Justin Bieber wants to put all the baby-daddy drama to rest with a simple test.
The pop music dreamboy had a wild start to his night Friday — a pop-in at a New Jersey lab to provide a DNA sample under “very controlled circumstances,” TMZ.com reported.
The 17-year-old Canadian crooner has vowed to his fans — known as Beliebers — that science will prove he’s not the pop of a boy born last July to a woman named Mariah Yeater, who claims the hearthrob knocked her up during a Staples Center quickie.
Yeater, 20, an unemployed single mom living in San Diego, filed a paternity lawsuit against Bieber on Halloween, but quietly withdrew it two weeks ago as she started receiving death threats, her Chicago-based lawyer, Jeffery Leving, told the Daily News.
Leving said he was trying to have a DNA test done on a confidential basis, but it was not clear whether the lawyer had any say in Bieber’s choice of lab.
“I originally wanted a judge to order a DNA test to make sure the test's chain of custody was safeguarded,” Leving said last week.
“But the reality is that that was before these death threats escalated. And they've gotten so out of control, maintaining strict confidentiality is something we have to try.”
He reserved the right to re-file the case if the two sides can’t broker a mutually acceptable test.
“Arrangements were made for Justin to take the test,” a Bieber source told The News, declining to comment about possible talks with Yeater’s legal team.
Bieber’s lawyer, Howard Weitzman, told TMZ that incriminating text messages purportedly sent by Yeater to a friend help prove she made up the baby-daddy story to get a payday.
The texts, obtained by TMZ, indicate that Yeater thought another man was the father of her baby immediately after the child was born.
“Pleeease ERASE ALL MESSAGES from my mom where she says (the baby) is Robbies Son. Ill kick u when we get paid i'm trusting you pleeease," read one recent text.
An Aug. 16 text to the same friend also identified “Robbie” as the father, TMZ also reported.
“Would you please stress to Robbie how important it is for him to be in his son’s life?” the text read, according to TMZ.
“As we've said from the beginning, it's sad that someone would fabricate such a malicious, defamatory and demonstrably false claim,” Bieber's spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, said in a statement to The News.
“We'll continue to consider all of our options to protect Justin.”
Bieber didn't seem to be worried about the outcome of his paternity test as he glammed it up at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles Sunday night.
He strutted along the red carpet, with his hair slicked-back and wearing a velvet tuxedo, and stopped to peck girlfriend Selena Gomez on the cheek.
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