Why Did JT Remark feel sorry about to Britney Spears? A Timeline of Their Americaand Downs

Alexa, play “Bawl Me a River” by Justin Timberlake. Then, cue up “Everytime” by Britney Spears.

Timberlake and Spears may maybe presumably just have called it quits two a protracted time ago, however followers are aloof invested of their rocky romance — specifically after the liberate of The Original York Times Offers’ “Framing Britney Spears” episode in February 2021.

The smartly-liked boybander and pop princess met in the early ’90s whereas filming The Mickey Mouse Club. In 1999, as their careers skyrocketed, Timberlake and Spears confirmed that they had been relationship.

“With him, it’s aloof the the same as I felt two years ago. Nonetheless it’s a deeper love now than after I became as soon as youthful,” Spears gushed to The Observer in 2001. “Like, we’ve long passed by so grand together and we’ve identified every various since we had been 12 years ragged. All of us know every various inner and out.”

That same year, the “Oops! … I Did It One more time” songstress confirmed Timberlake became as soon as the one who pursued her.

“He surely requested me out. We had been doing a radio prove, and this became as soon as sooner than ‘…Toddler One Extra Time’ came out … He knocks on the door and is esteem, ‘Can I see Britney?’” she recalled on Rich & Smartly-known. “And [my assistant] Felicia [Culotta] didn’t know who he became as soon as and she became as soon as esteem, ‘No. Who are you?’ And I became as soon as esteem, ‘No! It’s Justin!’”

Whereas the twosome often gushed about every various — and infamously rocked matching denim outfits on the 2001 American Music Awards — their relationship came to an consequence in early 2002. Their split like a flash grew to develop to be messy after Timberlake released his song, “Bawl Me a River,” and spread out about their relationship to Barbara Walters.

“Sure,” Timberlake paradoxically replied at some point of the 20/20 interview when requested whether Spears, who beforehand mentioned she planned to wait to have intercourse till marriage, aloof had “correct morals.”

All over a radio interview that very same year, Timberlake replied, “OK, I did it,” when requested if he “f—ked” Spears.

Amid allegations that Spears cheated on Timberlake, she apparently answered in her 2003 ballad, “Everytime,” singing, “I may maybe presumably just have made it rain / Please forgive me / My weak point caused you agonize / And this song’s my sorry.”

2021’s “Framing Britney Spears,” which explored the pop smartly-known person’s conservatorship fight with father Jamie Spears and the #FreeBritney movement, featured ragged clips of Timberlake and Britney’s put up-split interviews and media protection. Fans due to this truth flooded the “SexyBack” crooner’s social media pages, asking him to explicit feel sorry about for the usage of her to birth his solo career.

Scroll by for a timeline of Spears and Timberlake’s united statesand downs: