Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in 2002 at the ‘Crossroads’ premiere.
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Britney Spears has revealed she had an abortion while she was in a relationship with fellow singer Justin Timberlake, calling it “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
The pop icon opened up about the decision in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, according to People. The duo, who were together for three years, began dating in 1999 when Spears was 17 and the *NSYNC alum was 18, with their relationship ending in 2002. Spears says that her decision to have the abortion was because Timberlake didn’t want to go through with the pregnancy.
“Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” she wrote, according to People. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
Adding in the book, “I don’t know if that was the right decision. 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 went on to say that, his stance “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.”
Still, for the singer, the event remains, “To this day … one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Timberlake’s reps for comment.
Spears’ new memoir, which comes out Oct. 24, will tell her side of a decades-long career, growing up in entertainment, her various personal relationships and her 13-year conservatorship, which ended in November 2021.
“It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,” she told the magazine for their latest cover story. “No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present and future.”
In excerpts released earlier on Tuesday, Spears detailed why she was relieved she lost out on the leading role in The Notebook to Rachel McAdams, her experiences in the Mickey Mouse Club and performing with a large snake during the MTV Music Awards. But she also discusses the more painful parts of her life, including how her father, Jamie, controlled her through a conservatorship and the experiences of being treated like an object for years by him and his business associates.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot,” she said. “I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.”
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