Baby drama: Selena Gomez touched on Justin Bieber's paternity battle during an interview with Ellen DeGeneres today
In an appearance on today’s edition of US chat programme, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the 19-year-old briefly touched on claims that the singer fathered a child with fan Mariah Yeater.
Ellen asked Gomez: ‘You’ve been all right?’
To which the Wizards of Waverly Place star replied: ‘I have been, yeah,’ adding the situation ‘it’s not easy’ to deal with but she is okay.
DeGeneres, referring to reports that the lawsuit had been dropped, then continued: ‘Everything’s all good now. You knew that all along but it’s nice to have everything out in the open now.’
Selena replied: ‘Yeah, it’s good to just kind of be good.’
'Unfortunate': Justin Bieber also addressed the issue during a radio interview in New York today
On a lighter note, when the host asked the star if she could tell Justin to pull his baggy trousers up, she joked that she’s already told him to but he ‘just laughs’.
Bieber, 17, also discussed the issue during a radio interview on the Elvis Duran morning show in New York today.
He said: ‘As far as the whole baby situation, it’s unfortunate that it had to happen like that, that people make false accusations. but things happen in this industry and you just have to keep your head high and be positive and that’s all I really have to say.’
He also made light of the story, saying he found it rather boring.
‘If it was up to me, it would have been a better story, like, “Justin Bieber went off to South America with this 27-year-old supermodel.” That would have been an awesome one.’
Meanwhile, Yeater is said to have tried to cover up text messages claiming another man was the dad, according to reports.
Yeater is said to have asked a friend yesterday to delete an incriminating message.
In a number of phone texts leaked to TMZ.com, Mariah wrote to a friend: ‘ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mum where she says Tristyn is [ex-boyfriend] Robbies Son.’
She then says in the message that if her pal helps in the cover-up, he’ll get a cut of the money ‘when we get paid’.
Justin has maintained from the beginning that he never met Mariah, and was willing to take a paternity test.
Shock claim: Mariah Yeater with her son Tristyn during an interview on The Insider earlier this month
Bieber’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, told US website Gossip Cop in a statement: ‘This information proves Mariah Yeater fabricated the story.
Our independent investigation indicates Ms. Yeater never meet Justin, she has consistently identified another man as the child’s father, and Ms. Yeater and her co-conspirators hatched this scheme in order to extort money from him and to sell her story to the media.’
Yeater is thought to be continuing a claim against the Canadian singer out of court.
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