Then, in 2015, the guilt flipped, with Bieber pleading guilty to assault and careless driving charges in connection with a collision and altercation with a photographer near his Canadian hometown of Stratford, Ontario. According to reports from the time, Bieber and Selena Gomez were together when they were “disrupted by the unwelcome presence of paparazzi,” leading to a collision between a minivan and an all-terrain vehicle and then a “physical altercation”.