Justin Bieber opened up about his love/hate relationship with social media and, in particular, with Instagram in an-onstage speech in London this week, saying that he is “90% sure” that the service is “for the devil” and that it is “hell”.

The 22 year old Canadian megastar, of course, left Instagram suddenly back in August this year during a gap in his current Purpose world tour. At a huge gig in London’s O2 Arena on Tuesday evening (November 29th), the Biebs vented about the picture-posting application between songs.

Justin BieberJustin Bieber told his fans that he reckons Instagram is "hell"

Giving some of his rapacious Beliebers the hope that he might return to the site, he asked: “Who thinks I should get my Instagram back?” The moment had been captured by a fan video.

“Nah, I don't want to get my Instagram back… I'm sure… I think hell is Instagram. I'm 90% sure. We get sent to hell, we get like locked in the Instagram server. Like I’m stuck in the DMs.”

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Bieber, who has been increasingly withdrawing from his approachable public personality over the course of the last year while touring his current album, quit Instagram over three months ago when he deleted his account after having posted a series of photos urging his fans to “stop the hate”.

At first, he had threatened to make his account private after Beliebers had bombarded him with negative comments about his then-girlfriend Sofia Richie.

“This is getting out of hand, if you guys are really fans you wouldn’t be so mean to people that I like,” he had written shortly before his account went dark. Meanwhile, his Twitter account is still very much active.

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