Justin Bieber turned to religion as race controversy loomed
Embattled pop star Justin Bieber turned to religion and was baptised in a bathtub as controversy loomed over his use of racist slurs, according to a report.
Pastor Carl Lentz tells editors at TMZ.com he spent a week working with the Baby hitmaker on intensive Bible study sessions after the star's aides were approached earlier this year (14) by a man in possession of two videos showing the singer using the N-word.
According to the website, the sessions focused on studying Bible
passages and attending services, and came to a climax with a
baptism in one of Bieber's friend's bathtubs after attempts to find
a church for the ritual risked exposing the singer's privacy.
The troubled hitmaker issued a number of apologies after the
emergence of two videos last week (ends08Jun14), made when he was a
teenager, in which he uses derogatory terms.
One involves the singer telling a joke using the N-word, and the
second shows him replacing the words of his hit One Less Lonely
Girl with the N-word and joking about joining race-hate group the
Ku Klux Klan.