupid mistakes that you make. Now, you're about to become an adult, you can't make the same mistakes that you made now. Learn from it. Grow up."
Still, the comedian said there are things that the media does not understand about Bieber.
"Move on, but don't keep giving them ammunition. And he understands that but you know, he's putting himself in position right now for them to keep on finding him and doing things," Hart told host DeGeneres. "But ultimately, he's a kid. He's a kid whose been in this position for his whole life so people don't understand that."
Hart is not the only celebrity to defend Bieber lately. Ariana Grande, the 20-year-old singer who toured with Bieber last year, previously spoke to the radio station MIX 104.1 about people being too harsh when joking about the singer's legal troubles.
"I think it's really serious. I've seen tweets of people making fun of the mug shot and all this stuff, and it's so ignorant," she said. "It's gotten to a point where I just want him to be okay. It's this very serious thing. And it's not just like a kid who's, you know, screwing around. It's dangerous. It's very serious and upsetting."
