Justin Timberlake is receiving some grace after the memoir of his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears produced a litany of unfavourable claims towards him.
Amongst different causes, Timberlake went viral earlier this 12 months when the audiobook model of Spears’ memoir noticed actor Michelle Williams recreate an exaggerated voice Timberlake allegedly used when assembly singer Ginuwine, who’s Black.
Along with claims that Timberlake cheated on Spears and urged her to get an abortion, Spears writes that Timberlake “tried too exhausting to slot in” with the Black entertainers in his orbit. A type of situations allegedly concerned the “Pony” singer in New York Metropolis.
“In the future J and I have been in New York, going to elements of city I’d by no means been to earlier than,” Williams learn from Spears’ memoir, “The Lady in Me.” “Strolling our method was a man with an enormous, blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two large safety guards.”
“J acquired all excited and stated so loud: ‘Oh yeah, fo’ shiz fo’ shiz, Ginuwine, what’s up homie?’” she continued in Timberlake’s purported African American Vernacular English accent, which impressed mockery on-line when the audiobook was launched in October.
Sources informed “Leisure Tonight” on the time that Timberlake was “specializing in his family and attempting to not concern himself with Britney’s memoir.” Now, Ginuwine has lastly heard concerning the second going viral — and says Timberlake is “cool.”
“Nah, I don’t keep in mind that,” the singer informed Billboard by laughter in an interview Thursday.
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“I’d have most likely checked out him very bizarre if he did that like she stated,” continued Ginuwine, whose actual title is Elgin Lumpkin. “I simply don’t keep in mind that, however I keep in mind him being a cool dude and me kicking it down there in Florida with [*NSYNC’s] producer at one time.”
In 2002, Timberlake famously broke up with Spears after three years collectively, and launched his debut solo album. Spears wrote in her memoir that his most controversial single, “Cry Me a River,” portrayed her like a “harlot who’d damaged the guts of America’s golden boy.”
Timbaland, who produced the track, not too long ago apologised for saying Timberlake ought to’ve put a “muzzle” on her. Spears endured a 13-year conservatorship beneath the purview of her father, however noticed it terminated in 2021 amid an impassioned “#FreeBritney” marketing campaign on social media.