Bossip
Video
Timbaland
has
issued
an
apology
to
Britney
Spears
following
his
controversial
“muzzle”
remarks
about
the
pop
star.
Source:
Paras
Griffin/Getty
Images
/
JB
Lacroix/WireImage
On
Nov.
7,
the
Grammy
Award-winning
producer
was
slammed
with
backlash
online
after
he
suggested
that
his
close
collaborator
and
friend
Justin
Timberlake
should
have
placed
a
“muzzle”
on
the
“Toxic”
crooner
before
she
penned
her
juicy
memoir
The
Woman
in
Me.
Inside,
the
41-year-old
star
shares
eyebrow-raising
details
about
her
failed
relationship
with
the
former
N’SYNC
member.
Source:
Jerritt
Clark
/
Getty
The
51-year-old
producer’s
apology
campaign
came
shortly
after
a
clip
from
his
interview
at
the
Kennedy
Center
for
the
Performing
Arts
in
Washington,
D.C.
went
viral.
Timbaland
made
the
“muzzle”
remark
when
an
attendee
asked
him
how
he
felt
about
the
resurgence
of
his
hit
song
“Cry
Me
a
River”
with
Timberlake
following
the
release
of
Spears’
memoir
in
October.
“Yeah,
she’s
going
crazy,
right?”
the
star,
real
name
Timothy
Zachery
Mosley,
quipped
when
asked
about
some
of
the
salacious
stories
Spears
penned
in
reference
to
“Cry
Me
a
River”
inside
her
buzzing
memoir.
“I
wanted
to
call
and
say,
‘JT,
man,
you’ve
got
to
put
a
muzzle
on
that
girl,
man.’”
On
X,
formerly
Twitter,
fans
of
Spears
lit
into
Timbaland
after
the
clip
from
his
Kennedy
Center
interview
soared
across
the
platform.
Some
users
accused
the
music
titan
of
“bullying”
the
pop
icon.
Other
netizens
called
the
Hip-Hop
mogul
“sexist”
and
a
“misogynist”
over
his
words.
As
backlash
began
to
pick
up
steam
on
Nov.
8,
Timbaland
took
to
TikTok
to
address
his
insensitive
remark.
“I
apologize
to
all
the
Britney
fans
and
even
to
her,”
the
super
producer
told
fans.
You
have
a
voice.
You
speak
what
you
want
to
speak.
Who
am
I
to
tell
you
what
not
to
speak
and
I
was
wrong
for
saying
that.”
He
continued,
“I
was
looking
at
it
from
a
different
lens.
What
I
am
is
a
reconciled
person.
I
am
not
a
person
who
takes
sides.”
Britney
Spears
And
Justin
Timberlake
Dated
From
1999
To
2002
The
couple’s
relationship
was
filled
with
trials
and
tribulations,
according
to
Britney
Spears’
new
memoir.
Source:
CHRIS
DELMAS
/
Getty
Spears
claimed
that
the
music
video
for
“Cry
Me
A
River”
was
loosely
based
on
their
bad
breakup.
The
star
was
accused
of
cheating
on
Timberlake
at
the
time
of
their
split,
but
Spears
accused
the
former
boy
band
artist
of
also
committing
infidelity
during
their
relationship.
“I
felt
there
was
no
way
at
the
time
to
tell
my
side
of
the
story.
I
couldn’t
explain,
because
I
knew
no
one
would
take
my
side
once
Justin
had
convinced
the
world
of
his
version,”
Spears
wrote,
according
to
Today.
“I
don’t
think
Justin
realized
the
power
he
had
in
shaming
me.
I
don’t
think
he
understands
to
this
day.”
Further
along
in
her
new
memoir,
Spears
also
revealed
that
she
had
an
abortion
after
she
became
pregnant
with
Timberlake’s
child.
The
mother
and
author
claimed
that
she
agreed
to
the
procedure
after
the
former
boy
band
artist
expressed
doubt
about
becoming
a
father.
“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,”
Spears
penned,
according
to
an
excerpt
obtained
by
People. “But
Justin
definitely
wasn’t
happy
about
the
pregnancy.
He
said
we
weren’t
ready
to
have
a
baby
in
our
lives,
that
we
were
way
too
young.”
“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,”
she
added.
