A video from 2007 of Justin Timberlake seemingly warning his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears to 'stop drinking' has gone viral following his DWI arrest.
The video captures Timberlake, 43, accepting a Brit Award in a pre-recorded speech, 'Stop drinking. You know who you are. I'm speaking to you. Stop drinking, you're going to get sloppy. OK! is going to say something bad about you.'
Spears was under heavy scrutiny at the time of his remarks and infamously shaved her head just two days after the awards show.
But Timberlake subsequently insisted the remarks weren't about Spears in an interview with GQ, and a representative for the Cry Me A River singer said he was merely referencing 'people in the crowd, no one in particular,' according to Fox News.
But many have interpreted the remarks to be about Spears, and the video resurfaced in light of his own arrest for DWI.
A video from 2007 of Justin Timberlake seemingly warning his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears to 'stop drinking' has gone viral following his DWI arrest
Fans weighed in on the video on X, with one person tweeting: 'And 17 years later, it ended up being him eating his own words, you reap what you sow.'
'As we learned from the religious, hypocrites make the very best scolds,' another posted.
'That didn't age well,' one observed.
Another cited his song What Goes Around... Comes Around: 'He should listen to his own song.'
'Karma has been served,' one tweeted.
Spears dated Timberlake from 1999 to 2002.
Timberlake has been feeling the wrath of Britney fans for the last few years, particularly following the release of her 2023 memoir The Woman In Me.
The book contained a series of explosive revelations about their romance: revealing he urged her to have an abortion when she fell pregnant and that he made her look like a 'harlot who’d broken the heart of America's golden boy'.
Timberlake was trolled by Spears fans as her side of the story finally came out two decades on and The Britney Army have continued to support her now.
In January her fans sent her 2011 song Selfish back up the charts after her ex dropped his new single with the same name.
The video captures Timberlake accepting a Brit Award and telling the camera, 'Stop drinking. You know who you are. I'm speaking to you. Stop drinking, you're going to get sloppy. OK! is going to say something bad about you.'
The video resurfaced on X and fans weighed in on the remarks
Selfish (Justin's version) was the lead single on his new album Everything I Thought It Was, his first studio album since 2018's Man Of The Woods.
Spears made multiple accusations against her ex Justin in her 2023 memoir The Woman In Me, including criticizing his 2002 track Cry Me a River for how it made her look.
When they split his career soared. Albums and songs were promoted under the narrative that Spears broke his heart.
In the music video for Cry Me A River, he even used a Spears lookalike and she was vilified for their break-up.
Spears dated Timberlake from 1999 to 2002; pictured 2002
In 2018 Timberlake said he was so emotional following his split from Spears that he unloaded his feelings by writing Cry Me a River in just two hours.
Yet in her 2023 memoir, Spears revealed she got pregnant by Timberlake in 2000 with the singer undergoing an abortion because the N*Sync star 'didn't want to be a father.'
The Toxic hitmaker detailed the 'agonizing' decision to terminate the pregnancy after conceiving in late 2000 when the pair were both 19.
The star claimed while she wanted the baby and 'dreamed of having a family' with Timberlake, he 'wasn't ready' for the responsibilities of parenthood and thought the pair were too young.
She wrote: 'It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.
'He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby.
Timberlake has been feeling the wrath of Britney fans for the last few years, particularly following the release of her 2023 memoir The Woman In Me
'I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.'
It was also claimed in the book Spears reveals she was raised 'not to get an abortion' due to religious reasons and what she had learned from her family, reports TMZ.
She went on to accuse Timberlake of cheating on her during their three-year relationship.
Spears didn't name the person the hitmaker allegedly cheated on her with, referring to her as 'another celebrity.'
Timberlake appeared to reference the criticism while performing at the opening of the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas in December.
Ahead of launching into the hit song, he told the audience: 'No disrespect.'
