It was the artist who revealed that he wrote the lyrics to her popular song after ending his love story with the pop princess in the worst way.
Britney Spears is giving something to talk about with the revelations of her autobiographical book, The Woman in Me, which will soon be on sale. Recently a very shocking one came to light that features her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.
The artists met in 1992, when they were just children and participated in the program The Mickey Mouse Club. But their love story began a few years later, in 1998, when the pop princess accompanied NSYNC on a tour. That trip allowed them to get to know each other more from another perspective and as adults, and they ended up falling in love.
Their relationship was a volcano. Although at first they tried to keep the bond private and away from the cameras, in their first appearance as a couple, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake became the favorite match of the decade. That happened at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000.
They were together for two years and their relationship ended in the worst way. But now it was learned that during that time, the American performer had become pregnant by the singer and, since he did not want to be a father, she decided to have an abortion. "Justin was decidedly not happy about the pregnancy. He said that we were not ready for a baby in our lives, that we were too young," were the words of Britney Spears.
At that time they were under 21 years old and in the prime of their careers. However, the pop princess admitted that she would have started a family with Justin Timberlake and that she never considered that pregnancy a tragedy.
The truth is that the relationship between the couple did not end in the best way and when they did, the singer and actor wrote a very popular song for his girlfriend. This is Cry Me a River, considered one of her best creations. "You were my sun. You were my land, but you didn't know all the ways I loved you," says part of the lyrics that talk about infidelity.
It was Justin Timberlake himself who confirmed the theory in his autobiography, Hindsight: And All the Things I Can't See in Front of Me, published in 2018. There he stated that it took him only a couple of hours to write it because of all the emotions that was feeling when he found out that his girlfriend had been unfaithful and ended the relationship.
