Since Justin Bieber has been a massive part of the music industry since he was a pre-teen, it’s a lot of fun to watch his old interviews. He often sounded sweet and innocent when talking about how excited he was that his career was getting off the ground. He also sometimes chatted about the celebrities that he was a fan of since he has always been passionate about music.
When Bieber was a teenager, he appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show quite often. While some stars didn’t like being interviewed by DeGeneres, Bieber and DeGeneres always had easy and friendly banter. Once, Justin Bieber told a story about Rihanna that viewers were fascinated by. Here’s what fans should know about the relationship between the two singers.
Did Justin Bieber Ask Rihanna Out On A Date?
According to Clevver News, when Justin Bieber was very young, Bieber was interviewed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show for the first time and he talked about how much he liked Rihanna. DeGeneres remarked that he seemed to have lots of “confidence.” That definitely comes across in this clip.
When DeGeneres asked “Did you ask Rihanna out? Is that true?” he smiled and nodded before replying, “It did happen.”
According to Digital Spy, Bieber shared more details of this story with Chelsea Handler. He said that the two singers had front-row tickets to a Los Angeles NBA All-Star game and that’s when he decided to take the opportunity to see if she would date him. Bieber said, “Yeah, I asked her out. It didn’t go so well since I’m not with her. I asked her out and she was basically like, ‘You’re too young.'”
Since Bieber was 15 at the time and Rihanna was 23, it of course makes sense that she said no.
Bieber seemed to take the experience in stride. In December 2015, he posted a photo of himself and Rihanna on his Instagram account and wrote in the caption, “Can I have your number please” -Justin “Nah” -Rihanna.”
What Is Justin Bieber And Rihanna’s Relationship Like?
Justin Bieber definitely had a big crush on Rihanna at the time of his interviews with Ellen DeGeneres and Chelsea Handler. When the singer was younger, he often shared who he had a crush on. According to Us Weekly, he posted on Instagram about Ashley Moore in 2015 and wrote “WCM.” In 2014, he called Danielle Knudson “stunning.”
After Bieber’s fans learned that he was crushing on Rihanna and even asked her out on a date, people wondered what their relationship was like. Bieber asked Rihanna if she would go on a date with him in 2011. As it turns out, this was during his relationship with Selena Gomez.
According to People, the stars seem to have officially begun dating in 2010. In the next two years, rumors began flying around that Rihanna and Justin Bieber were dating.
Life&Style Mag said that the singers had been romantically involved. Someone who was pals with Bieber and Gomez alleged that Gomez was “devastated” to learn about this. This was supposedly why Gomez and Bieber split up at this time. A little while later, according to Page Six, someone explained to Gossip Cop that this never happened.
In February 2013, Hollywood Life reported that people thought that Bieber and Rihanna were together at the home that she lived in at the time, Hotel Giraffe, and the Beverly Hills Four Seasons. The singers never confirmed that they were together.
As a source told Hollywood Life, Rihanna and Justin Bieber have been “friends.”
While Justin Bieber seemed to shrug off the fact that Rihanna said no to him back in the day, his wife Hailey Bieber can also laugh about his crush now. According to Harper’s Bazaar, on Super Bowl Sunday in February 2023, Hailey shared a photo of Bieber and Rihanna at a game together in 2011. She wrote, “Todays energy of course.” Fans loved seeing this since Bieber was staring at Rihanna. It was clear that he had a huge crush on her.
Rihanna must have been aware of how Justin Bieber felt about her. In 2011, The Mirror reported that Rihanna tweeted a photo of herself staring at a Bieber poster and kissing it. That seemed to be a reaction to all the press surrounding his crush on her.
Did Rihanna And Justin Bieber Ever Sing Together?
While it sounds like Justin Bieber really hoped that he and Rihanna would get the chance to work together, they haven’t collaborated or sung a duet.
In 2016, Bieber talked about Rihanna in an interview with Capital FM at V Festival, where he was performing. He said of chatting with the singer at an event, “We talked a little bit, I told her how much I liked her new song ‘Needed Me’. We haven’t done a song together, [we should] for sure.”
Even though the singers haven’t worked together, it turns out that Ed Sheeran wrote the song “Love Yourself” and thought that it would be great for Rihanna. As Justin Bieber’s fans know, the song ended up on “Purpose,” the album that he released in 2015.
According to NME.com, Sheeran was interviewed on The Howard Stern Show and explained that he decided that he would ask Bieber if he wanted the song for the album he was working on at the time. Sheeran said, “It kind of came at a zeitgeist time for his career, where he had fallen out of grace with the public, and he had this comeback song that was quite grown up.”
Sheeran also explained that if Rihanna had sung the tune, the chorus would have been changed to “you should go and f*** yourself” rather than “you should go and love yourself.”
