Britney Spears wrote that she had an abortion whereas courting Justin Timberlake greater than 20 years in the past, in response to a peek inside her hotly anticipated memoir.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she writes of the process, in response to the excerpt from “The Woman in Me” revealed Tuesday in People journal. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”
The being pregnant “was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” she wrote within the excerpt, saying that she had needed to start out a household with Timberlake — it was simply sooner than 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,” she wrote. The couple broke up in 2002. It’s unclear when the being pregnant occurred.
Representatives for Spears declined to supply additional remark. Representatives for Timberlake didn’t reply to requests for remark from The Associated Press. The AP has not been in a position to independently evaluation a duplicate of the “The Woman in Me” but.
Spears, a prolific consumer of social media, has not posted to Instagram or X, because the People tales have been revealed.
In the excerpt revealed in People, she characterised the abortion as “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
Spears’ long-awaited memoir shall be revealed Oct. 24, simply months after her divorce from Sam Asghari was introduced and promising to make clear the 41-year-old’s tumultuous a long time within the highlight.
“NO ONE KNOWS WHAT I REALLY THOUGHT … UNTIL NOW,” reads a teaser for the ebook she posted Sunday. The audiobook shall be narrated by actor Michelle Williams.
Hailing from Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears rose to fame as a tween on “The Mickey Mouse Club,” alongside different future stars like Ryan Gosling and Timberlake — a trajectory chronicled in different excerpts revealed by People.
Despite some additional makes an attempt at performing — within the People excerpts, she says the lead in “The Notebook” got here right down to her and Rachel McAdams and that she was relieved when 2002’s “Crossroads” was “was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career” — she discovered indelible stardom along with her music profession, beginning with 1999’s “…Baby One More Time.”
She had two sons with Kevin Federline, however was positioned below a court-ordered conservatorship — largely below the supervision of her father — that managed her life, cash and voice after public breakdowns. That conservatorship would final almost 14 years, ending in late 2021, after a swelling #FreeBritney motion that helped safe new limits on conservatorships in California.
Many of Spears’ allegations in opposition to her father and others who operated the conservatorship are anticipated to be heard in a civil trial scheduled for subsequent 12 months.
A 2021 documentary, “Framing Britney Spears,” included an previous interview during which Timberlake spoke of sleeping with a former girlfriend and indicated he ridiculed her in his “Cry Me A River” music video. That sparked a backlash during which followers accused the previous NSYNC member of contributing to Spears’ breakdown and in addition renewed ire about his position in Janet Jackson’s so-called wardrobe malfunction in the course of the 2004 Super Bowl halftime present. Subsequently, he apologized to Spears and Jackson “because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed.”
A number of months later, as Spears revealed long-guarded secrets and techniques about what she described as an “abusive” conservatorship in court docket, Timberlake tweeted his help.
“After what we saw today, we should all be supporting Britney at this time,” he posted in June 2021. “Regardless of our past, good and bad, and no matter how long ago it was… what’s happening to her is just not right.”
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