Pop star Justin Bieber took a lot of shit from people last week after he visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and signed the guestbook with a note about how he hoped the teenage Holocaust victim would have been a “Belieber”. While people took offense to the comment, calling the 19-year old and his fans ignorant and misguided, there are at least two celebrities who are defending Bieber.
First, Joan Rivers told TMZ that she thinks his comment just “came out wrong”, and she would know because she makes jokes about the Holocaust. But fellow pop star will.i.am had a much more rational take on the story than “He probably could have worded it better”.
“The dude was in freaking Amsterdam. He could get sex because it’s legal, he could get drugs because it’s legal, and now we are making a hoopla because he said, ‘I wonder if Anne Frank was a Belieber?’
“He went to a museum! If you go to Amsterdam you are going to see some crazy freaking s**t… there is a lot of s**t to do in Amsterdam but he chose to go to Anne Frank’s house. The guy is all right.” (WENN.com)
He’s right. We should just be happy that Bieber didn’t go to Amsterdam and jam a syringe full of heroin into his eyeball while he paid some women at sex dungeon to choke him until he couldn’t feel his heartbeat and a couple guys in hoods tossed his lifeless body into the Amstel. I guess.
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