Britney Spears was brutally dumped by Justin Timberlake with the two-word text: “It’s over!!!”
The pop star has laid bare the secrets of their three-year relationship from 1999 to 2002 in her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, and the music director of her video for Overprotected: The Darkchild Remix has now spoken out to say he found Britney outraged on the floor of her trailer on set after getting the break-up message from *NSYNC singer.
body copy_bold: In an interview with Page Six, Chris Applebaum said the dumping happened in February 2002 while they were shooting the promo – which apparently prompted her to say: “He blew the best thing he ever had.”
Applebaum said at the end of a tough second day of filming in Los Angeles, Britney went missing for about 20 to 40 minutes – which he said was a “long time” because it costs “20 grand to sit around”.
When he arrived at her trailer, he saw the singer sitting on the floor with her legs crossed, her make-up smudged, and in tears. Britney held up her Motorola flip phone to Applebaum and said, “I can’t believe it. Look it. This happened.” Then she showed a text from Timberlake that read, “It’s over!!!”
Timberlake, now 42, had apparently been trying to reach Britney, 41, all day while at her shoot because he was “p!ssed” about her cheating with choreographer Wade Robson – a fling she admits to in her book.
Britney tells in her memoir, due out today, she fled home to Louisiana after splitting from Justin, where she felt “comatose” while he was “happily running around Hollywood”.
She also reveals she aborted his child during their relationship as he wasn’t ready to be a dad.