Britney Spears admitted in her upcoming memoir “The Woman In Me” that while she was dating Justin Timberlake she did cheat on him with choreographer Wade Robson — confirming longtime rumors about unfaithfulness in their relationship.
The 41-year-old pop singer confessed she “made out” and danced through the night with Robson when the two ended up at a Spanish bar while she was still in a relationship with Timberlake, Page Six reported.
“We were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar,” Spears wrote. “We danced and danced. I made out with him that night.”
The “Toxic” hitmaker said the couple “agreed to move past” her infidelity because she had otherwise been “loyal to Justin” for years and “only had eyes for him.”
However, the “Womanizer” hitmaker suggested in her memoir that her cheating had more to do with feeling she was at a “breaking point” in her relationship with the former Mickey Mouse Club member over rumors of his unfaithfulness, the New York Times noted.
“I felt like I had been exploited,” the pop singer wrote. “Set up in front of the whole world.”
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In the book, Spears accused the 42-year-old singer of cheating on her while they were dating with “another celebrity,” but she said she wouldn’t name the person because she’s now “married with children.”
At the time, fans believed Timberlake was involved with singer Nicole Appleton — after the two got caught by paparrazzi in the back of a car together after a night out in London in 2000.
Appleton shares son Gene, 22, with her ex-husband, Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher. She has since remarried Stephen Haines and shares 3-year-old daughter Skipper with him, Page Six noted.
Spears and Timberlake dated from 1999 — when she was 17 and he was 18 — until 2002, Variety noted.
In 2003, Timberlake released his hit song “Cry Me A River,” which features a look-a-like Spears in the music video, and it has long been believed the song was about Britney cheating on him.
Ahead of the release of the memoir, the “Gimme More” hitmaker made several other revelations, including that she got pregnant with Timberlake’s child and agreed at his request to get an abortion, claiming the actor “didn’t want to be a father.”
Spears wrote that if it had been left up to her alone, she never would have aborted the baby, but added that Timberlake said they were “too young” to have a baby, People magazine reported.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” the pop star wrote. “I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.”
“But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy,” she added. “He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”