Freed from her guardianship, Britney Spears continues to make revelations about the behavior of her loved ones with her over the years. The latest concerns her former boyfriend Justin Timberlake, whom she accuses of having betrayed her in order to boost her singing career.
“He released his first album using your name and claiming that you had cheated on him,” recalled the “Toxic” singer on March 28. It was indeed following rumors of infidelity on the part of the singer (unfounded, she still wishes to point out today), that the two artists had separated in 2002, and Justin Timberlake had notoriously surfed on the increased media interest in this episode of their love life to give new impetus to his career.
In the documentary “Framing Britney Spears”, produced by the New York Times (visible in France on Prime), several witnesses had already pointed out that Justin Timberlake had used this breakup to launch his solo career.
He had at the time let several media accuse Britney Spears of having cheated on him, then of having broken up brutally with him, without ever speaking publicly on the subject. Witnesses recalled that he had released what would become a hit, “Cry Me a River”, which evokes a man cheated on by his former partner, and the clip featured a woman who looked just like Britney. spears.
At the same time, the media, and all of Puritan America with it, had seized on the subject to drag the young woman through the mud.
singer’s apology
Following the broadcast of the documentary “Framing Britney Spears”, which had received many negative reactions against him, Justin Timberlake had apologized to the singer, at the same time as to Janet Jackson in a message posted on Instagram.
For the record, the singer had, in 2004, snatched a bra cap from Janet Jackson, live from the Super Bowl halftime, revealing a breast. What had once again stirred up America.
The sequence had permanently affected the career of Janet Jackson, and not his. “I care about these two women, I respect them, and I know that I did not do what should have been done,” wrote the singer. “I am sorry for those times in my life when my actions contributed to the problem, when I monopolized the floor, when I did not speak in the name of what was right,” he continued. “I know that I was not up to the task in those moments, as in many others,” he admitted, “and that I benefited from a system that promotes misogyny and racism. .”
Words which, for Britney Spears, were obviously not enough to erase the damage suffered.