Interest in Justin Timberlake‘s love life is under renewed scrutiny lately. The release of Britney Spears’ autobiography The Woman In Me brought intimate details between the NSYNC singer and Spears in the early 2000s to light, including the fact that he allegedly encouraged her to get an abortion, and also that Timberlake cheated on her with another, unnamed celebrity during their three-year relationship.
These days, of course, Timberlake and Spears’ time together is long in the past, with Britney ending her third marriage and Justin having been married to actress Jessica Biel for many years.
Nevertheless, Spears’ revelations about the ups and downs of her relationship with Timberlake are ringing some bells for those who’ve kept up to date with his marriage to Biel, as the actor and singer has previously been rumored to have cheated on his wife.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel married in 2012 after five years of dating. While they have managed to weather the storms of any long-lasting relationship together, serving as parents to two sons (born in 2015 and 2020, respectively), the pair’s most rocky patch occurred back in late 2019, when Timberlake was publicly spotted in a cozy situation with another woman.
Of course, spending time with another woman isn’t exactly a flat-out example of cheating, but that certainly hasn’t stopped rumors from building, despite Biel and Timberlake being regarded as a happy couple early in their relationship.
The cheating claim, explained
In November 2019, Timberlake was snapped holding hands with actress Alisha Wainwright, who he was filming the drama movie Palmer with at the time, while out with friends at a bar in New Orleans. This naturally led to much speculation that he was openly cheating on Biel. A couple of weeks later, Timberlake took to social media to deny the accusations in a statement posted to Instagram. While admitting that he had made “a strong lapse in judgment,” Timberlake stressed that “nothing happened between me and my co-star.”