Britney Spears shared with PEOPLE details in her memoir including that Justin Timberlake really didn’t want to be a dad.
In the upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, the pop star admitted that when she dated Justin Timberlake, she became pregnant with his baby but had an abortion.
“It 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,” Spears writes of the pregnancy in the book. “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 writes in the book: “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 writes of her experience undergoing the abortion: “To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
Spears and Timberlake had a big split in 2002 and the couple had a pact since the split and had moved on.
The memoir comes nearly two years after Spears was released from her court-ordered conservatorship, which had been in place for 13 years. The conservatorship was terminated in November 2021 after Spears gave fervent public testimony in court in June 2021.
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Promising to reveal “for the first time her incredible journey (and) strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history,” according to a press release from Gallery Books, the singer’s memoir “illuminates the enduring power of music and love — and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms.”
As previously reported from What’s Trending, Timberlake has been on edge about the memoir with sources claiming ‘it’s eating him alive.’
Spears will release her much-anticipated memoir on Oct. 24, through Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
There are many new details coming out about the pop star including her reflections on life moments like the VMAs, her relationship with her mother, and even more details regarding the relationship with Timberlake.
