‘The View’ co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin defends Justin Timberlake over Britney Spears’ abortion

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Justin Timberlake’s sexyback.“The View” co-host defended the “Cry Me A River” crooner against Britney Spears’ now-famous shock claim in her book “The Woman in Me” — that he got her pregnant in the early 2000s and the pair decided to proceed with an abortion, as Timberlake allegedly did not want to be a father. “That one was a gut punch when I read it, but think of the pressure that these two young icons at that time were under,” Griffin told the show’s executive producer Brian Teta Tuesday on the “Behind the Table” podcast.“They had to live this myth and pretend, while playing very sexified people in their public lives.

They had to pretend they were virgins, which as an adult now I’m like, ‘of course they weren’t.'”Spears and Timberlake dated from 1999 to 2002.

The former boy-bander allegedly cheated on the “Toxic” songstress with “another celebrity,” while Spears revealed in her book that she cheated on Timberlake with choreographer Wade Robson.

Griffin continued on the podcast, “I think it exposes like a human side of a story that, in retrospect, that totally makes sense that they went through all of those struggles.