“Cry Me a River,” Justified‘s 2nd single a track mostly presumed to be an autobiographical take on their split likely would have eclipsed its predecessor “Like I Love You,” with its lyrics alone: “You don’t have to say what you did / I already know, I found out from him.” But when the video dropped, including 18- year-old blonde model-actress Lauren Hastings, a Spears doppelgänger to the newsboy hat, well, it appeared terribly purposeful. Suddenly Timberlake had a runaway hit and Spears had some ‘splaining to do.
Timberlake had actually connected to notify her that he ‘d cast a lookalike to appear opposite him, however it was still difficult to procedure. Seeing the video while on trip, “I was kind of in denial, like, I went into this whole denial phase or whatever,” she discussed toSawyer “I don’t want to judge him or anything like that, because that’s the way he had to deal with what happened. And that’s fine.”
Still, she continued, “I know if I was in a relationship and something happened, I just, I couldn’t really go there.” Sure, her single “Everytime” in which she sang “My weakness caused you pain /Â And this song’s my sorry” appeared to be aboutTimberlake But, as she stammered to Sawyer, “I’ll let the song just speak for itself.”
