The relationship between Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco goes way back. In fact, the two famously met in 2009, a year before Bieber began dating Selena Gomez, and collaborated on many songs together throughout the time Bieber and Gomez were dating and even after the two broke up. That, of course,e means, that one of the things people were most interested in knowing when the news that Blanco and Gomez were dating broke was how Justin Bieber felt about it.
It didn’t matter that Justin Bieber had moved on from Gomez and was in a happy relationship with Hailey Beiber. It didn’t matter that Gomez and Bieber broke up for good in 2018, after being on and off for years. The Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez of it all had people interested for years and that has always included who they dated before and after. Someone who was in Justin Bieber’s orbit and then went on to date Selena Gomez, like Benny Blanco, is of course going to be interesting to fans of the once-couple.
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Here’s the Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco relationship timeline
But Blanco and Bieber were, arguably, closer than a normal pair of friends—and that relationship seems to now be nonexistent. What happened with Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco? Did their friendship end just because of Selena Gomez? Here’s everything we know.
Justin Bieber and Benny Blanco were very close friends for many years. It wasn’t just a professional relationship, the two spoke highly of each other, with Blanco even saying in an interview with Zach Sang that, at the time, fans interpreted as a dig against Selena Gomez, “Justin’s not one of those cookie-cutter pop artists. He’s always been upfront about his struggles, and that’s what makes him special.”
