Scooter Braun Sought Help At Trendy Spiritual Retreat

Scooter Braun and wife Yael

In the months before he separated from his wife, Scooter Braun secretly checked into an “intense psycho-spiritual retreat.”

Back in the fall, sources told Page Six at the NY Post that Braun had entered the seven-day Hoffman Process program, which is all the rage at the moment in LA. But when we reached out for comment, Braun lied, denying that he’d ever been there.

Then in June — shortly before Page Six revealed that he’s separated from his wife, Yael, after seven years of marriage — Braun admitted in a podcast that he had, in fact, gone to the retreat after having the “darkest” thoughts of his life.

“My wife and I began to hear all kinds of rumors, like ‘[Scooter] has gone crazy.’ But it wasn’t that. It was just feeling like I wasn’t present in my life, and [feeling] like the people around me who loved me, I felt their hurt,” he said on Jay Shetty’s “On Purpose” podcast.

“Because, one, we’re all coming in with our own trauma, and weirdly our trauma was matching up, and … I couldn’t fix it. And I’m a fixer. Since I was a kid, I was the guy who was going to make it OK for everybody. And I just couldn’t fix things in this moment in time.”

The super-manager — who counts Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato as clients — said that he “started to spiral.”

He said eventually, “a very dark thought came into my head — the ultimate ‘I’m not enough;’ the ultimate ‘I shouldn’t be here.’ I immediately thought — what are you doing here? And I’ve never gone that dark. And I signed up for the Hoffman Project the next day.”

Later in the podcast, Braun said that he’d made plans to go to the Napa facility four times in the past and canceled each time, but he explained to Shetty why he finally decided to attend.

“You know what happened? My wife Yael, and my children,” he said. “I learned I love someone more than me, and loving them made me go do the work.”

Rumors of disquiet between Braun and the mining heiress and F**k Cancer founder have been rattling around the LA music business for more than a month.

But Page Six reported on Sunday that though the pair have decided to separate, they currently have no plans to divorce, according to sources close to the couple.

On its site, the Hoffman Process — which has treated Bieber, Sienna Miller and Katy Perry — calls the experience “a 7-day soul-searching, healing retreat of transformation & development for people who feel stuck in one or more important areas of their life.”

It promises participants they can “Make peace with your past, release from negative behaviors, [achieve] emotional healing & forgiveness, [discover] your authentic self” and have “improved relationships.”