Police raid made for a better Justin Bieber

Singer Justin Bieber had vowed to change his bad boy ways. Photo / Getty Images

Justin Bieber says he vowed to change his ways after police raided his home last year.

The troubled pop star was stunned when officers raided his mansion in California in January, 2014, to search for evidence relating to an attack on a neighbour's home.

Bieber was later convicted of vandalism for pelting the nearby house with eggs, while his rapper friend Lil Za pleaded no contest to drug possession charges after cops caught him with ecstasy and painkiller Oxycodone during the raid.

The Baby hitmaker has now opened up about how the scary incident affected him, revealing it eventually shocked him into putting his wild ways behind him.

"That's when everything changed," he tells Men's Health magazine.

"Because it didn't get raided for drugs or anything. It got raided because I egged someone's house... I don't know, it was really weird. No one's ever gotten raided for eggs, ever. It's the first time."

Bieber was later arrested for a separate incident in Miami Beach, Florida, just a week after the police raid on his home.

He was subsequently convicted of charges including careless driving and resisting arrest and was sentenced to anger management counselling and ordered to hand over a series of fines.

- WENN