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Shawn Mendes has set the record straight about his relationship with Justin Bieber.

The pair recently collaborated on the track Monster but, according to long-standing speculation, the hitmakers were feuding early in their careers.

Speaking in a video question and answer video with GQ magazine, the 21-year-old Wonder singer insists that's not the case at all, stating: "Justin and I were never enemies. We were maybe not friends."

He added that he wasn't actually "texting (Justin) and being like, "Yo, how you doing today?', but we were never enemies, absolutely, and that's kind of something that people maybe might've turned it into at some point."

Shawn did recall a video that Justin made asking who he was years ago, but he affirmed: "He said he really genuinely didn't know who I was, and I believed him. So whatever, maybe he did and he was trying to bug me either way."