Was The Pregnancy Why Justin Timberlake's Cry Me A River Video Sent Britney Spears 'Over The Edge'?!
18.10.2023 - 00:57
/ perezhilton.com
A couple years back, when we as a culture were revisiting how Britney Spears had been treated, a close confidant of hers dished on just how bad Justin Timberlake had hurt her. Now we have a whole new context for that pain.
We’re talking now of course about the revelation in Brit’s memoir, The Woman In Me, that she got pregnant with Justin’s baby in late 2000. The 19-year-old let Justin talk her into getting an abortion — though she really wanted to have the child. She wrote with tangible regret over the decision:
Yeah. Wow.
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Naturally the reveal has fans rethinking everything that happened with the couple — including their rough breakup. It seems especially cruel what JT did to her in the aftermath.
We’re speaking of course about the breakup banger Cry Me A River. In the revenge-fueled music video, Justin sneaks into the home of an ex while she’s out with a new guy — and makes a sex tape on her bed. He then briefly spies on the Britney lookalike in the shower before leaving the vid playing on her TV for her to see.
Julianne Kaye, Britney’s makeup artist from 1999 to 2004, spoke about the effect that video had on her in a 2021 episode of the We Need To Talk About Britney podcast. She said:
Yeah, it clearly did what it was designed to do! It was particularly painful for Britney because, Julianne said, JT knew exactly how to hurt her most and went for it:
And to know he did this after she had gone through such a devastating sacrifice for him. Even if they didn’t work out in the end, even if they really did get messy as hell and cheat on each other by the end of the relationship, he should have treated her with so much more respect afterward. If just for