14 DAY TRIAL // Add another celebrity to the ever-expanding list of stars offering unsolicited advice to pop phenom Justin Bieber. Leif Garrett, who shot to fame in the ‘70s, has a strong warning for The Biebs: don’t believe your own publicity.
If you don’t know who Garrett is, that would probably serve to make his point even better: a young and promising singer and actor (above is his biggest hit ever), he only made headlines in more recent years for his drug problems and countless run-ins with the law, before fading away into obscurity.
“Do not believe your own publicity,” he says he’d tell Bieber if he ever came face to face with him.
“Sussing out who your real friends are is full-time work. Every scum bag, every drug dealer, every chicken hawk wants a piece of you,” he adds in an interview with Fox411.
“When you’ve got that sort of power at that young ageand everything at your doorstep, you put out that bad boy image. At that age, testosterone, hormones, all of the money, you see what else you can get away with,” he continues.