“He Didn’t Want To Be A Father”

Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in a throwback. (Image courtesy: AFP)

Britney Spears says in her eagerly anticipated new memoir that she had an abortion throughout her relationship with Justin Timberlake over 20 years in the past, in line with an excerpt launched Tuesday. It is one in all a number of revelations in The Woman in Me, out October 24, by which the 41-year-old pop star additionally addresses the controversial conservatorship that barred her from dealing with her personal life and funds for 14 years.

“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she writes of the abortion, in an excerpt printed by People journal on Tuesday. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

In the guide, Britney Spears describes assembly Timberlake after they have been each youngsters performing in Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club.

They later started relationship of their late teenagers, changing into one of many leisure trade’s highest profile {couples}, earlier than splitting in 2002.

According to the memoir, Timberlake “definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. “He mentioned we weren’t able to have a child in our lives, that we have been approach too younger,” she writes.

She adds: “To at the present time, it is some of the agonizing issues I’ve ever skilled in my life.”

Representatives for Timberlake, now 42 and married to actor Jessica Biel, did not immediately respond to request for comment. Following the split with Timberlake, Spears had two sons – Sean and Jayden – with her second husband Kevin Federline.

In 2008, after suffering a highly public breakdown, Spears was placed under a unique legal guardianship largely governed by her father, Jamie. During a court appearance in 2021, she told a judge that the conservatorship was preventing her from removing a contraceptive IUD – despite her wanting to get pregnant.

“The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a baby,” says Spears, in another excerpt. She also writes: “I believe again now on my father and his associates having management over my physique and my cash for that lengthy and it makes me really feel sick.”

The guardianship was scrapped in November 2021. Spears grew to become pregnant in 2022, however later introduced she had suffered a miscarriage.

In August, her third husband, Sam Asghari, mentioned the pair have been submitting for divorce.

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