Kandi Burruss wants people to leave Justin Timberlake alone amid backlash after Britney Spears claimed he once adopted a Black accent while talking to Ginuwine.
On Friday (November 3), the singer/reality star, who co-wrote *NSYNC’s 2000 song “It Makes Me Ill,” commented on the topic while talking to Page Six at BravoCon 2023.
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“I don’t want anybody to, like, down Justin because you’ve got to remember the times that we were going through at the time,” she said. “That era of pop and R&B, it was a lot of boy bands that did, like, urban music, urban routines and dancing, the whole image. That was in at the time, and nobody was passing judgment.”
She continued: “I just feel like that was young Justin. Leave him alone, y’all,” she said. “He was a really, really good guy.”
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In an excerpt of the audio book version of Britney’s new memoir The Woman In Me that was released last month, actor Michelle Williams narrates the pop star’s account of the interaction while doing her best impression of Timberlake’s “blaccent.”
“His band *NSYNC was what people called back then ‘so pimp,’” Williams began. “They were white boys but they loved Hip Hop. To me, that’s what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to position themselves as a white group. *NSYNC hung out with Black artists.”
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She continued: “Sometimes, I think they tried too hard to fit in. One day, J and I were in New York going to parts of town I’d never been to before. Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion. He was flanked by two giant security guards. J got all excited and said so loud, ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine! What’s up, homie?’
“After Ginuwine walked away, Felicia [Britney’s former assistant] did an impression of J. ‘Oh yeah, fo shizz, fo shizz. Ginuwine!’ J wasn’t even embarrassed. He just took it and looked at her like, ‘Okay, fuck you, Felicia.’”
In another shocking revelation from The Woman In Me, Britney Spears claimed she fell pregnant with Justin Timberlake’s child during their relationship in the late ’90s and early ’00s, but they decided to get an abortion.
“It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy,” the “Toxic” hitmaker wrote. “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. 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.”
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She added: “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.”
Britney described aborting the baby as “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
Justin Timberlake has not yet responded to his ex’s claims.
