Revelations from Britney Spears‘s love life proceed to roll in because of pre-release copies of The Girl In Me making their manner into the media universe. Colin Farrell, you’re up.
“Brawl is the one phrase for it—we had been throughout one another, grappling so passionately it was like we had been in a road combat,” Spears writes of their short-lived romance in her memoir, which Time obtained forward of its official October 24 publication date.
Spears and the actor briefly related in 2003 shortly after her very public breakup with Justin Timberlake, whom she known as her old flame. Throughout her relationship with Timberlake, from 1999 to 2002, Spears grew to become pregnant after which acquired an abortion at Timberlake’s urging, and was later damaged up with by way of textual content message and subsequently portrayed as “a harlot” within the singer’s “Cry Me a River” music video, all of which she writes about within the forthcoming guide.
Elsewhere within the memoir, Spears writes that Timberlake slept with “six or seven women” within the weeks after their relationship “formally” ended, so she went out to have somewhat enjoyable of her personal within the midst of her heartbreak. “He was a woman’s dream,” she stated of Timberlake. “I used to be in love with him.”
She writes {that a} “membership promoter” pal set her up with Farrell, they usually had a “two-week brawl.”
The 2 attended the premiere of Farrell’s film The Recruits collectively, the place Farrell insisted they weren’t courting and Spears reportedly dipped as quickly because the cameras had been gone.
“We’re not courting,” Farrell stated on the time. “She’s a candy, candy lady. There’s nothing happening—simply mates.”
Later that 12 months, Spears would inform W Journal, “Sure, I kissed him… He is the cutest, hottest factor on the planet—wooh!… However it was nothing severe.”
In her guide, per Time, Spears writes of Farrell “for a short second in time, I did suppose there may very well be one thing there. The disappointments in my romantic life had been only one a part of how remoted I grew to become. I felt so awkward on a regular basis.”
“As I had earlier than after I’d felt too hooked up to a person, I attempted to persuade myself in each manner that it was not an enormous deal, that we had been simply having enjoyable, that on this case, I used to be susceptible as a result of I wasn’t over Justin but.”
Representatives for Britney Spears and Colin Farrell didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
