Justin Timberlake is in Mexico on holiday (Picture: Michael Owens/Getty Images)
Justin Timberlake is taking time out in Mexico after Britney Spears’ memoir release and subsequent online abuse.
The former NSYNC star, 42, has been the subject of trolling online since his ex Britney Spears, 41, made a number of claims in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, about their 2000s relationship.
In it, the Toxic singer accused Justin of pushing her to abort his baby and cheating with multiple women during their three-year relationship from 1999 to 2002.
The Cry Me A River hitmaker has now been spotted in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, in photos obtained by the Daily Mail.
He was seen getting off a private jet wearing a white T-shirt, grey jogger bottoms, and white trainers, alongside a baseball cap and sunglasses as he disembarked from the plane carrying his youngest son Phineas, three.
According to the publication, he is in Mexico for a family vacation, and it’s said his actress wife Jessica Biel, 41, and their other son, eight-year-old Silas, are also likely to be there.
Britney and Justin famously dated for three years from 1999 (Picture: Araldo Di Crollalanza/REX/Shutterstock)
Jessica Biel and Justin celebrated their 11th wedding anniversary recently (Picture: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
It’s the first time the singer has been spotted in public since Britney’s bombshell memoir, which became the highest-selling celebrity autobiography in history within 24 hours of its release last week.
In the wake of the world digesting Britney’s side of the story after years of salacious gossip surrounding the Circus hitmaker, with a key part of this being her high-profile relationship with Justin, the SexyBack singer has been subject to much online criticism.,
Justin recently disabled the comments sections on his Instagram account – on which he has 72million followers – after Britney’s legion of fans took to his social media with criticism after the revelations.
A source told Page Six he made the move due to the ‘hateful, disgusting things people were saying’ on his page.
Some raged at Justin never being ‘held accountable’ while many suggested the public backlash is ‘karma’.
As for the tell-all memoir’s revelations, Britney said she terminated her pregnancy with Justin’s baby as he ‘didn’t want to be a father’ at the time. If it was up to her alone, Britney revealed she would have had the baby.
The star has claimed Justin pressured her into an abortion when they were together (Picture: Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
She also criticised Justin’s music video for Cry Me A River, which came out in the wake of their headline-hitting split, and showed a woman who looked like Britney cheating on him.
It’s long been rumoured Britney cheated on Justin, but now the popstar has now claimed that she only did in response to his prior unfaithfulness.
While Justin came out of their relationship with a halo around his head, and his image as ‘America’s golden boy’ firmly intact, she came out of it a ‘harlot’ who broke his heart.
Britney also claimed that she could barely speak ‘for months’ after Justin allegedly dumped her with a two-word text.
Although these claims do not paint Justin in a good light, PR expert Mayah Riaz told Metro.co.uk he will come out of this unscathed, again.
‘The bombshells don’t define him or mean that’s who he is now,’ she said, continuing: ‘I do think Britney needs to have her say, and we’re all for that. But I don’t think it’s anything damaging to his brand.’
Some sources have claimed the book coming out marred Justin’s 11th wedding anniversary with Jessica Biel, 41, on October 19.
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Justin is yet to speak out over the allegations in the memoir, but his NSYNC bandmate Lance Bass has called for him to be ‘forgiven’.
‘Look, I mean,’ he began, chatting to TMZ. ‘Everyone has their own opinion.’
‘I just feel like the world is so full of hate right now that we need to practise a little forgiveness,’ he said.
‘Britney did! So, let’s take a note from her.’
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Meanwhile, Britney wrote in her memoir: ‘In the news media, I was described as a harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy. The truth: I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood.
‘May I just say that on his explosive album and in all the press that surrounded it, Justin neglected to mention the several times he’d cheated on me? There’s always more leeway in Hollywood for men than for women.
‘And I see how men are encouraged to talk trash about women in order to become famous and powerful. But I was shattered.’
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