Even Britney Spears has been subjected to the dreaded textual content message breakup, in response to her upcoming memoir, The Lady in Me.
Within the e book (which The New York Instances obtained forward of its set October 24 publication date) Spears writes that former boy band member Justin Timberlake, whom she dated from 1999 to 2002, initiated their breakup over textual content message, leaving her “devastated.” In the meantime, the media, she writes, portrayed her as a “harlot who’d damaged the guts of America’s golden boy” although she was really “comatose in Louisiana, and he was fortunately working round Hollywood.”
She first met as Timberlake after they costarred as Mouseketeers on Disney’s reboot of The Mickey Mouse Membership and even shared a kiss throughout a childhood recreation of fact or dare, years earlier than they’d captivate the general public with their relationship, matching denim outfits, and supreme, extremely publicized, breakup.
She described the plot of Timberlake’s “Cry Me a River” music video, launched post-breakup in 2002 as, “a girl who seems to be like me cheats on him and he wanders round unhappy within the rain.” The music was a single off of Timberlake’s first post-’NSync solo album, Justified. And if the person that the newsboy-capped Britney avatar is concerned with seems to be a bit like Wade Robson, choreographer for each Spears and ’NSync, and a long-rumored paramour of Spears, that’s no coincidence both: Spears reportedly writes within the memoir that she kissed Robson whereas she and Timberlake had been relationship after listening to rumors that Timberlake had been untrue.
After the breakup, Spears writes that she felt was pressured by her father and her administration crew right into a now notorious interview with Diane Sawyer in 2003, the place the journalist requested her in scandalized tones “what occurred to your garments?!” and requested her “what did you do” to Timberlake.
“I feel everybody has a facet of their story and to make them really feel a sure means, to make them really feel. I’m not technically saying he’s flawed, however I’m not technically saying he’s proper, both,” Spears answered when Sawyer stated Timberlake implied that she had “betrayed their relationship.”
Within the memoir, she displays on the interview and its fallout.
“I felt like I had been exploited,” she writes, in response to the Instances, “arrange in entrance of the entire world.” She referred to as it a “breaking level.”
At one level within the interview, she begins to cry and mutters, “Sturdy, Britney!” to herself. She says she’s embarrassed and asks to cease the interview, her face crumpling.
Robson now has a life teaching and mentorship enterprise, along with nonetheless working as a choreographer. The Australian bought his begin as a five-year-old, when he received a dance competitors and met Michael Jackson, whom he claimed sexually abused him for years. In 2019, he spoke publicly about it within the documentary Leaving Neverland.
