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Britney Spears Memoir Alleges Justin Timberlake Cheated On Her, Per Reports
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In her new memoir, The Woman In Me, Britney Spears claims Justin Timberlake cheated on her with another celebrity, according to a report from TMZ.
For years, speculation swirled that the pair, who dated from 1999 to 2002, broke up due to Spears cheating on Timberlake. Fans widely assumed Timberlake’s 2002 hit Cry Me a River was about her alleged cheating, and she never publicly denied the claim.
In her memoir, Spears reportedly reveals Timberlake in fact cheated on her with a celebrity she wouldn’t name because the woman has a family now, and she didn’t want to embarrass them.
On social media, fans resurfaced old paparazzi shots showing a 19-year-old Timberlake and Nicole Appleton of the English girl group All Saints, then 25, ducking down in the backseat of a car in 2000.
A year after Timberlake released Cry Me A River, Spears released Everytime, which fans at the time saw as a response that appeared to allude to her cheating, with the lyrics: Please, forgive me. My weakness caused you pain. And this song’s my sorry.
But the song took on new meaning this week after an excerpt of the memoir published in People revealed that Spears had an abortion in 2000 at Timberlake’s urging. The Everytime music video, which features a woman giving birth, may have instead been alluding to that.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasnt a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than Id anticipated,” Spears wrote of the pregnancy.
“But Justin definitely wasnt happy about the pregnancy. He said we werent ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young, Spears wrote. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didnt want to be a father.”
She wrote that to this day, its one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.
The Woman in Me, which goes into detail about the pop star’s life, career, and 13-year legal conservatorship, will be available in bookstores and online on Oct. 24.
TMX contributed to this article.
