How Justin Bieber Really Reacted to Selena Gomez’s Marriage — And Whether He Reached Out

Well, this escalated fast. Selena Gomez quietly marries Benny Blanco in Santa Barbara, and within days Justin Bieber gets papped leaving a massage spot in LA, then posts a basketball photo dump with a love-ballad soundtrack. The internet does what the internet does: spins it into a Jelena rerun. Here’s what actually went down, minus the melodrama but with all the context.

The sighting: Bieber, head down, no comment

On Tuesday in Los Angeles, Justin Bieber, 31, was photographed arriving solo at Voda Massage Spa, looking stone-faced and keeping his head down. This was his first time out in public since his ex, Selena Gomez, tied the knot with producer Benny Blanco over the weekend in Santa Barbara.

As he left, a paparazzo pressed him with the obvious question:

"Hey Justin, did you wish congratulations to Selena Gomez today?"

"Did you talk with her?"

Bieber kept his hands in his pockets, walked straight to his car, and didn’t say a word. Backgrid pushed out the clip on X on October 1, and predictably, his name started trending for all the wrong reasons.

Inside the wedding bubble

Gomez and Blanco’s ceremony was small and starry. Think Taylor Swift, Paris Hilton, and Only Murders in the Building legends Steve Martin and Martin Short. It was deliberately intimate, and she looked genuinely happy, which should be the headline, but again: internet.

The post that launched 1,000 comments

Hours after the wedding, Bieber put up a laid-back basketball series from League Court in Los Angeles. Harmless on its face. The curveball was the soundtrack he paired with it: a ballad off his 2025 album 'I Do'—a record that’s basically a love letter to his wife, Hailey. On any other day, it’s just a vibe. On this day, fans decided it was a message.

Comments lit up with the usual forensic reading of celebrity breadcrumbs. A couple of the top reactions summed up the mood: "Choice of song is wild" and "So you couldn’t think about another song?" The replies filled with Selena GIFs, theories, and general chaos. Inside baseball? Definitely. But this fandom treats track choices like subpoenaed evidence.

Selena’s cousin steps in, then steps back

As the nostalgia spiral gathered speed, Gomez’s cousin Priscilla DeLeon intervened under a Bieber selfie after a fan posted "She’s gone forever" (via The Mirror). Her response was blunt and, frankly, reasonable—before it was deleted:

"She’s finally in a place where peace matters more than the past. I just hope people stop dragging her name and let her live her life."

That comment only juiced the discourse across Reddit and Twitter, with plenty of people echoing the sentiment that the Jelena era ended years ago. The broader point from fans: imagine being in your 30s and still getting bombarded about someone you dated as a teenager.

Quick refresher, because the timeline matters

• Gomez and Bieber dated on and off for about eight years, breaking up for good in 2018.
• Gomez is now married to Benny Blanco after an intimate Santa Barbara ceremony with a few A-list guests.
• Bieber married Hailey Bieber and has been publicly devoted to her; the 'I Do' album arrived in 2025 as a love-forward project.
• His spa sighting in LA and silent exit came days after Gomez’s wedding, followed by that basketball post with the love-ballad audio.

So, is he bothered?

Maybe. Maybe not. Silence can read like a statement, but it can also be… silence. What’s undeniable is that the internet loves a messy throwback, even when the actual people involved have moved on with their lives. Gomez looks content. Bieber’s married and still playing pickup. The rest is noise.

Are fans still rooting for a love story that ended years ago, or just addicted to nostalgia and chaos? Your call.