To Spears, hindsight revealed just how similar her connections with and treatments from Timberlake and Federline really were.
“He would hold me as long as I wanted to be held.
Had anyone in my life ever done that before?
If so, I couldn’t remember when.”
And indeed, Spears' retelling of her relationship with Justin Timberlake suggests their connection was more about lust.
She recalled Justin Timberlake growing distant from her while recording his first solo album, “Justified.”
Indeed,Timberlake’s ego seemingly took over after his split with Spears.
And unfortunately, the heartbroken Spears would enter a similar fame-grabbing, toxic relationship soon after.
“Kevin [Federline] was just so enthralled with the fame and the power.
Spears blames the dancer’s obsession with fame for why they divorced in 2006.
“Looking back, I think that both Justin and Kevin were very clever.
They knew what they were doing, and I played right into it,” Spears wrote.
Spears' memoir points out that both men were allowed to behave in ways that she wasn’t.
“I was being watched from every corner,” she wrote.
I came home from a night at the clubs, and my own mother tore into me.
It made me scared to do anything.
My family made me feel paralyzed.”
