Britney Spears Seemingly Responds to Justin Timberlake’s ’No Disrespect’ Disclaimer After His Las Vegas Show

Mar. 15, 2025

Britney Spears (L) and Justin Timberlake (R) at a celebrity basketball game on July 29, 2001.Photo:Ethan Miller/Getty

Ethan Miller/Getty

Britney Spearsseemingly referred to her exJustin Timberlakein her latestInstagram post.

The post was published two days after Timberlakesaid “no disrespect"before singing his 2002 song “Cry Me a River"in front of a star-studded crowdat the opening ofthe Fontainebleau in Las Vegason Wednesday.

Spears shared a clip of a leopard standing between two pole-dancing men and a man standing upside down against a wall.

Justin Timberlake performs onstage during the Fontainebleau Las Vegas Star-Studded Grand Opening Celebration on December 13, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for Fontainebleau Las Vegas

Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for Fontainebleau Las Vegas

In the caption, she wrote, “Oh Jesus Christ, the stories … I could tell on the set of this one☝🏻 !!! There’s always more to the story and that’s not even half of it !!! It was shot in Arizona 120 degree heat 🥵 … 2 different version videos were shot for this song … most boys say “OH I’M SHOOK”!!! Psss I never mentioned how I beat him in basketball 🏀 and he would cry … no disrespect 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ !!!”

Spears and Timberlake, 42, famouslywore matching jerseysfeaturing their nicknames for each other, Pinky and Stinky, during*NSYNC’sthird annual Challenge for the Childrencharity event in July 2001.

Although they dated from 1999 to 2002, their relationship has been making headlines since Spears' memoirThe Woman in Mewas released.

Britney Spears & Justin Timberlake of NSYNC at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA.Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage

Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage

“It is finally time for me to raise my voiceand speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me. No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present and future,” she told PEOPLE before its release in October.

She also wrote about “Cry Me a River"and its music video, saying that it caused her to look like a “harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy” to the public while she was “comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood.”

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While Timberlake has not confirmed that Spears was the source of inspiration for the track, he previously wrote in his memoir, 2018’sHindsight: & All the Things I Can’t See in Front of Me,that hewrote it after feeling “scorned.”

“I’ve been scorned. I’ve been pissed off. I wrote ‘Cry Me a River’ in two hours. I didn’t plan on writing it,” he wrote.

source: people.com