Extracts from Britney Spears‘s memoir, Woman in Me, have been slowly but surely leaking into the media, and thus far the revelations are hurting her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.
According to a passage obtained by PEOPLE Magazine and TMZ, Spears and Timberlake, who dated from 1999 to 2002, went their separate ways after a painful abortion and cheating scandal.
Spears confessed that she was not planning to get pregnant at the age of 20, but she was ready to accept her fate and be a mother, but Timberlake was adamant — he was not ready for fatherhood.
She revealed: “It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t 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 I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
The pop star went on to say that if it were up to her, she would have kept the baby. She wrote in the book: “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”
Spears had this to say about her experience undergoing the abortion: “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
Spears’s Woman in Me contained another bombshell about the *NSYNC crooner: he cheated on her with a major celebrity. According to TMZ, Spears refuses to reveal the name of the woman because: “She now has a family Brit doesn’t want to embarrass … which means fans will, inevitably, start trying to connect dots on their own.”
For the past 20 years, the world has believed that Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears split because she cheated. Now, the world is learning that the infidelity was on both sides.
It was always claimed that Timberlake’s massive hit song “Cry Me a River” released in 2002 was about Spears breaking his heart by being with another man.
Spears answered her former boyfriend with the emotional tract “Everytime” the following year. The track includes the following lyrics: “I may have made it rain. Please, forgive me. My weakness caused you pain. And this song’s my sorry.”
Fans now say that “Everytime” is about the abortion. Multiple sources told Page Six that Timberlake has been concerned about the memoir release.
One insider added: “He’s very curious what she’ll reveal from their relationship. It’s eating at him.”
He might be wondering if more things will come out.
