Ellen DeGeneres has interviewed hundreds of celebrities, but how she gets the dirt on Hollywood’s biggest stars is often questioned. Such was the case when she brought up Justin Bieber’s nude paparazzi photograph taken in 2015. In a clip from “The Ellen Show,” she grilled the popstar about a photo featuring him baring it all outside his Bora Bora bungalow.
The talk show host seemed to make fun of him and asked Bieber how he didn’t notice the photographers, to which he replied, “I just didn’t see them, I don’t think I was really looking out for them either.” DeGeneres went even further, asking, “When you think back on it now do you see where [the papparazzi] might have been?”
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Bieber shared that his manager Scooter Braun broke the uncomfortable news. “It was like a couple days later, Scooter hit me up and was like, ‘Yo, I hate to tell you this but your penis is on the internet.'” Bieber took the awkward line of questioning in stride, joking that seeing the uncensored version of the photo “wasn’t as bad as I thought it was gonna be.”
DeGeneres proceeded to ask about a woman in the background of the photograph seen in the bungalow, but Bieber admitted she was not his girlfriend. “You just brought a friend to Bora Bora and you’re just naked with your friend?” Degeneres pressed. While the “Believe” singer made it through the interview, it’s not every day a pop star has to reference their own privates in the process.
