CEBU, Philippines - Selena Gomez has denied that she has dumped Justin Bieber in light of allegations he fathered a fan’s four-month-old child.
Mariah Yeater, 20, claims in court filings that the star father her son Tristyn during a 30-second sex session in a bathroom backstage after one of his shows.
The 19-year-old Disney star’s representation has confirmed to that rumors that the pair split are false.
It was reported earlier today that Selena had called it quits with her boyfriend of eight months. ‘Selena ended it abruptly. She broke the news to Justin just in the past 24 hour,’ a source told website Radaronline.com .
It was also reported that Justin allegedly vowed to Selena that the accusations were categorically not true. “Justin has insisted to Selena that the woman’s allegations are simply not true,” the source added.
The source said that Bieber’s representatives also reportedly tried to convince Selena to stand by her man.
“His camp is in damage control mode and attempting to convince her to stick around in the relationship for a few more weeks, because they fear it will be seen as an admission that something indeed took place between Justin and the woman who is alleging that he’s the father of her baby,” the source said.
Selena’s denial of the split comes as Bieber spoke out about the allegations today.
The star went on The Today Show yesterday morning to insist that there is no truth in the fan’s claims. ‘I’d just like to say basically that none of those allegations are true,” he said.
“I know that I’m gonna be a target - but I’m never gonna be a victim. I think that it’s just crazy because every night I’ve gone right from the stage to my car. It’s crazy that some people want to make up false allegations. But to set the record straight - none of this is true.”
Asked if he knew Yeater, he insisted ‘Never met the woman.’
And when asked that such claims are ‘what comes along with last in the fast lane,’ Bieber said: “Exactly.”
Meanwhile, it just emerged that Yeater almost gave up the baby boy for adoption before instead going public with her Bieber bombshell.
She never told her family who the father of her unborn child was - and had planned to give him up for adoption. But now instead, she now wants to force Bieber to take a DNA test and pay up to $260,000 in monthly child support.
The New York Post also reported today that Yeater was busted in Las Vegas less than two months after getting pregnant. Records state that on December 21, 2010, Yeater committed battery by ‘slapping’ a man in the face and later pleaded not guilty.
On June 16, Yeater’s lawyer asked for a continuance, noting she lived out of state and was “under doctor’s orders not to travel due to high-risk pregnancy.”
Justin and Selena have been dating since the end of last year, but the couple waited until the Oscars in March to make their first public debut together.
Last month the couple were both in Winnipeg and spent an amorous evening watching the basketball together. They were seen smooching from a private box.