You probably read the recent story about Justin Bieber making a racist joke on a video tape. What you don’t know is what happened behind the scenes when the tape first surfaced in 2011!
A lot of media sources knew about it/heard it/saw the tape. And then…. Justin Bieber made a very weird appearance on TMZ Live in August of 2011. If you watch the interview, they all pretend that Justin just happened to bump into Harvey at a sushi restaurant and decided to make a spontaneous “pop in” appearance on the show.
Justin didn’t have a finished album or a U.S. tour to promote… and it is well known that he doesn’t like TMZ or Harvey Levin. So why on earth would he do this? Well, we now have the answer: He was forced to appear on the show in order to keep TMZ from releasing the tape!