Judge Judy doesn’t exactly scream “warmth, light and sunshine” but I’ve never thought of her as a scary monster. Justin Bieber, on the other hand, was apparently terrified of her!

Back in the day when Judy and Justin were neighbours he was so worried of bumping into her that he would have his security monitor when she was home or out so the two wouldn’t have to interact.

“He’s scared to death of me” Judge Judy said to Access Hollywood reporter Jason Kennedy. “It was a period of time before he grew up, when he was foolish, and doing foolish things,” she continued. “So I must have said something bout it, and then I understood that he was paying the front door people to let them know when I was there, coming and going, so he wouldn’t have to bump into me.”

Crazy.