‘s rep shut down rumors that the singer has been using hard drugs due to his appearance during several recent outings.

A rep for Justin, 30, told TMZ that the drug use rumors were “absolutely not true” and that the speculation was “exhausting and pitiful,” on Sunday, February 23.

The rep noted that the past year has been “very transformative for him as he ended several close friendships and business relationships that no longer served him.”

Fans became concerned for Justin’s well-being after he was photographed with dark circles under his eyes in several outings, including one where he wore a bathrobe.

The rep said the “Holy” singer’s tired appearance was from an all-night recording session, as well as caring for his six-month-old son, Jack Blues Bieber, whom he shares with wife , explaining the infant had been having sleeping issues.

The outlet was told that Justin is in one of the “best places” in his life, as he’s “actively parenting” baby Jack and working on new music.

Justin opened up about the dark times in his life with drug use before getting sober in his 2020 docuseries, Seasons.

The Canada native said he began smoking marijuana when he was “12 or 13” to cope with the stress of becoming a megastar. It then led to “doing pretty heavy drugs.”

“There was a time when I was sipping lean, I was popping pills, I was doing molly (MDMA), shrooms, everything,” Justin explained. “It was just an escape for me. I was just young, like everybody in the industry and people in the world who experiment and who do normal, growing up things. But my experience was in front of cameras and I had a different level of exposure.”

Hailey, 28, revealed, “Justin and I were really never in each other’s lives until he chose to get sober and was trying to come off the drugs, almost kind of himself.”

Things got so dire that his “security and stuff would come into my room at night to check my pulse,” he recalled. “People don’t know how serious it got. It was legit crazy scary. I was waking up in the morning and the first thing I was doing was popping pills and smoking a blunt and starting my day. It just got scary.”

Justin continued, “I basically said to myself, ‘God if you’re real, you get me through this season of stopping these pills and stuff and if you do, I’ll do the rest of the work.’ And then I did that and I was good from there, but I never did the actual work. I got off the pills, but I never went to the root of everything. So then I kind of circled back around, which most people do.”

The singer has been sober since 2014, although he occasionally drinks socially.

Hailey has never used drugs or alcohol after watching her father, , deal with addiction. The model said during a November 2021 appearance on the “VS Voices” podcast that as a result, she’s been able to help support Justin when it comes to his sobriety.

“I think even just the open dialogue of, ‘Hey, where are you at with this?’ Being able to be honest,” she said. “I’ve had times where I would get nervous, like, [asking Justin], ‘Are you OK to do this? Because you did have a time in your life where it was not OK for you and it was like, a dark time for you. But he has very, very good self-awareness when it comes to that and is very open about it and I think that is all I can really ask for.”