Amongst the bombshells dropped in Britney Spears‘ newly released memoir The Woman In Me, the pop star has come for Christina Aguilera.
In a snippet of the tell-all novel, Spears, 41, slammed her pop rival for her 2003 collaboration with her her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake a year on from the duo’s split.
Timberlake and Aguilera’s jointly kicked off their The Justified & Stripped Tour and posed together in a raunchy Rolling Stone cover while promoting the tour, a move which left Spears feeling betrayed.
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“They were together on the cover of Rolling Stone, him in a black tank top, looking at her with sexy eyes, her looking out at the camera, wearing a lace-up black shirt,” the Grammy winner wrote.
“In that story, she said she thought Justin and I should get back together, which was just confusing, given how negative she’d been elsewhere.”
Friendship between the talented trio had originally formed in 1993 when they were kids acting on the set of The Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club.
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Spears noted that: “Even if they weren’t trying to be cruel, it felt like they were just pouring salt in the wound.”
“Why was it so easy for everyone to forget that I was a human being – vulnerable enough that these headlines could leave a bruise?” she added.
Despite her relationship with Timberlake ending in 2001, her new memoir also releases new claims about their romance.
The Toxic singer claims that during their romance she fell pregnant with his baby and underwent an abortion shortly after, labelling the experience one of the “most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”.
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As for her relationship with Aguilera, this isn’t the first time tension in the friendship has been aired.
While working together as kids, the duo shared a dressing room and their friendship was admired by many as they independently rose to fame, however comments in the media targeted at each other created some instability for the pair.
Most recently, Spears made comments about Aguilera’s dancers’ weights, leading to the Genie in a Bottle singer unfollowing the star on Instagram.
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