TL;DR – One less lonely girl.

For the rest of you who are not part of the 77.8m strong belieber army, it’s time to know that…

Justin Bieber has deleted his Instagram account!

Yup, if you head over to @justinbieber, you will see this:

Here’s the quick low-down,

Bieber posts photos of him with new flame Sofia Richie (if you think that this last name sounds familiar, it’s cause she’s the sister of Nicole Richie.

Yes, the same Nicole Richie from The Simple Life.)

Fans go crazy and ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez decided to join in,

“If you can’t handle the hate then stop posting pictures of your girlfriend lol -it should be special between you two only. Don’t be mad at your fans. They love you. They were there for you before anyone,” she wrote.

She then proceeded to accuse Bieber of cheating on her multiple times during the years they were on-and-off dating.

And well, he accused her of using him for publicity.

Bieber then threatened to private his account if they continued with the hate comments,

Moments later, he deleted his account – not before changing his mind and making his page public and finally deleting it altogether.

In the meanwhile,

The new couple has been jetting overseas for his Purpose world tour in Chiba, Japan…

And shopping.

Gomez has since apologised, well sorta, with a contrite message on Snapchat:

But well, in the wise words of Bieber himself,

Is it too late now to say sorry?

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