{"id":61916,"date":"2023-12-15T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/no-disrespect-justin-timberlake-breaks-silence-on-britney-spears-drama-before-performing-controversial-cry-me-a-river\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T11:01:34","slug":"no-disrespect-justin-timberlake-breaks-silence-on-britney-spears-drama-before-performing-controversial-cry-me-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/no-disrespect-justin-timberlake-breaks-silence-on-britney-spears-drama-before-performing-controversial-cry-me-a-river\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;No disrespect&#8217;: Justin Timberlake breaks silence on Britney Spears drama before performing controversial Cry Me A River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-12-15\" datetime=\"1702638094\" pubdate=\"\">15 December 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/justin-timberlake\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,justin-timberlake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Timberlake<\/a> said &#8220;no disrespect&#8221; before performing his now-controversial hit &#8216;Cry Me A River&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Justin Timberlake admitted he means &#8216;no disrespect&#8217; to Britney Spears<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old singer&#8217;s ex-girlfriend, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/britney-spears\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,britney-spears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britney Spears<\/a>, claimed she felt like a \u201charlot who\u2019d broken the heart of America\u2019s golden boy&#8221; in Justin&#8217;s music video for the noughties tune, which came after their well-publicised split in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>And before he performed the track at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas on Wednesday (13.12.23), Justin broke his silence and addressed the drama with two words.<\/p>\n<p>In a fan-filmed clip that has gone viral, he simply said: &#8220;No disrespect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Toxic&#8217; hitmaker, also 42, made the comments against Justin in her tell-all memoir &#8216;The Woman In Me&#8217;, in which she also claimed she chose to abort Justin\u2019s baby when they were together as he wasn\u2019t ready to be a dad.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe said about the termination when she was 19: \u201cI loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I\u2019d anticipated. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut Justin definitely wasn\u2019t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren\u2019t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBritney added having the abortion was \u201cone of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;Oops!&#8230; I Did It Again&#8217; hitmaker also confessed that she cheated on Justin with Michael Jackson abuse accuser Wade Robson.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt has long been rumoured Britney and Justin split after three years of dating as she cheated with Australian choreographer Wade, 41, with the lyrics to the song fuelling speculation.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn her book, she wrote: \u201cWe were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar. We danced and danced. I made out with him that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nBritney also insists she stayed loyal to Justin for years \u201cwith that one exception\u201d, and that they were able to stay together afterwards and move past it.<\/p>\n<p>\nJustin, who is now settled with two sons with his actress wife Jessica Biel, 41, was said to be reeling over the revelations in Britney\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/disrespect-justin-timberlake-breaks-silence-britney-spears-drama-performing-controversial-cry-river-1390037.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 December 2023 Justin Timberlake said &#8220;no disrespect&#8221; before performing his now-controversial hit &#8216;Cry Me A River&#8217;. Justin Timberlake admitted he means &#8216;no disrespect&#8217; to Britney Spears The 42-year-old singer&#8217;s ex-girlfriend, Britney Spears, claimed she felt like a \u201charlot who\u2019d broken the heart of America\u2019s golden boy&#8221; in Justin&#8217;s music video for the noughties tune, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[383,1563,3280],"class_list":{"0":"post-61916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-britney-spears","9":"tag-justin-timberlake","10":"tag-wade-robson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}