A Colombian flight attendant recently discussed how Justin Bieber led her to save her faith in Jesus. In a recent episode of “The Becket Cook Show,” Victoria Mandylor shared her upbringing leading up to her conversion, reported by CBN News.

She said of Bieber, “Yeah, he planted a seed. He was another person that was put in my life to put the last seed in and water it.” Mandylor grew up Catholic but discussed how her faith wavered when her uncle sexually abused her at 12. She explained, “He groomed me from the time I arrived in the United States until I was 17, and then he raped me. It went on for many years, and he mentioned God to do what he was doing because he knew that I believed in God.”

Mandylor also said her uncle would follow her to school and told her that his actions were based on his love for her. She said, “It was quite awful because I knew how wrong it was, but then he was also very clever at convincing me it was love, that love is good, that ‘God is love,’ and that he loved me more than his own daughters. It was an awful time in my life.”

Mandylor ultimately pressed charges against her uncle, who is now in jail, but she didn’t have faith in God and turned to New Age practices, including yoga and meditation, to deal with her pain. However, her experience with the New Age opened the door to demonic encounters. She said, “I got really, really into this stuff, but at the same time, I was having this horrible sleep paralysis where I was falling asleep and either coming out of my body or I was seeing entities coming into the room trying to take me, and I couldn’t move.”

She continued, “I couldn’t talk. I would try screaming, and no voice would come out of me. All my limbs were completely frozen, and I just couldn’t do anything. But at the time, I was already curious about Jesus, and I had a Bible. When this entity that looked like an alien was coming to get me, I just closed my eyes and I said, ‘Jesus. In the name of Jesus, please get rid of the entity. Take it away from me, please.’ And it just disappeared.”

Mandylor told Beckett that her road to faith in Christ started with an encounter with Bieber while she worked as a stewardess on the singer’s private jet. “He gets on board, and the first thing he says to me is… ‘Do you believe in Jesus Christ?’ I just looked at him, and I said, ‘Excuse me?’ and he said, ‘Do you believe in Jesus Christ? Do you believe He is the Son of God that was crucified and died for your sins? And do you know that you are forgiven?’ And I was like, ‘I am very spiritual, and I do a lot of meditating and stuff, and maybe He existed,'” she recalled.

The singer also asked if she listened to Christian worship music and shared a few songs with her. At first, Mandylor did not listen to the songs. Still, she found a YouTube video titled “From Yoga to Christianity,” which included the testimony of an ex-new Yoga instructor who also struggled with sleep paralysis.

Mandylor’s life would ultimately be changed after her ex-gay Christian friend invited her to attend Reality Church of Los Angeles with him. She shared that she had felt the Holy Spirit during the church service and gave her life to Christ. Less than a year later, Mandylor met Bieber again on another flight she was working on and told him about her conversion. In response, Bieber celebrated the moment and prayed with Mandylor.

Mandylor also refuted claims that her conversion came from Bieber’s influence but rather his explanation of the Gospel.