Cassie Carpenter and Connie Rusk for Mailonline
11:16 20 Oct 2023, updated 11:34 20 Oct 2023
Britney Spears has claimed that her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake slept with “six or seven” women in the weeks following their split.
The 41-year-old singer reflects on her relationship with Justin, 42, in her memoir, The Woman in Me.
Britney and Justin dated from 1999-2002 after they both became child stars while starring on The Mickey Mouse Club back in the early nineties.
In an excerpt obtained by TIME, Britney said Justin quickly moved on and opened up about his short-lived romance with Colin Farrell following their split.
Britney said she was devastated after Justin slept with “six or seven girls” in the weeks following their split.
She said: “He was a girl’s dream. I was in love with him.”
After Justin’s relationship with Britney, he began an affair with Cameron Diaz.
They met a year after his split from Britney when she presented him with the award for best burp at the 2003 Kids Choice Awards.
She was then 31 years old, and he was 22 years old. They dated for almost four years.
MailOnline has contacted representatives for Britney and Justin for comment.
Britney said she was not over her ex-boyfriend when she met Colin, 47, through a “club promoter friend” before visiting him on the set of his 2003 film SWAT.
They had a short-lived affair, which she said was passionate and the likes of a street fight.
“As before, when I felt too attached to a man, I tried in every way to convince myself that there was nothing wrong with this, that we were just having fun, that in this case I was vulnerable because I was not finished with Justin yet,” – Britney wrote.
“For a brief moment I thought there might be something there. Disappointment in my romantic life was just part of how isolated I had become. I felt so awkward all the time.”
Britney opens up about her failed romance with Justin in her tell-all memoir and the “agonizing” decision to have an abortion after falling pregnant.
The singer said she became pregnant with Justin’s child in 2000, but had an abortion because the N*Sync star “didn’t want to be a father.”
The star said that although she wanted a child and “dreamed of having a family” with Timberlake, he “wasn’t ready” for parenthood and thought the couple was too young.
In an excerpt obtained by People, she writes: “It was a surprise, but for me it’s not a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected that one day we would have a family. It’s just going to happen a lot sooner than I expected.
“He said we weren’t ready to have a baby, that we were too young. I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby.
“I don’t know if it was the right decision. If it had been left to me alone, I would never have done it. And yet Justin was so sure he didn’t want to be a father.”
Spears later shares sons Sean Preston, 18, and Jaden, 17, with Kevin Federline, while Timberlake has sons Silas, eight, and Phineas, two, with wife Jessica Biel.
On July 24, The Sun reported that Timberlake and Colin’s lawyers had threatened legal action, causing the release of Britney’s book to be delayed by four months.
“The lawyers demanded to see her book in advance and were adamant that some of the revelations were removed,” a source told the publication.
“There are many more amazing stories, but Justin and Colin knew exactly what to say about them. The legal battle meant that publication was delayed for four months while discussions took place about what could be included. But now this issue has finally been resolved, and her autobiography is ready for publication.”
The Woman in Me, which has already topped Amazon’s best-seller list, will not contain any details about Spears’ split from third husband Sam Asghari, who filed for divorce from her on August 16 after 14 months of marriage.
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives from Timberlake, Spears and Simon & Schuster for comment.