Justin Timberlake Finally Responds To Britney Spears Rumor Thats Been Running Wild For Decades

LOADINGERROR LOADINGJustin Timberlake has rejected the longstanding rumor that his 2006 hit song “What Goes Around… Comes Around” was written about one of his most famous exes.Fans long believed that the tune from his album “FutureSex/LoveSounds” was about his ex-girlfriend, Britney Spears.

The rumors went on for years despite the fact that the song was released more than four years after the famous couple’s messy split.Advertisement Timberlake and Spears dated from 1999 to 2002.

“Maybe I should dispel a rumor at this point, which has gone around forever, which is like, it’s not a personal story from mine,” Timberlake, 45, said on Complex’s “Re-Rank” YouTube series.“It’s actually a personal story from a friend’s.

I asked permission.”The singer said he was inspired to write the song after his friend opened up to him about a rough breakup he was facing.He did not name the friend.

“He was just going through it, and he was telling me what had happened and I said, ‘Do you mind if I write about this?’ And I quote, my friend said, ‘Yeah, torch that bitch.What goes around comes around,’” Timberlake recalled.

Advertisement Timberlake said his creative juices instantly began flowing so he quickly ended his chat with his friend so he could write the song.“I was like, ‘I have to go.

Thank you,’” he recalled telling his friend.“This song was written in, I mean, damn near 20 minutes.

Like, it was just flowing.The interlude that goes with it ...

and then you put the video with it, there’s a 10-minute video we shot for it, like this just hit on all cylinders for me.”Fans jumped to conclusions that the popular track about betrayal and karma was a dig at Spears considering Timberlake suggested in a 2006 GQ interview that his 2002 hit song “Cry Me a River” was inspired by his breakup with Spears.Advertisement Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake were widely viewed as one of the most...