Wednesday 28 September 2022 07:47 AM Hailey Bieber DENIES she 'stole' husband Justin from Selena Gomez trends now

Hailey Bieber has set the record straight regarding the timeline of her and Justin Bieber's relationship after years of fan-driven speculation that she 'stole' him from Selena Gomez.

During her appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, the model, 26, insisted to host Alexis Cooper that Justin, 25, had not cheated on Gomez, 30, with her.

'No, not once,' she stated, adding that she and Justin began 'hooking up' after he'd already split from his former on/off girlfriend in early 2018.

'When him and I started hooking up, or anything of that sort, he was not in any relationship, It's not my character to mess with someone's relationship, I was raised better than that,' Hailey stressed.

Justin and Hailey, who'd had a previous fling in 2016, rekindled their flame in mid-2018. They were engaged by July and tied the knot two months later.

'I understand how it looks from the outside, but that was a situation where I know for a fact that it was the right thing for [Justin and Selena] to close that door, but of course, there's a very long history there and I respect that a lot.

'I don't want to talk on either one of their behalf's,' she explained.

Being that Justin and Selena dated on/off for nearly a decade, fans of both artists felt emotionally invested in their highly-publicized 'Jelena' romance.

So, when they called it quits and he moved on with Hailey, she became the main target of online backlash and fan conspiracies. 

'A lot of the hate comes from like "oh you stole him" and the fact that he wished he ended up with someone else. And that's fine, you can wish that all you want, but it's not the case.'

'There's a certain numbness that you get,' she said of coming across hate comments and posts from 'Jelena' devotees.

'It still happens to this day, if I was to go live right now, it would still be happening. You reach a point where you have to ignore it,' she told Cooper.

'If we have moved on, why can't you?'

Earlier in the day, a snippet from Hailey's Call Her Daddy interview was teased online which touched on rumors that there was some crossover between her and Selena.

'This is so crazy I've literally never talked about this ever,' the model responded after Cooper remarked on how the public was 'obsessed' with the relationship between Justin and Selena.