{"id":68547,"date":"2023-10-18T22:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/?p=68547"},"modified":"2023-10-18T22:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T22:23:11","slug":"watch-britney-spears-emotionally-respond-to-cry-me-a-river-in-2003-and-actually-defend-justin-timberlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celeband.com\/celebrities\/watch-britney-spears-emotionally-respond-to-cry-me-a-river-in-2003-and-actually-defend-justin-timberlake\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Britney Spears Emotionally Respond To Cry Me A River In 2003 &#8211; And Actually DEFEND Justin Timberlake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong>Britney Spears<\/strong>&#8216; new memoir we&#8217;re finally getting her full side of the story of the\u00a0<strong>Justin Timberlake<\/strong> relationship &#8212; what was maybe the most scrutinized love affair between two 19-year-olds ever in history.<\/p>\n<p>But this is far from the first time we got a glimpse! Brit was asked about the breakup way back in 2003 by one other than\u00a0<strong>Diane Sawyer<\/strong> in a sitdown for\u00a0<em>ABC Primetime<\/em>! First up she was asked about JT&#8217;s claims that\u00a0<em>she<\/em> had done something to break his heart, to which she responded:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was upset. I was upset for a while, we both&#8230; I think we were both really young, and it was kind of waiting to happen. And I will always love him, he&#8217;ll always have a special place in my heart. He&#8217;s such a great person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the veteran newswoman pushes on the accusation that she cheated, Britney says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think everyone has a side of their story&#8230; I&#8217;m not technically saying he&#8217;s wrong, but I&#8217;m not technically saying he&#8217;s right either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she evades the question. But she isn&#8217;t just protecting herself here. It&#8217;s so clear right from the start of this line of questioning that she&#8217;s trying to protect him, too!<\/p>\n<p>When Diane asks her to react to the\u00a0<em>Cry Me A River<\/em> video, the one which we&#8217;ve heard &#8220;really sent her over the edge,&#8221; she actually kind of defends him!<\/p>\n<p>She reveals in the interview he asked her about the video in advance, but &#8212; as Sawyer words it, she &#8220;couldn&#8217;t think fast enough to object.&#8221; And so she was &#8220;stunned&#8221; to see what&#8217;s described as a &#8220;recreation of their breakup.&#8221; We of course know what happens in the video, how he breaks into his ex&#8217;s home and films a sex tape, which he leaves playing for her while she&#8217;s in the shower.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DksSPZTZES0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s completely savage, the type of revenge you&#8217;d get on someone you truly hated. So how did Britney react?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw it, I was on vacation and someone called me and told me it was gonna come on, and I watched it, and I was just like&#8230; I was kind of in denial, I went through this whole denial phase.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A denial phase? Um, you mean the first phase in grieving a death?? It&#8217;s so clear how much it hurt the poor girl. But Britney immediately jumps back to protecting JT, saying:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fine, that&#8217;s the way he&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to judge him or anything like that because that&#8217;s the way he had to deal with what happened. And you know, and that&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine?? Remember, this is the revenge video he made AFTER she got pregnant with his baby, wanted to have it, but got an abortion because he wasn&#8217;t ready. He should have been so much more respectful of her. For, like, <em>ever<\/em>. And yet she&#8217;s saying she understands!<\/p>\n<p>She does\u00a0<em>not<\/em>, however, say could do that to someone. She continues:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just know that if I was in a relationship and something happened, I just- I couldn&#8217;t really go there. But it&#8217;s all good. Let&#8217;s talk about something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>OMG it is so written all over her face how this is breaking her heart all over again! And yet she&#8217;s defending Justin! Because her heart was so big she still wanted to protect him? Wow. Would you be able to stay this sweet?<\/p>\n<p>See the full interview, starting with the Justin stuff (below)!<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Britney Spears - Interview with Diane Sawyer @ ABC Primetime (2003) \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FyI6PTuLYgw?start=1478&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/perezhilton.com\/britney-spears-responds-justin-timberlake-cry-me-a-river-video-2003-diane-sawyer-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Britney Spears&#8216; new memoir we&#8217;re finally getting her full side of the story of the\u00a0Justin Timberlake relationship &#8212; what was maybe the most scrutinized love affair between two 19-year-olds ever in history. 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