The music sensation mentioned the information in her soon-to-be memoir “The Woman in Me”; Timberlake did not reply right away. According to excerpts from Britney Spears’ eagerly awaited biography published by People Magazine on Tuesday, she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake. The passage states, “Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” according People. “He said we were far too young and not ready to have a baby in our lives.”
Requests for reaction from Timberlake’s representatives were not immediately answered. Beginning when she was 17 and he was 18, Spears and Timberlake dated for a few years, creating a tabloid frenzy as they rose to prominence as two of the most influential pop singers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2021, the public turned its attention back to their relationship when the New York Times documentary “Framing Britney Spears” reexamined the public’s response to their breakup, which was portrayed in the media as Spears’s fault.
This was partially due to a Timberlake music video that suggested Spears had cheated on him. In an Instagram post, Timberlake expressed his regret to Spears, stating he had “failed” her without providing any specifics. The memoir, titled “The Woman in Me,” will be released the following week. It is Spears’ first comprehensive history of her life and career and comes after she was freed from a court conservatorship that had controlled her life for almost 13 years.
The selection of clips that have been made public so far highlight her turbulent times before landing a record deal at the age of fifteen, her famous moment at the 2001 Video Music Awards when she held a live snake and her inner monologue, as well as how the conservatorship—which was imposed in the wake of several high-profile incidents in 2007 and 2008—killed her desire to perform.
The passage said, “I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasn’t in it anymore.” “At that point, my love of singing and dancing was practically a joke.’ Before the conservatorship, which was primarily managed by her father James P. Spears, ended almost two years ago, a group of supporters organizing under the hashtag #FreeBritney organized protests and rallies in Los Angeles.
Since it ended, Spears, 41, has gotten married, split up with her spouse, and released two singles. She has also shared glimpses of her frustration with the conservatorship on Instagram, but her memoir will offer the most comprehensive and structured look yet into her thoughts on how the little things in her life were controlled by others while she was a successful international pop star.