Britney Spears says she had an abortion whereas relationship Justin Timberlake greater than 20 years in the past.

The revelation got here from an excerpt of the US pop star’s upcoming memoir – a number of extracts which had been revealed on Tuesday by People journal.

In the excerpt, Spears described the being pregnant as a “surprise”, however wrote: “For me, it wasn’t a tragedy.

“But Justin undoubtedly wasn’t blissful in regards to the being pregnant. He mentioned we weren’t able to have a child in our lives, that we had been manner too younger.

“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it.”

She additionally described the abortion as “one of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”.

Sky News has reached out to representatives for Spears and Timberlake for remark.

Spears, a prolific person of social media, has not posted to Instagram or X, previously referred to as Twitter, because the People journal story was revealed.

The singer was 17 when she began relationship then NSYNC star, Timberlake, in 1999. The pair had been collectively till 2002.

It is unclear from the excerpts when the being pregnant occurred.

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Spears went on to have two kids with the rapper and dancer Kevin Federline, who she married in 2004.

However, she was later positioned underneath a court-ordered conservatorship – largely underneath the supervision of her father Jamie Spears – after public breakdowns.

The controversial legal arrangement ruled Spears’ life for greater than 13 years, permitting her father to regulate her freedom and funds.

It led to late 2021 after a swelling #FreeBritney motion that helped safe new limits on conservatorships in California.

Her tell-all memoir, titled The Woman In Me, will probably be revealed in October.

According to the ebook’s writer, it will likely be a “brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope”.

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The ebook deal – reported to be value as a lot as $15m (£11m) – can even cowl the singer’s battle to finish her conservatorship.

Announcing the ebook in July, she wrote in a put up on social media: “It’s coming, my story, on my terms, at last.”

Its publication comes simply months after the 41-year-old’s divorce from Sam Asghari was introduced.

The pair married in June final 12 months at her dwelling in Los Angeles in a ceremony the place the visitors included Madonna and Drew Barrymore.