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Martha Stewart Gets Flirty In Interview With Justin Bieber

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Martha Stewart and Justin Bieber at his Comedy Central Roast in March 2015 (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images)

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Just a few months ago, Justin Bieber was skewered on his Comedy Central Roast, where celebrities and comedians each took turns making him the butt of their jokes. Even Martha Stewart made an uncomfortable prison rape joke about the 21-year-old "Baby" singer at the event. So, perhaps this has only brought them closer, enough for Stewart to interview the Biebs in Interview magazine.Interview calls Stewart and Bieber's chat, "Bieber unplugged!" For the entirety of the interview, Stewart is cheery and awfully sweet to Bieber. She even gets flirty with him when she asks him if he brought a date to the most recent Met Ball. She says, "I was hoping that you would ask me to be your date." *cringe* She asks him if he remembers the place where they first met. He doesn't. *sound of heart breaking*

She really doesn't let up with the flattery. "You're 21 and, I would say, pretty sophisticated now," Stewart says. That's not exactly what we would call him, given all his run-ins with the law. But we wouldn't be shocked to find out Martha, a convicted felon herself, likes a bad boy.

We learned a couple new Bieber facts from the interview. He says he graduated high school with a 4.0 GPA. When he was a kid, he would busk on the street in Stratford, Ontario, playing guitar and singing. It was a rural Canadian town of only 30,000 people, but he made enough from tips to take his mother on a trip with him to Disney World in Florida. "I always wanted to go but we never had enough money," he tells Stewart.

But those days are long gone. He also talks about how riding private jets is his favorite mode of transportation. He also owns a boat and Ferrari, loves investing in tech companies, and will be vacationing in Ibiza soon. And oh, he's in the studio working with the likes of Skrillex, Diplo, Kanye West and Rick Rubin.

You can read the entire interview here.

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