Justin Timberlake’s DWI joke angers mom of drunken-driving victim: ‘He lost a fan’

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make light of his June 18 DWI during a Saturday show in Boston.“So, uh, is there anyone here tonight that is driving — no, I’m just kidding,” he said during the show, seemingly joking that members of his own audience might be driving under the influence.

He went on to thank his fans for 30 years of support.The former *NSYNC star was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated along with citations for failure to keep right and failure to stop at a stop sign for the alleged drunken-driving that occurred after midnight in the Hamptons in New York last month.Sheila Lockwood, whose 23-year-old son, Austin, was killed by a drunken driver in 2018, told Fox News Digital that Timberlake has one fewer fan after his comments in Boston.The Moms Against Drunk Driving (MADD) national ambassador said “there is nothing funny about” the charges filed against the international pop star.“It’s very disappointing.

He has a huge platform that he could be using to bring awareness to this,” Lockwood said. “It is a national crisis. Every 79 seconds, someone’s killed or injured from drunk driving, and he’s standing on stage making a joke of it.

It’s not funny.”Lockwood noted that Timberlake’s legal case is still ongoing and added that he “should have not mentioned anything about it at all” or instead taken “the opportunity to make it a teaching moment and raise awareness and admit that his choices were not good that night.”“It’s not funny, and as a mom that has lost a son, it’s very disheartening.