As we all know, Justin Timberlake couldn’t help but remind us that he got drunk and got handsy with his costar Alisha Wainwright. The incident happened in New Orleans, at a bar in the French Quarter, and JT and Alisha were holding hands and at one point, she had her hand on his thigh, and they looked very flirty and touchy. He also looked visibly drunk. We know all of this because there were photos and a video. It’s not idle gossip. It’s evidential gossip. Anyway, that happened the weekend before Thanksgiving. We got through a whole-ass holiday and completely forgot about it before Justin reminded us by posting his “apology” on Instagram Tuesday evening. So what was behind the apology? Why publicly apologize to his wife for this, as opposed to, you know, working sh-t out privately? A source spilled all to E! News:
Justin Timberlake is taking the steps to put those eyebrow-raising photos behind him. Late last month, the Grammy winner made headlines when photos emerged of him and Palmer co-star Alisha Wainwright holding hands and getting questionably touchy during an outing with the cast and crew in New Orleans. While sources told E! News “there is absolutely nothing going on between them,” Timberlake broke his silence on the situation on Wednesday with a public apology to his longtime wife, Jessica Biel, and his family.
“He feels terrible that this happened and for putting Jessica through the public scrutiny,” a source said of the star. “He knows she doesn’t deserve any of this and that he messed up.”
According to the source, Timberlake “hopes by addressing what happened and apologizing to her publicly that they can put this behind them and start to move on. Justin feels like the story isn’t dying and hopes this will be the end of it. He always tries to keep his private life private, but he knows he made a big mistake in public and now has to own up to it.”
In regard to their 7-year marriage, “Nobody is going anywhere, but it’s definitely had an effect on their marriage and her trust in him,” the source noted. “Even if nothing more happened than what was in the photos, what he did was highly inappropriate.”
Timberlake’s rep could not be reached for comment.
I always love it when an outlet gets some dishy exclusive from someone deep within a celebrity’s camp and then they end the article with “so-and-so’s rep could not be reached for comment.” Just so we’re clear, Justin’s rep went to E! and asked them to print this follow-up. As for the quotes… “He knows she doesn’t deserve any of this”…? So it would have been cool for him to cheat if she did “deserve” it? Huh. “Justin feels like the story isn’t dying”…? The story was dead. It was dead before Thanksgiving even, and I truly forgot about that sh-t this week. The rest of it… I guess Jessica was legit pissed. I would have been too! And I guess she was like “motherf–ker, APOLOGIZE TO ME and let everyone know you apologized to me.”
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
He is a ramen headed douche-noodle, but while he is out there apologizing he should give Britney and Janet a quick call. Maybe call in a medium and apologize to Prince too.
you winnnnnn!!!!!
Love it!
Divorce countdown starting in 10, 9, 8, 7, 6,……
If I was her I’d take him to the cleaners pronto.
I think she’ll stick with him, I predict some happy family pap strolls coming up soon!
And another baby
I agree with this but also with jenner & smcollins… bandaid baby comin’ in hot for 2020.
Also, never a good idea. I know 3 couples in my community (my age, early 30’s) that have split in the last 12 months and bandaid babies didn’t help them. Sort your shit out people, before bringing a baby in to screw up.
Gosh yes. If there is one “coping strategy” I could delete from the human race, it is the band-aid baby. Do not put your nightmare onto a poor innocent child.
Honestly wondering if she hasn’t already left with the kiddo and this is his way of reaching out to her.
She liked his Instagram post. I don’t think there’ll be a divorce.
He has no respect for Jessica, drunk or not he knew he was on an open balcony surrounded by coworkers and people watching from the street. He’s been famous for over 20 years, he knows how this works by now. Imagine what they did in private if that’s how they acted in public. I do feel bad for Jessica, he’s such a douche.
This. Absolutely.
I kind of think they already had something going on in private, and that’s why she was so very comfortable stroking his leg and casually draping her hand over his thigh. Likewise, he was comfortable having her hand (in one pic) sandwiched in between his. This, of course, tells me that they’ve already had something more physical, which makes this situation even worse. They were doing all of this under the small table, but had no idea it was being filmed from across the street by someone. I do believe he is very sorry he was caught; otherwise, he and his costar were planning on continuing their intimacy with each other.
He does look like he wanted to be found.
Loads of famous people have side pieces and it’s always very underground unless, like Jay Z, until they get outed by their wives.
ugh. Always pisses me off that that JayZ doesn’t get enough attacks from the beyhive and its always the other woman. Why is the beyhive so sexist?
Beyonce defended him on tour right after she released her album talking about the cheating. I think the beyhive does whatever bey says
I sometimes wonder if these guys actually want to be divorced but they’re too cowardly to do it themselves so they cheat over and over and in public and become more and more brazen and disrespectful with their antics hoping the wife will file. All the time though, they’re going through the motions of apologizing and sucking up, because they want to look good when it’s all over, or they really do start to chicken out when they’re caught. But really, they’d be relieved if the wife didn’t accept the apologies and went ahead with the divorce. It’s another way that women are forced to do all the emotional labor. “I want out of this marriage but I’m going to make you make all the hard decisions and break it to our kids, friends, and families, and you’re going to have to be the one who deals with the legal paperwork, and gathering evidence of my cheating, and all the thousands of difficult things that have to be done when you’re getting a divorce.” It’s sick. It’s emotionally abusive.
@Amy Too Exactly this! Everything you said was exactly spot on!
Yes!
I think it is exactly what’s going on.
He’s too cowardly to have a mature conversation with with his wife so he’s behaving like an immature idiot so that she could react instead.
@AmyToo heck yes! This is what I see with celebs and commoners alike. Men do not want to deal with the emotions and negative image. I’ve even heard one man tell his wife that she better file first because he wasn’t going to ruin his reputation. Emotional abuse at its finest.
Agree 100%
Nah. They don’t want the divorce. They want the freedom that would come after the divorce, but not the cost and hassle of the divorce.
It’s not just men though, can we be clear on that? I know plenty of women who act the fool too.
I’ve watched Justin in videos on tour and all the things he is involved in. He’s a very hyped, active, busy guy–he hangs around lots of people and there are after parties all the time. He has a completely different life than his wife while on the road. He is surrounded by groups of music people and friends. It wouldn’t surprise me that he gets caught up and has a lot of fun away from home. It’s easy to forget he’s married, or he’s actually a bit bored at home and gets caught up in the moment. I think the only reason it’s worked this far is that she’s willing to put up with it. But she knew all of this when they married–he already had this career, and he brings home most of the money so they can live a certain lifestyle. She could not do this on her own, so I’m sure she puts up to a certain extent bc of this.
Yes, I think she’s making him do this. She insisted he publically bow and scrape for her forgiveness and tell everyone he’s not worthy of such a queen. I can’t stand either of them, so forgive me if I sound unfeeling. I also suspect they are going to destroy Alisha’s career. You need a devil here. You have; The Suffering Wife. The Loving Husband Who Made A Mistake.
You know what the story needs, right? Yeah.
I have thought this myself- Alisha was also in the wrong, but she is going to get destroyed. She doesn’t have the name recognition or star power to withstand whatever they do to her.
So the hypocritical prick in a MeToo badge gets to destroy yet another woman’s career? Jen must not realize her turn is coming.
I don’t think so, they both looked equally guilty and into each other. She got her name in the news, I had never heard of her before.
Two things, I tried posting vaguely on the last post involving this incident, but commenters came after what I wrote. I will say this time, I KNOW Alisha.
1) I KNOW Alisha, and a few involved with this film. The whole touchy feely, line stepper pics were unfortunate, but just that. Drunk Justin, out of control. I said this last time, but it reminds me of any theater class or cast after party where people have effed up boundaries, and are just touchy feely. It almost always looks bad.
2) If you get a chance, spin through her IG a just read the disgusting “Black girl, know your place”, “Black trash”, “talentless whore” comments that she’s been receiving since this story broke. If anyone is affected from this, it’s her. This marriage isnt going anywhere, Justin needed to make this “hey public, look, I said sorry!” post, and Alisha will continue to bear the public shaming.
I think the mental gymnastics he is doing to say what he did was inappropriate and disrespectful, but also he didn’t really do anything, is pretty funny. I’m pretty sure she wanted him to publicly apologize to her. but now the story isn’t going away because he’s dredged it all back up again.
All of what you wrote-what he did was inappropriate and disrespectful but he didn’t really do anything…and then he has the gall to plug the movie he’s filming. It’s a hot mess of a press release, he clearly wrote it himself. It speaks volumes that his PR co. didn’t clean it up and let it go out like that.
That’s the only explanation that makes sense, because otherwise it had totally gone away and no one cared anymore until he started apologizing.
Also, the more he apologizes and talks about it, the worse it sounds and convinces me something WAS going on.
And another also…he is not aging well. I never got his appeal, but “cute” boy banders don’t always grow into handsome men.
Sure blame the alcohol. Blame everyone, but yourself. He got caught, so he has to publicly apologize. Who knows what was going on before that night. Cheating is a calculated move. There is no excuse for cheating. Nothing from Wainwright’s camp yet. Isn’t she married?
Right. Alcohol doesn’t change who you are, it amplifies it.
The top pic is just perfect. That is all.
It is and it epitomizes their general vibe. They have never seeem to be a couple, just two people who happen to be married to each other.
I think so too. They have no chemistry. I don’t think they ever did. I’m surprised they got married in the first place and I’m surprised they’re still married. If they stick it out for the rest of their lives I’ll be even more surprised. Seems like it has been doomed from the beginning but they’ve been married for 7 years now so who knows. I don’t see her leaving him so maybe it will last.
@ HK9-IKR?!?! YIKES 😖
I can’t say I blame her for making him do this public apology stuff.
If he’s going to embarrass her publicly, he should have to grovel publicly as well.
Hmmm… I can’t help but wonder if this is all some publicity stunt to generate buzz around whatever this movie is that he is shooting. I mean maybe not, but this whole situation seems so…. planned.
She has got to be pissed out of her mind, I know I’d be mortified. I think he’s trying to be publicly contrite because shes …who knows what. Honestly for me this would be separation worthy at a minimum. Even knowing it happened would be bad enough but everyone else knowing too takes it to even worse a level. I feel really bad for her. Goddamn.
I for sure would leave my husband over this, he wouldn’t be able to convince me there wasn’t more going on. No doubt Justin slept with this woman, or at least tried to.
Yeah, I’d consider this cheating. She was stroking his inner thigh, which sounds an awful lot like more was going on.
They’ll either be divorced or have another kid in a year. I don’t usually second-guess people’s reproductive choices, but Jessica has been working the mommy lifestyle angle for a while, so it surprised me that there hasn’t been a follow-up kid. Although she was on that mini-series that got pretty good reviews, so maybe she’s chosen to concentrate on work….
“but he knows he made a big mistake in public.” Lol i get what they meant by this, but to me it just sounds like usually he makes his “mistakes” in private not in “public” and maybe Jessica looks the other way as long as he “keeps his private life private.”
Blech. He’s dirty dishwater. Pull the plug.
This makes me think that Jessica is really really angry and that’s why these public statements have been released. Perhaps she doesn’t turn a blind eye as much as we might think.
@Kaiser – Can’t stop laughing at “motherf’er apologize to me and let everyone know you apologized to me.” Super stressed today and I needed a laugh!
I’ve been reading The State of Affairs by Esther Perel & I highly recommend it to anyone dealing with infidelity. I have empathy for Jessica with this situation. She probably thought marriage & a child would change JT & this public display makes it clear that they have not. Shattered illusions are much more painful than drunk handholding.
Who knows what’s really being plotted between JT and his scummy publicists. It wouldn’t be the first time they’ve thrown a woman under the bus for the sake of Timberlake (like they did to Janet Jackson). I really don’t see what’s so special about the guy. He’s past his glory days of pretending to be good at anything and he’s just an all-around douchebag. Nothing to look at either.
It seems that his apology is just a promo for his movie. Who even hires him to act? He is so bad at it. He is a disgusting piece of work.
Jessica Biel doesn’t deserve to be married to him and she could do better.
FIFY, Justin
Dude of course he cheated. OF COURSE. That’s why he’s panicking. Nobody even really cared about this story. Nobody cares about Justin Timberlake anymore. The story was going away. No one really thought about it. And he put it out there again by sounding super guilty. He’s getting ahead of any potential new future tidbits. And NOW he looks extra guilty to me. This apology sounds so much like Kristen Stewart’s apology “a momentary lapse in judgement.” You did not just do a bad thing the one time the paparazzi caught you. What are the odds… This was ongoing and you know it.
Jessica shouldn’t be surprised. She knew who she married. Cheaters don’t change just because you had his baby.
I still have a VERY hard time believing that Kristen Stewart claims she never had sex with that director. I have never had any man do those things to me that were in the minicoopering photos that I hadn’t been intimate with.
Stewart could mean there was no intercourse. There could have been other sexual acts without any intercourse.
Oh ok, so kinda like Bill Clinton’s I did not have sex with that woman!
Justin, nobody was looking for you after this died down quickly because the reaction was “Yeah. that sounds about right.” This non-apology is an attention grab about himself, and not the women affected, both of whom he didn’t even name.
I am with lainey on this one. He is trying to get Aisha to hold the bag. He failed with Janet and did Britney dirty he is not as popular so maybe Aisha’s career will be unaffected. She is moving upwards with her career and cannot afford to be damaged like Janet.
Justin didnt think he deserved to be cheated on by britney and he wrote multiple songs shaming her, whats an equivalent that Jessica could do?
Nothing will be done by Jessica is exactly why justin married her, much like kate Middleton their marriages will only end if their husbands end them
It is sad to me that some women can put up with chronic cheaters. I believe cheating can be forgiven, but chronic cheating, no way!
I was thinking about the post yesterday on JT and later remembered going into work the day after The Super Bowl where he performed. It was a couple of years ago, I think; not the one with Janet and the men and I were discussing what was wrong with him.
He looked big-eyed, very pale and sweaty and didn’t do a very good job.
I said I thought he was seriously sick or maybe just Flu or something but the show must go on and all that and my men (mostly in their 20s) said, “Oh come on! He was HIGH!”
Now, I see it.
Remember when he was just a young kid and Ashton Douchebag punked him and he was on the phone crying to his mom that his stuff was being taken EVEN HIS DOGS?
My daughter and I were so mad at Ashton for doing that to poor JT and making him cry.
All these years later, I think they are two of a kind.
The Sinner will be back on TV soon so why not drum up some publicity. Wait, is Jessica even still attached to this show?
He’s a douche and it takes 2 to tango however this passive aggressive PR is going to ruin Alisha’s rep as he is basically admitting something was going on and setting her up to take the fall.
Omg he should be made to stand still while all of the women he has thrown under the bus whack him like a piñata. Janet gets to go first ….
…without the blindfolds.
Heh.
Omg this is too funny…….YESSSSSS, whack him like a pinata!!
His apology is laughable.
IIRC, didn’t she have a clause in her pre-nup that if/when he cheats, she gets $X amount of money in addition to the divorce settlement? If their marriage is over because he is a compulsive cheater, maybe she’s waiting for him to have a few more affairs so she can “forgive” him all the way to the bank.
Yes, a cheating clause where she would get $500,000, I believe.
You know how some men are just okay looking when they’re younger, but then they get really good looking as they get older?
Justin is not one of those guys.
I still think they have an open marriage, and he and Jessica would rather the public think he “messed up” by cheating than to know they have an open marriage because it’s so stigmatised.