Justin Bieber likened himself to Princess Diana after being rear-ended by a paparazzo in West Hollywood on Tuesday.
Bieber was driving in his red Ferrari Tuesday afternoon when a photographer began to follow him, apparently driving erratically. When Bieber hit the breaks, the photographer crashed into him.
Luckily, no one was hurt, but Bieber was clearly upset by the incident, taking to Twitter to vent his frustration. Bieber wrote, “There should be laws against what I just experienced. We should have learned from the death of Princess Diana.”
Princess Diana died in a car accident in 1997 when the car she was riding in crashed in a Paris tunnel. The crash is believed to have been caused, in part, by relentless paparazzi who were chasing her car at the time of her death.
While the comparison may not have been wise, Bieber is not the first celebrity to speak up about the unsafe conditions paparazzi cultivate. In 2011, Tori Spelling and her children, Liam and Stella, were involved in a car accident, which the actress claimed occurred due to frenzied paparazzi. Recently, stars including Kristen Bell and her husband Dax Shepard have been lobbying for more regulations regarding paparazzi, specifically the publication of images of children.
This isn’t Bieber’s first altercation with the paparazzi. In 2013, a paparazzo was killed crossing the street as he tried to get a photo of Bieber, and in June a paparazzo filed a law suit against Bieber, alleging he was the victim of a hit-and-run.
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