Britney Spears reveals in her memoir that she had an abortion while dating Justin Timberlake more than 20 years ago.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she writes of the procedure, according to the excerpt from “The Woman in Me” published Tuesday in People magazine. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”
The pregnancy “was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” she wrote in the excerpt, saying that she had wanted to start a family with Timberlake it was just earlier than expected.
“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. However, the couple broke up in 2002, so it’s unclear when the pregancy happened. Representatives for the Spear family declined to add futher comments and Representatives for the Timberlake family have not yet responded to any of this. Although Britney Spears is a frequent user of Instagram and X, no stories have been published ever since she came out with her memoir.
In the excerpt published in People, she characterized the abortion as “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life”. Spears’ long awaited memoir that was published on October 24th, just months after her divorce with Sam Asghari which was announced before, and she promised to shed light on her tumultuous decades in the spotlight.Before she rose to fame, she tried several times to get into the acting industry. Britney says the lead in “The Notebook” came 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” however she found her fame with her music career, starting with 1999’s “…Baby One More Time.”
After that she has two sons with Kevin Federline but she was placed under court-ordered conservatorship mostly under the supervision of her father. That controlled everything; her life, money, and voice after public breakdowns. This conservatorship lasted 14 years, which ended in 2021, after a movement #FreeBritney that helped secure new rules for conservatorship in California. Many of Spears’ allegations against her father and others who operated the conservatorship are expected to be heard in a civil trial scheduled for next year.A 2021 documentary, “Framing Britney Spears,” included an old interview in 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 in which fans accused the former NSYNC member of contributing to Spears’ breakdown.
A few months later, when that was published Britney revealed her lomg guarded secrets about what she described as an “abusive” conservatorship in court, Timberlake tweeted his support for her. “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.”
