In her memoirs, Britney Spears made serious accusations against her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake. After a public apology from the pop princess, the singer is now dishing it out verbally – and she is shooting back.
In the past few months, Justin Timberlake, 42, has dominated the negative headlines. The musician didn’t come off well in the autobiography “The Woman in Me: My Story” by his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears, 42. The singer was all the more surprised with a public apology a few days ago – and is now backtracking. The reason? A statement from Timberlake that seems to refer to Spears.
Britney Spears raves about ex Justin Timberlake
But let’s start from the beginning: On Monday morning, January 29, 2024, the “Overprotected” interpreter first shared a video of Justin Timberlake’s appearance on his good friend Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show”, 49, in which he performs his new song “Selfish”. . She wrote a few benevolent lines about it. “I would like to apologize for some of the things I wrote in my book. If I have offended someone I really care about, I am deeply sorry,” said the 42-year-old remorsefully.
And that’s not all: Britney also praised her ex-boyfriend, with whom she was in a relationship from 1999 to 2002, for his new single. “I also wanted to say that I love Justin Timberlake’s new song ‘Selfish’ so much,” she gushed, adding, “So how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so hard?”
Timberlake rages: “I don’t want to apologize to anyone at all”
The Grammy winner’s laughter is now likely to get stuck in her throat. Because when Timberlake performed at Irving Plaza in New York on Wednesday, January 31, he appeared to respond to Britney’s public apology with a savage remark. As a concertgoer confirmed to People magazine, Justin Timberlake said before he performed his hit “Cry Me a River”: “I want to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely damn nobody.”
“Do you want to take this to court?”
A few hours after the statement was made public in the media, Britney Spears spoke out on Instagram. Once again she doesn’t mention her ex-partner’s name, but she seems to be referring to his statement. The singer writes: “Someone told me that someone is talking s*** about me on the street!!! Do you want to take this to court or do you want to go home to your mother crying like last time? It does I’m not sorry!!!”
Britney fans fight against chart placement of Justin Timberlake’s song
The former pop princess is currently benefiting from the hype surrounding Timberlake’s new song. Die-hard Britney fans are currently increasingly streaming her 2011 hit of the same name in an attempt to push her ex-boyfriend’s latest work off the charts. The song “Selfish” from the deluxe edition of her album “Femme Fatale” entered the top 40 of the US iTunes charts last Thursday – the same day that Timberlake released the first song from his upcoming album “Everything I Thought It Was” was released.
In her memoirs, published in October 2023, Britney Spears made serious allegations against the singer. Due to the hatred he received, Justin Timberlake withdrew from the spotlight for the time being and even briefly deleted his Instagram account. Now he is back with a new album and the announcement of a world tour.
Sources used: people.com, instagram.com, pagesix.com, variety.com