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We guess killing two birds with one notes app apology was too convenient to pass up.
I benefitted from a system that condones misogyny and racism, he wrote at the time.
Spearss newmemoir,The Woman in Me, doesnt make him look much better.
In fact, he looks worse.
He wouldnt even have to say anything or do anything for me to feel close to him.
Timberlake ended their three-year relationship by text message in 2002.
Heres a few reasons why he may want to leave the past in the past.
A Janet Jackson song was playing in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.
Pretty soon I realized that I was head over heels in love with him, she writes.
So in love with him it was pathetic.
Eventually, they lived together in Orlando.
I was so happy.
She had to put up with Justins AAVE
NSYNC was what people back then called so pimp.
They were white boys, but they loved hip-hop, Spears remembers.
NSYNC hung out with Black artists.
Sometimes I thought they tried too hard to fit in.
J got all excited and said, so loud, Oh yeah, fo shiz, fo shiz!
Whats up, homie?
Spearss longtime friend and assistant, Felicia Culotta, mocked him, but J wasnt even embarrassed.
He just took it and looked at her like,Okay, fuck you, Fe.
He was embarrassing her from the beginning, I fear.
But I never said anything.
I dont want her to feel bad.
Justin came into the bathroom and lay on the floor with me, sheremembersin her memoir.
She had go back out and dance after receiving the message in between takes.
Justin Timberlake, a pioneer of the text message breakup.
Mind you, it is 2002.
When he left me I wasdevastated, Spears writes.
She was barely able to speakfor months and could only cry when anyone asked her about him.
I dont know if I was clinically in shock, but it felt that way.
Timberlake turned up at her doorstep with a framed breakup letter.
Britney still keeps it under her bed.
While Spears was holed up in Louisiana to recover from the breakup, Timberlake flew out to visit.
He brought her a long letter that she still has under her bed.
Those are the last words in it, she writes.
It almost felt like I was suffocating, like I couldnt breathe, after all that had happened.
I understood the infatuation people had with him.
Spears liked that Timberelake discussed their sex life in public.
What she didnt like was being portrayed as the harlot.
Was I mad at being outed by him as sexually active?
No, she writes.
To be honest with you, I liked that Justin said that.
Whose business was it if Id had sex or not?
It was her negative depiction in Cry Me a River and the media that was troubling.
I was described as a harlot whod broken the heart of Americas golden boy.
The truth: I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood.
Worse, he used a false narrative to give his album purpose: shit-talking an unfaithful woman.
Timberlake has a lot to be concerned about indeed.
Could a second notes app apology be imminent?
