I Won a Meet & Greet with Justin Bieber in Scotland! Dreams Do Come True

My Bieber Experience!
From Holly @cuddlemejustin, the girl who won a meet & greet with Justin in Scotland.

So before I begin to tell you all about meeting Justin and my experience, I have a few things to say which I feel are important.

Okay, so I’m Holly and I’m a Scottish Belieber. Justin hasn’t toured here and the only time he’s been here was in 2010 when he performed at the school of a competition winner, since then he hasn’t been back. Due to this I knew my only chance of ever seeing Justin was if I travelled, so my mum worked extra hard and saved up in order to make it possible. March 12th 2011 – My World Tour, I travelled to Newcastle, stayed in a hotel and I seen Justin perform live, it couldn’t have been any better. June 9th 2012 – Summertime Ball, I travelled to London and it was the most amazing weekend ever also. Let me tell you, I’m so grateful to have even seen Justin perform live in front of my very own eyes, but all I’ve ever wanted was to meet him! I’m far from positive and never believed I would ever meet Justin. Yes, I tried to be hopeful but I kept doubting myself, and seeing photos of Justin with other fans made me happy but at the same time I wondered whether I would ever get my own photo with Justin.. Everyone on Twitter would tell me to Never Say Never, to Believe, and to not give up but believe me when I say it was hard, cause it was. Some of my friends would tell me I would never meet him, who was I to believe? I believed that they were right and that my dream of meeting Justin was always going to be a dream, I was proven wrong.

It’s probably best if I tell you how I even got to meet Justin… So, I’ve entered so many Bieber related competitions and I’ve never been lucky, at times I even wondered what point was there of even entering them if I wasn’t going to feel nothing but disappointment when I didn’t win. When I had found out about the Clyde 1 In Demand Scotland Contest I thought I would give it a try, even though I was positive I wouldn’t get anywhere. So I did as the competition said, I liked the picture of Justin they uploaded on their Facebook page and I waited, when the next day came I was picked as the first finalist! What?! Was this really happening to me? I couldn’t believe it, as the week went on two more finalists were picked, then on the final a 4th one was picked. We had to answer a question: “How many copies of Justin Bieber’s album Believe were sold in the UK?” I had no clue whatsoever, I took a guess and I got the closest answer. I WON. I WAS MEETING MY IDOL AFTER 3 WHOLE YEARS OF WAITING. I felt so lucky, so blessed and I was so grateful.

So I travelled to London on the 12th of September, that day on Twitter so many people had met Justin at his hotel, I couldn’t believe the day after that I was meeting Justin. I didn’t even know where I was meeting him, it was all kept very secretive. On the morning of the 13th I woke up feeling so sick with nerves, as I did every morning in the run up to the big day! In order to pass time my mum and I just chilled outside Justin’s hotel with all the Beliebers and I met so many amazing people that I hope I stay in contact with! I met Dan Kanter at Pret A Manger in Oxford Street and he was so sweet, and that made me even more nervous about meeting Justin, it was getting closer and closer. We were told to meet someone at Oxford Circus but then we were told just to go back to Justin’s hotel where someone would come out and get us! After waiting for what seemed like forever in the cold we got a phonecall telling us to walk into the hotel, so we did. I think loads of the Beliebers were probably like “what the hell is that girl doing?!” but others were shouting “GO HOLLY” I was smiling so much. I was taken up to the floor Justin was staying on and on the way up I met Kenny and I said Hi and he said hi back. The radio interviews were running late so me and my mum had to sit out at the lifts and wait, the lift door opened and out walked Moshe, I said Hello to him and he said it back and asked how I was and then went off to Justin’s room. When he came back he asked if I was the competition winner and I replied yes, my mum said to him how Justin must be tired with all the interviews and the busy schedule and Moshe smiled and said “its all part of the job” he was genuinely so sweet! We were then taken to stand outside Justin’s room, I could hear him being interviewed, at one point he even sang a line of As Long As You Love Me, I was dying, I was so nervous and my chest and neck was getting all red with my nerves! When the interview finished the door opened and it was my time, my time to meet Justin, I could not believe it! I walked into his hotel room and a photographer was taking pictures of Justin, OMG he was so flawless, he didn’t even look real, this may seem weird but he was like a wax work figure he was just that perfect!! While he was getting some quick photos Kenny shook my hand and spoke to me about Scotland and how his name was Scottish. Justin began to walk over, smiling so big and when he looked into my eyes omg, I was so nervous but I was melting. He said hey and took me into his arms. IT WAS THE BEST HUG EVER. My arms were wrapped around him and his arms were wrapped around me, it was so perfect! It was a long hug and we were squeezing each other tight, I so didn’t want to let go of him ever!! I told him how I couldn’t believe this was finally happening! We then got photos taken, he looked at me smiling and said “I’ve got my One Time hoody on today” and he seemed so happy about it because he knows how much the hoody means to both him and us Beliebers, I replied telling him how I had a hoody just like that! We got photos took by the photographer and I had my arms wrapped around his waist and he was holding me, and his face was like touching mine, his smile was just to die for and we hugged again. Then he asked if I had a camera so we could get more photos, so my mum took the photo and then took another one for luck. His voice was heavenly, I never thought I’d be speaking to the boy that inspires me so much. He asked me if I wanted him to sign anything so he signed my Bieber experience photo album, he wrote “Holly ♥ Believe Justin Bieber ☺” and he made sure it was the correct spelling of my name and he took his time to make it perfect!! I told him how I was going to the Believe Tour and my mum told him about all the Scottish Beliebers sending their love and that it would be good if he came here one day! He gave me another big hug and went over to my mum and said “mom give me a hug?” She was only expecting a hand shake but she got a hug, she was starstruck tbh  I said thank you to Justin, and to who organised it too! I was so grateful and it was the best 5/10 minutes of my life! Justin’s smile was just so real and warm and when I hugged him I felt so safe and he just felt so good!! When I walked out the hotel room I got all emotional, it was so overwhelming and I was in so much shock. We had missed the train we were originally getting so we had to get a later one, but it was SO worth it!! I’ll carry the memory of meeting Justin with me in my head and heart throughout the rest of my life! I’m so grateful to have had an opportunity like that and I’ll never take it for granted.

I hope you enjoyed reading My Bieber Experience, sorry if I bored you and thanks if you enjoyed it!! Since I won the competition I’ve learned to Believe. To all you Beliebers who think you’ll never meet Justin trust me, you WILL. Anything is possible if you just believe. Dreams DO come true, mines did and yours will too, NEVER SAY NEVER