Cody Simpson has at last ‘fessed up about the glass marijuana pipe that was seen in the Snapchat video he posted over the weekend, when he spent time with pals Justin Bieber and One Direction’s Niall Horan in Los Angeles.
As well as confirming that the pipe was used to smoke marijuana, Simpson also said the Biebs texted him after his inadvertent reveal and jokingly told him, “You’re a f****** idiot.”
The video led to sensationalist reporting from the UK’s notorious The Sun tabloid, which alleged the pop stars might have been smoking crystal meth, despite neither Niall, Cody, or Justin having any link to or history with the drug whatsoever.
Cody, 18, has now cleared up the brouhaha during a radio interview with the Zach Sang & The Gang show this week.
The Australian musician admitted the yellow pipe was a marijuana pipe but firmly denied any crystal meth use during the boys’ hangout on Sunday, (July 19).
In Cody’s Snapchat video, he is was seen strumming a guitar while Justin, 21, ad-libbed to their 2014 duet “Home to Mama.” Niall, also 21, perched at one end of a sofa nodding his head to the music, while another pal also played a guitar.
Simpson told the show’s hosts he didn’t realize the glass pipe was in shot when he filmed their music session. Other items seen on the table included a bottle of water, a CD cover, remote controls, and what appeared to be small weed nuggets.
Referring to Justin and Niall getting caught up in the media’s inevitably overwrought take on Cody’s accidental pot pipe reveal, the surfer enthusiast said, “If I had known [the pipe was visible] when I put it up [the video] I probably wouldn’t have put it up, just for the sake of not knowing the other people in the Snapchat situation with that stuff.”
Cody explained, “Some people are less, like, you know, open about things… For me, stuff like that, I don’t really mind.”
He went on, “If, like, you know, if I’m 18 and… I want to, like, have a little smoke… do your thing… it’s just part of, like, being young… it’s life,” he concluded.
Asked about Bieber and Horan’s reaction to the weed pipe storm, the Down Under singer said, “Bieber texted me, ‘You’re a f***ing idiot .’”
“I was like, ‘Dude, I swear I didn’t know!’” Simpson recalled, before adding that Bieber was “kind of joking” and “doesn’t really care about that stuff really that much either.”
“Dude, someone said it was a crystal meth pipe,” Cody exclaimed , when asked about what some reports claimed about the video, before joking that if he was really taking those kind of drugs, “You think I’d be here?”
In addition to Simpson’s clarification shutting down ridiculous crystal meth speculation, it is worth noting that none of the pop stars were seen taking drugs in the Snapchat video.
NIALL,JUSTIN AND CODY SIMPSON SNAPCHAT SINGING “HOME TO MAMA” pic.twitter.com/SdqIZkApzG
— HARRY STYLES (@thestylesfandom) July 20, 2015
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