“It was definitely the scariest thing I’ve ever gone through,” Hailey explained. “Even the first couple of times coming back [to Palm Springs] after was a little bit of a strange triggering kind of feeling for me because you just remember exactly how everything happened in that moment. But I think the bright side for me was that it led me to find out I had this hole in my heart.”
“I struggled with a lot of anxiety after,” she added. “I struggled with a little bit of PTSD [Post Traumatic Stress Disorder] of just like the fear of maybe it was gonna happen again. And it was just a feeling that I was, like, I never want to experience that ever again. I mean, it was so terrifying, so jarring, so discombobulating in every single way that you could imagine.”
Bieber admitted even months after she went through it, it was still “really hard to talk about.”
