Leif Garrett has a message for Justin Bieber: Don't buy into your own hype.
Oh, and that Bieber is apparently a much-sought after commodity among men interested in sweet young boy-meat.
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Former teen idol Garrett, who spiraled into a personal hell of substance abuse after charming teenage girls throughout the '70s, offered his advice to Bieber via Fox 411, cautioning the 19-year-old singer, "every chicken hawk wants a piece of you."
Asked what he would tell Bieber — who has made headlines lately for antics such as urinating in a restaurant mop bucket — Garrett responded, "Do not believe your own publicity. Sussing out who your real friends are is full-time work. Every scum bag, every drug dealer, every chicken hawk wants a piece of you."
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While Garrett admitted that the circumstances between his own early fame and that of Bieber's, the former "Tiger Beat" fixture said that he could see how Bieber could go astray through an unfortunate excess of spare cash and raging hormones.
"When you’ve got that sort of power at that young age, and everything at your doorstep, you put out that bad boy image," Garrett offered. "At that age, testosterone, hormones, all of the money, you see what else you can get away with."