Justin Timberlake reportedly appeared to take a shot at his ex-Britney Spears when he told an audience he would be apologizing to &#8220;absolutely f***ing nobody&#8221; — after Spears appeared to issue a mea-culpa to Timberlake days earlier.
During the 43-year-old singer&#8217;s one-night-only show in New York, just before performing his hit song &#8220;Cry Me A River&#8221; (a breakup song about Spears) Timberlake reportedly said,  &#8220;I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely f***ing nobody,&#8221; <a href="https://people.com/justin-timberlake-apologizes-to-absolutely-fing-nobody-before-performing-cry-me-a-river-at-concert-8557310?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&amp;utm_content=new&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=65bbb979e0892a0001843660">People magazine</a> reported.
The comments came after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-new-memoir-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-first-week-grateful-to-my-fans">Spears</a> appeared to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-appears-to-apologize-to-justin-timberlake-for-the-things-i-wrote-about-in-tell-all-book">apologize</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake">Timberlake</a> &#8220;for the things&#8221; she wrote about in her tell-all memoir &#8220;The Woman in Me&#8221; — in which she revealed that while they were dating, she got pregnant and got an abortion. 
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Justin Timberlake told a New York City audience he&#8217;d &#8220;like to take this opportunity to apologize — to absolutely &#8230; nobody,” just days after Britney Spears said she was sorry about comments from her book. <a href="https://t.co/tor6wc95KM">https://t.co/tor6wc95KM</a>
— NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1753146425053991342?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2rDnm0rZbzvXrzuPHltYIa9uys3_lL9DYCbE40/">Instagram</a> post, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/britney-spears">42-year-old</a> singer poured praise on Timberlake and shared a screenshot of the superstar singer&#8217;s recent appearance on &#8220;The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,&#8221; where he debuted one of the new songs on his album.
&#8220;I wanna apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book,&#8221; Spears <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/29/britney-spears-apologizes-justin-timberlake-memoir-praises-new-music/">wrote</a> in the caption next to the screenshot. &#8220;If I offended any of the people I genuinely care about I am deeply sorry.&#8221;
&#8220;I also wanted to say I am in love with Justin Timberlake&#8217;s new song &#8216;Selfish,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;It is soo good and how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so hard?&#8221;
As of Thursday, Spears&#8217; apology post has been deleted.  The &#8220;Toxic&#8221; hitmaker also reportedly responded to Timberlake&#8217;s swipe in a <a href="https://x.com/breatheonmiley/status/1753111587953758586?s=20">screenshot</a> shared Thursday that read, &#8220;Someone told me someone was talking sh*tabout me on the streets!  Do you want to bring it to the court or will you go home crying to your mom like you did last time?  I&#8217;m not sorry!”
In October, Spears revealed in her book that she got <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake">pregnant</a> at 19 and ended up getting an abortion, claiming that it was in large part because Timberlake &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be a father.&#8221; The two dated from 1999 — when she was 17 and he was 18 — until 2002, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/britney-spears-abortion-justin-timberlake-1235759140/">Variety</a> noted.
She <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622">wrote</a> that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake said they were &#8220;too young&#8221; to have a child.
&#8220;It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy,&#8221; the former &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; star wrote. &#8220;I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I&#8217;d anticipated.&#8221;
&#8220;But Justin definitely wasn&#8217;t happy about the pregnancy,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said we weren&#8217;t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; the singer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12654057/Britney-Spears-excruciating-pain-abortion-Justin-Timberlake-pregnant.html">continued</a>. &#8220;And yet Justin was so sure that he didn&#8217;t want to be a father. To this day, it&#8217;s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-admits-in-new-memoir-she-cheated-on-justin-timberlake">Spears</a> also claimed in her memoir, that while they were dating, Timberlake cheated on her with &#8220;another celebrity,&#8221; but she said she wouldn&#8217;t name the person because she&#8217;s now &#8220;married with children.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-new-memoir-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-first-week-grateful-to-my-fans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a> appeared to apologize to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justin Timberlake</a> &#8220;for the things&#8221; she wrote about in her tell-all memoir, &#8220;The Woman In Me&#8221; — in which she revealed that while they were dating, she got pregnant and got an abortion.
In an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2rDnm0rZbzvXrzuPHltYIa9uys3_lL9DYCbE40/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> post, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/britney-spears" target="_blank" rel="noopener">42-year-old</a> singer poured praise on Timberlake and shared a screenshot of the superstar singer&#8217;s recent appearance on &#8220;The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,&#8221; where he debuted one of the new songs on his album.
&#8220;I wanna apologize for some of the things I wrote about in my book,&#8221; Spears <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/29/britney-spears-apologizes-justin-timberlake-memoir-praises-new-music/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in the caption next to the screenshot. &#8220;If I offended any of the people I genuinely care about I am deeply sorry.&#8221;
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Pop icon Britney Spears issued an apology to ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake after she made several claims about the “Cry Me a River” singer in her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” <a href="https://t.co/IJXduKcO5u">https://t.co/IJXduKcO5u</a> <a href="https://t.co/UP6Wkvl0DE">pic.twitter.com/UP6Wkvl0DE</a>
— New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1752046066579480793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I also wanted to say I am in love with Justin Timberlake&#8217;s new song &#8216;Selfish,'&#8221; she added. “It is soo good and how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so hard?”
In October, the &#8220;Toxic&#8221; hitmaker revealed in her book that she got <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake">pregnant</a> at 19 and ended up getting an abortion, claiming that it was in large part because Timberlake &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be a father.&#8221; The two dated from 1999 — when she was 17 and he was 18 — until 2002, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/britney-spears-abortion-justin-timberlake-1235759140/">Variety</a> noted.
She <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622">wrote</a> that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake said they were &#8220;too young&#8221; to have a child.
&#8220;It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy,&#8221; the former &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; star wrote. &#8220;I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I&#8217;d anticipated.&#8221;
&#8220;But Justin definitely wasn&#8217;t happy about the pregnancy,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said we weren&#8217;t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,&#8221; the singer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12654057/Britney-Spears-excruciating-pain-abortion-Justin-Timberlake-pregnant.html">continued</a>. &#8220;And yet Justin was so sure that he didn&#8217;t want to be a father. To this day, it&#8217;s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-admits-in-new-memoir-she-cheated-on-justin-timberlake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spears</a> also claimed in her memoir, that while they were dating, Timberlake cheated on her with &#8220;another celebrity,&#8221; but she said she wouldn&#8217;t name the person because she&#8217;s now &#8220;married with children.&#8221;

Britney Spears Appears To Apologize To Justin Timberlake ‘For The Things I Wrote About’ In Tell-All Book

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In a recent shocking turn of events, America’s Princess of Pop unlocked a national conversation on a taboo subject for countless women across this country. In <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passages</a> from her new memoir, Britney Spears details undergoing intense pain from an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-describes-at-home-abortion-as-excruciating-crying-and-sobbing-for-hours" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘agonizing’ at-home abortion</a>. Spears alleges that her serious boyfriend at the time, Justin Timberlake, was “sure he didn’t want to be a father.” In a one-two gut punch, she reveals that the pregnancy was, “a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much.” Spears alleges that contrary to her choice, she ultimately agreed with Timberlake’s decision to abort their child. She says that decision still haunts her to this day. “Twenty years later, [I] remember the pain of it, and the fear…if it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it.”
Now ask yourself, does that sound like an empowering picture of women’s choice to you?
Abortion coercion happens and it happens at alarming rates, yet hardly anyone talks about it. A <a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/146123-the-effects-of-abortion-decision-rightness-and-decision-type-on-womens-satisfaction-and-mental-health#!/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent study from earlier this year</a> shows that this is a hidden epidemic in our country, with nearly 70% of abortions cited as coerced, unwanted, or inconsistent with women’s preferences. Megyn Kelly said it best on her podcast when she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EpIXxVcn7k" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared Spears’ news</a>, commenting on her bravery and posing a million-dollar question: Why don’t we talk about this problem? 
I believe the biggest reason we don’t talk about abortion coercion, unfortunately, is because it&#8217;s an inconvenient truth for the business of abortion. Consider that, after the heart-breaking news about her abortion, not one stitch of communication came from Planned Parenthood, Emily’s List, or Reproductive Freedom for All (formerly NARAL Pro-Choice America). How odd, particularly when these pro-abortion organizations glad-hand with celebrities like there’s no tomorrow and demand women “shout” with unalloyed pride about their abortions. But it was crickets from them in response to Spears’ abortion confession. These organizations should be leading the charge to break the silence, stop the chokehold, and blot out this injustice. We should all be encouraged to activate our voices, just like Britney Spears, and share our experiences of abortion coercion. 
In 2021, Spears’ conservatorship court case alleged that her team forced her to have an IUD inside her so she couldn’t get pregnant. <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/planned-parenthood-britney-spears-iud/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood responded</a> swiftly, “We stand in solidarity with Britney and all women who face reproductive coercion.”
Well, where is that same vigor today when the reproductive coercion that she alleges tips the scales in favor of abortion? Where is your solidarity?
The truth is abortion is the currency of pro-abortion activists and the political currency of most Democrats. Good luck trying to get them to sever their own cash cow. Look no further than last year’s <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/planned-parenthood-rakes-billions-despite-offering-fewer-services-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Planned Parenthood Annual Report</a>. They raked in $1.9 billion in income – almost $1.9 million a day coming from taxpayers – while carrying out more than 374,000 abortions. 97% of the time, when a woman comes to them pregnant, she is sold an abortion. They charge a woman anywhere from around $600 for the earliest abortions to thousands of dollars for third-trimester abortions. And organizations like Planned Parenthood and others are also multi-million-dollar donors to Democrats.
They all know that abortion coercion is real, it happens, and it is detrimental to women. But none of them are willing to condemn it or even publicly acknowledge its existence. How can you be in the business of abortion and not recognize how it can be weaponized against women? You can’t mention reproductive coercion without admitting the role abortion plays.
I would encourage any of them to visit a pregnancy resource center and talk to women with unplanned pregnancies. I talk to them every week. I was one of those women.
When I confronted my child’s father with our unplanned pregnancy, he engaged in a full night of drinking. After he was drunk, he demanded I abort our child and threatened me. I don’t know how I mustered the courage, but I told him I would not be aborting our baby. After that, to my surprise, he never threatened me with abortion again. But not everyone’s story turns out like mine. And frankly, no one should ever be threatened, pressured, or forced to abort – by a partner, parent, physician or anyone.
Britney Spears’ confession has sparked a national conversation and I am thankful for it. As a country, we need to break the silence and allow women the freedom to publicly share our abortion coercion stories without fear or shame. And I invite abortion organizations like Planned Parenthood and others to join us in condemning abortion coercion and to stand in solidarity and elevate the stories of women who have been harmed by abortion. 
E.V Osment is the VP of Communications at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, communicating and fighting for the human right-to-life. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/britney-spears">Britney Spears</a> described her painful, emotional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">abortion</a> experience in her newly released memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which became available on Tuesday.
The 41-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">pop star</a> previously told People Magazine that she hadn’t wanted to go through with the procedure but opted to abort her baby when her boyfriend at the time, fellow singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/justin-timberlake">Justin Timberlake</a>, decided he didn’t want to be a father.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” Spears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake">wrote</a> of getting pregnant. “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,” she added. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”
Spears started dating Timberlake in 1999 when she was 17 and he was 18. The abortion reportedly happened when Spears was about 19. They were a couple until 2002.
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“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” Spears wrote of deciding to get an abortion. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father. To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
As for the abortion, Spears described in detail how it felt in her memoir. &#8220;It was important that no one find out about the pregnancy or the abortion, which meant doing everything at home,” she <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/10/24/britney-spears-memoir-madonna-friendship-justin-timberlake-turmoil/71295328007/">wrote</a>. 
Because they were worried about the abortion being leaked to the press, only Spears’ assistant and family friend Felicia Culotta and Timberlake knew about the procedure. 
The pop star wrote in the book that the process was “excruciating&#8221; and that she was lying on the bathroom floor “sobbing and screaming” after ingesting the abortifacient pills because “the pain was unbelievable.” She wrote in the book that Timberlake was with her, strumming his guitar to try to cheer her up.
&#8220;I kept crying and sobbing until it was all over. It took hours, and I don’t remember how it ended, but I do, twenty years later, remember the pain of it, and the fear,&#8221; Spears wrote.

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Britney Spears Describes At-Home Abortion As ‘Excruciating,’ ‘Crying And Sobbing’ For ‘Hours’

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears&#8217; new</a> memoir out Tuesday titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Woman-Me-Britney-Spears/dp/1668009048" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Woman In Me</a>&#8221; is full of numerous bombshells including that she had an abortion at 19 while dating Justin Timberlake, teen drinking with her mom, feeling &#8220;objectified&#8221; by her parents/media, and more.
The 41-year-old singer said her childhood, which she said involved drinking daiquiris with her mom and dating Justin Timberlake after meeting on &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club,&#8221; was anything but ordinary, <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-drank-daiquiris-with-mom-lynne-spears-in-8th-grade-exclusive-8362519?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram&amp;utm_content=likeshop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported.
&#8220;For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom [Lynne] and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris,&#8221; Spears wrote. &#8220;We called our cocktails &#8216;toddies.'&#8221;
&#8220;I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it,&#8221; she added. &#8220;When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous.&#8221;
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Spears revealed in the book that while she was dating Timberlake, the pop star got <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pregnant</a> at 19 and ended up getting an abortion, claiming the actor &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be a father.&#8221; The two dated from 1999 — when she was 17 and he was 18 — until 2002, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/britney-spears-abortion-justin-timberlake-1235759140/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted.
She <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake said they were &#8220;too young&#8221; to have a child.
&#8220;It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy,&#8221; the former &#8220;The Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; star wrote. &#8220;I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I&#8217;d anticipated.&#8221;
&#8220;But Justin definitely wasn&#8217;t happy about the pregnancy,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said we weren&#8217;t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.&#8221;
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&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,&#8221; the singer <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12654057/Britney-Spears-excruciating-pain-abortion-Justin-Timberlake-pregnant.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. &#8220;And yet Justin was so sure that he didn&#8217;t want to be a father. To this day, it&#8217;s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.&#8221;
The superstar said because of the need for secrecy, the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12654057/Britney-Spears-excruciating-pain-abortion-Justin-Timberlake-pregnant.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">abortion</a> was done at her home, writing about the &#8220;excruciating&#8221; pain.
&#8220;It was important that no one find out about the pregnancy or the abortion, which meant doing everything at home,&#8221; the singer <a href="https://apnews.com/article/britney-spears-memoir-key-moments-timberlake-80d00a6d450d87ae68457bd826843be4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recalled,</a> adding that they didn&#8217;t tell her family.
The &#8220;Toxic&#8221; hitmaker claimed in the new book that while the Disney stars were dating, the former NSYNC member cheated on her with &#8220;another celebrity,&#8221; <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/10/18/britney-spears-claims-justin-timberlake-cheated-on-her-in-memoir-report/?utm_source=instagram&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix&amp;utm_content=curalate_like2buy_oY9UkwSj__44071179-19aa-4bad-a631-aeafc2c5f9f8&amp;utm_term=curalate_like2buy&amp;crl8_id=44071179-19aa-4bad-a631-aeafc2c5f9f8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> noted.
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Spears chose not to name the actress because she said the woman has a family and &#8220;doesn’t want to embarrass&#8221; her. Another revelation from the &#8220;Gimme More &#8221; hitmaker was that she admitted she cheated while dating Timberlake with choreographer Wade Robson-confirming longtime rumors about unfaithfulness in their relationship.
Spears <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/10/19/britney-spears-admits-she-cheated-on-justin-timberlake-with-wade-robson-in-memoir/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confessed</a> she &#8220;made out&#8221; and danced through the night with Robson when the two ended up at a Spanish bar while she was still in a relationship with Timberlake. The  pop star suggested in her memoir that her cheating had more to do with rumors of unfaithfulness by the former &#8220;Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; member, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/music/britney-spears-memoir-takeaways.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> noted.
Spears&#8217; time in the spotlight briefly came to an end in 1994 when her time on the &#8220;Mickey Mouse Club&#8221; show ended. She talked fondly of that time in the memoir but admitted she missed performing.
In 1998, the 16-year-old singer released her debut single &#8220;&#8230;Baby One More Time&#8221; and became a huge celebrity. During the height of her career in the mid-2000s Spears appeared in headlines for the wild partying she was doing with socialite Paris Hilton and Disney actress Lindsay Lohan.
In the memoir, the pop star disputes that she was ever as &#8220;wild&#8221; as the press reported during her early adulthood as she admitted to doing &#8220;Adderall liberally&#8221; while she was drinking to feel &#8220;less depressed,&#8221; <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/10/19/britney-spears-reveals-drug-of-choice-from-2000s-partying-days/?utm_source=instagram&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=pagesix&amp;utm_content=curalate_like2buy_oY9UkwSj__374c9d3a-c1be-4910-9b74-e7a7dc6dff42&amp;utm_term=curalate_like2buy&amp;crl8_id=374c9d3a-c1be-4910-9b74-e7a7dc6dff42" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> noted.
In 2004, she tied the knot with dancer Kevin Federline and the couple had two sons together. They divorced in 2007.
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In 2008, Spear&#8217;s father was put in charge of her financial affairs over concerns about the pop star&#8217;s mental health after she had been hospitalized for involuntary psychological assessments <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/music/britney-spears-memoir-takeaways.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">twice</a>. She remained under the conservatorship controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, for nearly 14 years.
The singer said when it comes to that time in her life, it&#8217;s still hard to think about &#8220;having my freedom stripped away.&#8221;
She wrote that many of the headline-catching things she did during that time, like shaving her head bald, were about trying to have control in a situation where she said she had none, <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-says-dad-jamie-spears-repeatedly-told-her-looked-fat-during-conservatorship-exclusive-8362501?utm_campaign=people&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram&amp;utm_content=likeshop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a> noted.
&#8220;I&#8217;d been eyeballed so much growing up,&#8221; Spears wrote. I’d been looking up and down, and had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. But under the conservatorship, I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.&#8221;
Spears said because she didn&#8217;t get to feel like an adult she would do &#8220;child-like&#8221; things and act like &#8220;a little girl&#8221; under the conservatorship, <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-felt-like-child-robot-under-conservatorship-exclusive-8362488?hid=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc&amp;did=10702090-20231017&amp;utm_source=ppl&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=people-news_newsletter&amp;utm_content=101723&amp;lctg=4f90b78dc31e627328d98338e1fa49d03b364abc">People</a> reported.
&#8220;This is what&#8217;s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom,&#8221; the teen pop star wrote. &#8220;There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn&#8217;t treat me like an adult…”
Several other revelations from Britney’s memoir <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-was-infantilized-and-a-child-robot-under-conservatorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">included</a> that she felt &#8220;infantilized&#8221; and like a &#8220;child robot&#8221; under her conservatorship and she has no plans to get back to performing.
&#8220;Feeling like you&#8217;re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child,&#8221; Spears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-was-infantilized-and-a-child-robot-under-conservatorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote.</a> &#8220;He&#8217;d [Jamie] drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I&#8217;d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself. The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage.&#8221;
&#8220;Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself,&#8221; Spears said, <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/britney-spears-memoir-father-jamie-called-fat-1235620387/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">THR</a> reported. &#8220;I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick. Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didn&#8217;t deserve what my family did to me.&#8221;
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In November 2021, a judge terminated the conservatorship.
&#8220;Pushing forward in my music career is not my focus at the moment,&#8221; Britney wrote. &#8220;It’s time for me not to be someone who other people want; it’s time to actually find myself.&#8221;
&#8220;The Woman In Me&#8221; is due out October 24.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-memoir-finally-gets-release-date" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears&#8217; Memoir Finally Gets Release Date</a>

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Britney Spears Drops Numerous Bombshells In New Memoir ‘The Woman In Me’

Britney Spears Drops Numerous Bombshells In New Memoir 'The Woman In Me'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-got-an-abortion-while-dating-justin-timberlake" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a> admitted in her upcoming memoir &#8220;The Woman In Me&#8221; that while she was dating Justin Timberlake she did cheat on him with choreographer Wade Robson — confirming longtime rumors about unfaithfulness in their relationship.
The 41-year-old pop singer confessed she &#8220;made out&#8221; and danced through the night with Robson when the two ended up at a Spanish bar while she was still in a relationship with Timberlake, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/10/19/britney-spears-admits-she-cheated-on-justin-timberlake-with-wade-robson-in-memoir/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> reported.
&#8220;We were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar,&#8221; Spears wrote. &#8220;We danced and danced. I made out with him that night.&#8221;
The &#8220;Toxic&#8221; hitmaker said the couple &#8220;agreed to move past&#8221; her infidelity because she had otherwise been &#8220;loyal to Justin&#8221; for years and &#8220;only had eyes for him.&#8221;
However, the &#8220;Womanizer&#8221; hitmaker suggested in her memoir that her cheating had more to do with rumors of unfaithfulness involving the former Mickey Mouse Club member, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/arts/music/britney-spears-memoir-takeaways.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> noted.
&#8220;I felt like I had been exploited,&#8221; the pop singer wrote. &#8220;Set up in front of the whole world.&#8221;
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Britney Spears reveals in her memoir that Justin Timberlake cheated on her with another celebrity during their releationship, TMZ reports. <a href="https://t.co/oPeU0KO3XJ">pic.twitter.com/oPeU0KO3XJ</a>
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In the book, Spears accused the 42-year-old singer of cheating on her while they were dating with &#8220;another celebrity,&#8221; but she said she wouldn&#8217;t name the person because she&#8217;s now &#8220;married with children.&#8221;
At the time, fans believed Timberlake was involved with singer Nicole Appleton — after the two got caught by <a href="https://twitter.com/breatheonmiley/status/1198396067190124544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paparrazzi</a> in the back of a car together after a night out in London in 2000.
Appleton shares son Gene, 22, with her ex-husband, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. She has since remarried Stephen Haines and shares 3-year-old daughter Skipper with him, Page Six noted.
Spears and Timberlake dated from 1999 — when she was 17 and he was 18 — until 2002, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/britney-spears-abortion-justin-timberlake-1235759140/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted.
In 2003, Timberlake released his hit song &#8220;Cry Me A River,&#8221; which features a look-a-like Spears in the music video, and it has long been believed the song was about Britney cheating on him.
Ahead of the release of the memoir, the &#8220;Gimme More&#8221; hitmaker made several other revelations, including that she got pregnant with Timberlake&#8217;s child and agreed at his request to get an abortion, claiming the actor &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be a father.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-shares-cryptic-posts-following-news-of-split-from-husband" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Spears</a> wrote that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake said they were &#8220;too young&#8221; to have a baby, <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported.
&#8220;It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy,&#8221; the pop star wrote. &#8220;I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I&#8217;d anticipated.&#8221;
&#8220;But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said we weren&#8217;t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.&#8221;

Britney Spears Admits In New Memoir She Cheated On Justin Timberlake

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lighten-up-about-the-knives-britney-spears-defends-video-of-her-dancing-with-butcher-knives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Britney Spears</a> wrote in her memoir &#8220;The Woman In Me&#8221; that while she was dating Justin Timberlake, she got pregnant and ended up getting an abortion, claiming the actor &#8220;didn&#8217;t want to be a father.&#8221;
Spears, 41, wrote that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake, 42, said they were too young to have a baby, <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-justin-timberlake-pregnancy-abortion-exclusive-8362622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People magazine</a> reported.
&#8220;It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn&#8217;t a tragedy,&#8221; Spears wrote. &#8220;I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I&#8217;d anticipated.&#8221;
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&#8220;But Justin definitely wasn&#8217;t happy about the pregnancy,&#8221; she added. &#8220;He said we weren&#8217;t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.&#8221;
Spears said it is still one of the most harrowing experiences she&#8217;s ever had.
&#8220;If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;And yet Justin was so sure that he didn&#8217;t want to be a father. To this day, it&#8217;s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.&#8221;
Spears started dating Timberlake in 1999 when she was 17 and he was 18, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/music/news/britney-spears-abortion-justin-timberlake-1235759140/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> noted. The two dated until 2002.
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She went on to tie the knot with Kevin Federline in 2004, and the couple had two sons.
On Tuesday, several other revelations from Britney&#8217;s memoir were released, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/britney-spears-says-she-was-infantilized-and-a-child-robot-under-conservatorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> that she felt &#8220;infantilized&#8221; and like a &#8220;child robot&#8221; under her nearly 14 years of conservatorship controlled by her father, Jamie Spears.
&#8220;Feeling like you&#8217;re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child,&#8221; Spears <a href="https://people.com/britney-spears-felt-like-child-robot-under-conservatorship-exclusive-8362488" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;He&#8217;d [Jamie] drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I&#8217;d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot,&#8221; she added. &#8220;I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself. The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage.&#8221;
In November 2021, a judge terminated the conservatorship.
&#8220;The Woman In Me&#8221; is due out October 24.

Britney Spears Says She Got An Abortion While Dating Justin Timberlake

Jessica Biel opened up about her marriage to superstar singer Justin Timberlake, admitting through the &#8220;ups and downs&#8221; she&#8217;s &#8220;really proud&#8221; of it just ahead of her ten year anniversary.
During the promotion of the 40-year-old actress&#8217;s upcoming Hulu miniseries &#8220;Candy,&#8221; Biel told Access Hollywood&#8217;s Zuri Hall she could hardly believe it&#8217;s been ten years since she and Timberlake tied the knot when asked what the &#8220;milestone&#8221; meant to her. The interview was shared on <a href="https://twitter.com/accesshollywood/status/1518783170870534144?s=20&amp;t=9Zfbuf26NTWVh4ZYW9zKFg">Twitter</a> in a post by the outlet on Monday.
&#8220;I sometimes feel like 10 years has just flown by in the blink of an eye and other times I feel like, &#8216;Oh my gosh, 10 years, that&#8217;s a really substantial amount of someone&#8217;s life,'&#8221; &#8220;The Sinner&#8221; star shared. &#8220;I just feel really proud of it.”
&#8220;We&#8217;ve had our ups and down like everybody and I&#8217;m just really proud of it and I&#8217;m still the happiest and loving my life,&#8221; she added.
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The &#8220;Cry Me A River&#8221; hitmaker and <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jessica-biel-branded-anti-vaxxer-after-meeting-ca-amanda-prestigiacomo/">Jessica</a> tied the knot in 2012 at a gorgeous ceremony in Puglia, Italy, the report noted. Biel and Timberlake also share two children together, 7-year-old Silas and 2-year-old Phineas.
In December 2019, the &#8220;Friends With Benefits&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-responds-to-cheating-rumors-with-public-apology-to-wife">star</a> made a public apology to his wife following cheating rumors involving him and his &#8220;Palmer&#8221; co-star Alisha Wainwright.
&#8220;I stay away from gossip as much as I can, but for my family, I feel it is important to address recent rumors that are hurting the people I love,&#8221; Timberlake wrote in an <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B5q_HOth4qJ/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=126294df-373a-4c99-a09b-59113dd2bb2a">Instagram</a> post.
&#8220;A few weeks ago I displayed a strong lapse in judgment – but let me be clear – nothing happened between me and my co-star,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I drank way too much that night and I regret my behavior. I should have known better.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not the example I want to set for my son,&#8221; Timberlake continued. &#8220;I apologize to my amazing wife and family for putting them through such an embarrassing situation, and I am focused on being the best husband and father I can be. This was not that.&#8221;
The &#8220;Rock Your Body&#8221; hitmaker concluded his post by sharing how he was &#8220;incredibly proud to be working&#8221; with Palmer, looked forward continuing to make the movie, and was excited for others to see it.
Timberlake&#8217;s statement came out after a report in <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10409561/justin-timberlake-holds-hands-alisha-wainwright-strokes-knee-boozy/">the Sun</a> surfaced showing him and Wainwright holding hands at an outdoor bar where the two were drinking.
In one of the photos, the two stars appeared to be holding hands. In a second shared by the outlet, Wainwright had her hand on the knee of &#8220;The Social Network&#8221; star.

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Jessica Biel Talks About ‘Ups And Downs’ Of Marriage To Justin Timberlake

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After the release of The New York Times documentary &#8220;Framing Britney Spears,&#8221; which explores her father&#8217;s conservatorship over her finances and the media&#8217;s inappropriate treatment of her, Justin Timberlake has apologized for his treatment of the pop icon after the two had dated.
In a statement on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMxYbGhTno/">Instagram</a>, Timberlake apologized to both Britney Spears and Janet Jackson for how he &#8220;fell short&#8221; in certain moments, which perpetuated a system of &#8220;misogyny and racism.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen the messages, tags, comments, and concerns and I want to respond. I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right. I understand that I fell short in these moments and in many others and benefited from a system that condones misogyny and racism,&#8221; Timberlake said. &#8220;I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed. I also feel compelled to respond, in part, because everyone involved deserves better and most importantly, because this is a larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be part of and grow from…&#8221;
&#8220;The industry is flawed. It sets men, especially white men, up for success. It’s designed this way. As a man in a privileged position I have to be vocal about this. Because of my ignorance, I didn’t recognize it for all that it was while it was happening in my own life but I do not want to ever benefit from others being pulled down again,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;I have not been perfect in navigating all of this throughout my career. I know this apology is a first step and doesn&#8217;t absolve the past. I want to take accountability for my own missteps in all of this as well as be part of a world that uplifts and supports. I care deeply about the wellbeing of the people I love and have loved. I can do better and I will do better,&#8221; he concluded.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/justin-timberlake-apology-britney-spears-janet-jackson-backlash">reported</a> by Fox News, the documentary briefly explores the relationship between Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in the early-2000s:
<blockquote>In the documentary, Spears&#8217; and Timberlake&#8217;s past romance is examined, once again bringing attention to their controversial split, which, according to Page Six, sparked rumors that Spears was unfaithful.
Timberlake&#8217;s &#8220;Cry Me a River&#8221; video featuring an adultress blonde character fueled such speculation, as did a 2003 interview between the &#8220;Toxic&#8221; singer and Diane Sawyer, who grilled the actress over what she did that caused &#8220;so much suffering&#8221; for Timberlake.</blockquote>
ABC reporter Diane Sawyer also received strong criticism on social media after the documentary scrutinized her 2003 interview.
&#8220;He has gone on television and pretty much said you broke his heart,&#8221; Sawyer told Britney at the time. &#8220;You did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering… What did you do?&#8221;

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A trailer dropped Thursday for an upcoming film starring Justin Timberlake in which his character mentors a young boy with apparent gender dysphoria.
&#8220;Palmer,&#8221; which premieres Jan. 29, 2021, on Apple TV, is about Eddie Palmer, played by Timberlake, a former high school football star who returns to his Louisiana hometown after spending 12 years in prison, according to <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/justin-timberlake-palmer-trailer-1105208/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rolling Stone</a>. When he returns, he works a menial janitorial job.
&#8220;After his grandmother’s neighbor skips town,&#8221; writes Rolling Stone, &#8220;Palmer finds himself taking care of her young son, 7-year-old son Sam (Ryder Allen), who is exploring the contours of gender much to the discomfort of his classmates and teachers. What follows is an inspiring story of two outsiders bonded by the belief that you can determine your own future.&#8221;
The trailer suggests both Palmer and Sam are met with contempt from the town&#8217;s residents for being different. &#8220;Listen to me, son,&#8221; Palmer explains to Sam at one point. &#8220;Kids are mean, especially when they see something that they ain&#8217;t used to seeing.&#8221; An image of Sam being bullied at school is juxtaposed with Palmer walking through a church as a judgmental parishioner glares at him from his pew.
In another scene, Palmer explains to Sam that boys are not on TV shows about fairy princesses, to which Sam responds by saying that he &#8220;could be the first.&#8221; The next shot shows Palmer taking Sam trick-or-treating as a fairy princess.
&#8220;Justin and Fisher bring a resonant perspective to this emotional story,&#8221; co-producers and SK Global co-CEOs John Penotti and Charlie Corwin told <a href="https://deadline.com/2019/09/justin-timberlake-to-star-in-fisher-stevens-sk-global-pic-palmer-1202713256/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Deadline</a> in 2019. &#8220;It is both timely and ultimately a hopeful, entertaining story about the resilience and power of human kindness.&#8221;
&#8220;First look at #PALMER directed by Fisher Stevens (script by Cheryl Guerriero),&#8221; Timberlake tweeted Thursday, along with the trailer. &#8220;This story is really important to me and I’m proud to be part of it. Coming to @AppleTV JAN 29[.]&#8221;
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First look at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PALMER?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PALMER</a> directed by Fisher Stevens (script by Cheryl Guerriero). This story is really important to me and I’m proud to be part of it. Coming to <a href="https://twitter.com/AppleTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AppleTV</a> JAN 29 🙏🏻 <a href="https://t.co/hNA1Af11wG">pic.twitter.com/hNA1Af11wG</a>
&mdash; Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/1339590791560237057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The film&#8217;s screenplay, written by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cheryl-Guerriero/e/B06ZZVH8JM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lesbian author</a> Cheryl Guerriero, was on &#8220;<a href="https://blcklst.com/about/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Black List</a>&#8221; in 2016, which is an annual survey of hundreds of film executives regarding which unproduced screenplays they liked most that year.
The issue of transgender and gender non-conforming children is apparently becoming increasingly important to Hollywood. A day after actress Ellen Page was widely lauded for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/juno-star-ellen-page-im-a-transgender-man-named-elliot" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">claiming to be a transgender man named Elliot</a> earlier this month, children&#8217;s network Nickelodeon rolled out a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-rolls-out-trans-youth-acting-challenge-with-transgender-actor">trans youth acting challenge</a>.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire reported:
<blockquote>Nickelodeon is joining with one of its transgender actors to roll out a “trans youth acting challenge” for young people who identify as trans or nonbinary and want to pursue an acting career.
The network for children is working with actor Michael D. Cohen for the project, who played a character named Schwoz in the show “Henry Danger,” which aired from 2014 to 2020.
Cohen claimed in a 2019 <a href="https://time.com/5590359/actor-michael-d-cohen-gender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">interview</a> with Time magazine to have assumed a male identity two decades ago after having been assigned female at birth.
Since the revelation, Cohen said, “I’ve been getting a lot of DMs and emails from trans kids around the world who, like me when I was a kid, had dreams of becoming an actor. So I went to Nickelodeon and said I really want to help make it possible for these kids to realize their dreams. So together we are partnering to create the ‘Michael D. Cohen Trans Youth Acting Challenge.&#8217;”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nickelodeon-rolls-out-trans-youth-acting-challenge-with-transgender-actor" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nickelodeon Rolls Out ‘Trans Youth Acting Challenge’ With Transgender Actor</a>

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Music icon Justin Timberlake weighed into the current national debate on racial justice in a social media post Monday, arguing for the removal of Confederate monuments and providing his theory on why protests of racism in America are interpreted as &#8220;protesting America itself.&#8221;
On Monday, the world-famous singer shared a post from the ACLU about former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest in which he called for the removal of all Confederate monuments.
&#8220;When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down,&#8221; he tweeted.
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When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself. Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple. 
If we plan to move forward, these confederate monuments must come down. <a href="https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D">https://t.co/j2IgZ8Nr7D</a>
&mdash; Justin Timberlake (@jtimberlake) <a href="https://twitter.com/jtimberlake/status/1280252496288636929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Timberlake&#8217;s post on American white supremacy comes several weeks after he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-black-people-in-america-are-not-safe">declared</a> that &#8220;black people in America are not safe.&#8221;
“The system needs to change… it has repeatedly shown us that Black people in America are not safe. I’ll follow up with more resources and ways to help. Continue to SAY THEIR NAMES. [Black Lives Matter],” said Timberlake.
The characterization of America as a fundamentally white supremacist nation has become a popular talking point since the Black Lives Matter protests took root nationwide.
On July 4, former 49ers quarterback and Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/celebration-of-white-supremacy-colin-kaepernicks-july-4-posts-compared-to-his-pre-anthem-protest-july-4-post">even said</a> that Independence Day was a &#8220;celebration of white supremacy.&#8221;
“Black [people] have been dehumanized, brutalized, criminalized [and] terrorized by America for centuries, [and] are expected to join your commemoration of ‘independence,’ while you enslaved our ancestors,” Kaepernick tweeted. “We reject your celebration of white supremacy [and] look forward to liberation for all.”
Last week, actor Danny Glover said that the police are the guardians of white supremacy.
“We see the actual violence because the police is what it is. It’s the last line of defense for white supremacy. That’s what the police represents. They don’t protect African Americans,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/danny-glover-police-are-the-last-line-of-defense-for-white-supremacy">he said</a>. “You can make an argument that the institutional violence has its roots in so many different ways. The violence that we see now that is acted out on the physical body of George Floyd has been the kind of violence that is engrained within the American idea of its culture, in its own subtlety, since the first Africans were brought here. So it’s 400 years of violence. It’s not just now!”
Jon Stewart, former host of &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jon-stewart-the-police-enforce-segregation">said last month</a> that police effectively serve as the &#8220;border patrol&#8221; of a segregated society.
“The police are, in some respects, a border patrol, and they patrol the border between the two Americas. We have that so that the rest of us don’t have to deal with it. Then that situation erupts, and we express our shock and indignation,” Stewart said. “There’s always this begrudging sense that black people are being granted something, when it’s white people’s lack of being able to live up to the defining words of the birth of the country that is the problem. There’s a lack of recognition of the difference in our system.”

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On Monday, the celebrity-touted Minnesota Freedom Fund (MFF) posted a message online after facing intense backlash over the bail-out charity&#8217;s allocation of funds and lack of transparency.
According to MFF&#8217;s website, the organization has brought in over $30 million in donations since the death of George Floyd. However, only &#8220;well over&#8221; $200,000 in donations — less than 1% of their funds — have actually been used to bail out protesters and rioters.
&#8220;Appreciate all those calling for transparency,&#8221; the fund posted online Monday. &#8220;We see y&#8217;all. Our values and mission have not changed since 2016. Be on the lookout for things coming on our end. Be well.&#8221;
A follow-up tweet read: &#8220;Without jeopardizing the safety of the folks we bailed out we paid well over $200k in the weeks since the uprising alone. We are working on doing more.&#8221;
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Without jeopardizing the safety of the folks we bailed out we paid well over $200k in the weeks since the uprising alone. We are working on doing more.
&mdash; Minnesota Freedom Fund (@MNFreedomFund) <a href="https://twitter.com/MNFreedomFund/status/1272726417650995202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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According to a report from <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-freedom-fund-reveals-only-200000-millions-donations-has-been-spent-bail-out-1511097">Newsweek</a>, many online have &#8220;said that MFF had collected $35 million in donations in recent weeks and spent only a small fraction, prompting &#8217;35 MILLION&#8217; and &#8216;only 200k&#8217; to start trending on Twitter.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not clear exactly how much the fund has raised since protests began, but on the Frequently Asked Questions section of the MFF website, updated earlier this month, it said that more than $30 million had been donated to the fund in the wake of Floyd&#8217;s death,&#8221; the report added.
The post from MFF quickly went viral, racking up thousands of replies from people angered by the lack of transparency:
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SMH people love profiting off of the pain of black folk. Disgusting
&mdash; Mikah AKA Mike Baggz 𓂀 (@MikeBaggz) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeBaggz/status/1272797160065699840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;and the remaining $34,800,000 went where? <a href="https://t.co/A3fJewyB1h">pic.twitter.com/A3fJewyB1h</a>
&mdash; Ashley K. (@AshleyKSmalls) <a href="https://twitter.com/AshleyKSmalls/status/1272744959511322624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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$200K is such a small portion of the 35 million donated. One thing you don&#39;t play with is folk&#39;s money. Better give that shxt back before Black Twitter wakes up <a href="https://t.co/jkfuUIMeJX">pic.twitter.com/jkfuUIMeJX</a>
&mdash; Joey ☝🏾 (@JoeySmith511) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeySmith511/status/1272743557468692481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At the end of May, superstar <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justin-timberlake-ill-help-pay-bail-for-arrested-protesters-ted-cruz-suggests-better-use-of-his-money">Justin Timberlake</a> announced that he&#8217;d be donating to MFF, hoping to bail out rioters.
“Please join me in supporting the Minneapolis protestors by donating to the @mnfreedomfund,” he tweeted. “The freedom fund is combating the harms of incarceration by paying bail for low income individuals who cannot otherwise afford: minnesoatafreedomfund.org.”
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As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-trump-and-keep-going-teigen-carell-other-celebs-posting-bail-for-rioters">The Daily Wire</a>, other celebrities, like Steve Carell, Seth Rogan, Janelle Monae, Ben Schwartz, and Don Cheadle also chipped in $1,000 each for suspected criminal rioters in Minneapolis by donating to MFF.
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Protests started to pop-up across the nation last month following the death of Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck during an arrest, a moment captured on video.
However, things quickly turned ugly; arson, looting, and violence spiked in places like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York City, Rochester, and other cities.
Since Floyd&#8217;s passing, all four officers involved in the arrest have been fired, investigations from the FBI and state law enforcement have been opened, and the officer at the center of the incident was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder; the three other officers involved have since been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/03/us/george-floyd-officers-charges/index.html">charged</a>, too.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-trump-and-keep-going-teigen-carell-other-celebs-posting-bail-for-rioters">‘F*** TRUMP AND KEEP GOING’: Teigen, Carell, Other Celebs Posting Bail For Rioters</a>
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