Washington, March 17 -- Pop star Justin Bieber posted a long post in which he admitted that he felt like he was "drowning" and that he must strive to "let hate go."

"I was always told when I was a kid not to hate," he wrote, adding, "But it made me feel like I wasn't allowed to have it, and so I didn't tell anyone I've had it," he continued, referring to hate, reported People.

Bieber then said that hiding the hate made him feel like "I have been drowning feeling unsafe to acknowledge it"

"I think we can only let hate go by first acknowledging it there," he wrote, adding, "How couldn't we feel hate from all of the hurt we have experienced," he concluded his cryptic post.

Last week the singer also used his Instagram Stories to open up a...