Britney Spears Reveals How She and Justin Timberlake Kept Her Abortion a Secret — Even from Her Family

Britney Spears recalls a painful experience.

In his new memoir The woman in meSpears is sharing details about the medical abortion she had after she became pregnant with Justin Timberlake’s child while they were in a relationship.

“It was important that no one found out about the pregnancy or the miscarriage, which meant doing everything at home,” writes Spears, now 41. “We didn’t even tell my family. The only person who knew besides Justin and me was Felicia [Culotta, Spears’ former assistant], who was always there to help me. I was told, ‘It might hurt a little, but you’ll be fine.'”

She writes about the experience: “On the appointed day, with just Felicia and Justin around, I took the little pills. Soon I started having excruciating cramps. I went to the bathroom and stayed there for hours, lying on the floor, sobbing and screaming.”

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At the time, Spears recalls, Timberlake, now 42, tried to comfort her.

“Justin walked into the bathroom and laid on the floor with me,” she writes. “At some point he thought music might help him, so he picked up his guitar and laid there with me strumming it.”

A representative for Timberlake did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.

PEOPLE was the first to confirm last week that Spears wrote about being pregnant with Timberlake in her memoir and after the miscarriage.

The “Toxic” singer was 17 when she started dating the then 18-year-old *NSYNC singer in 1999, and they dated until 2002.

“I loved Justin so much. I always expected that one day we would have a family together. It will be much sooner than I expected,” Spears writes about the pregnancy in the book. “But Justin was definitely not happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a child in our lives, that we were too young.”

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Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears in February 2002. Denise Trusc / Getty

The book says: “If it was up to me, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure he didn’t want to be a father.”

Spears writes of her abortion experience: “To this day, it’s one of the most painful things I’ve ever experienced in my life.”

After Spears and Timberlake divorced in 2002, she became a mother, welcoming two sons — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden James, 17 — with her second husband, Kevin Federline.

Spears released her long-awaited memoir on Tuesday through Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

“It’s finally time for me to raise my voice and speak, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,” Spears told PEOPLE in an email interview for last week’s exclusive cover story. “No more conspiracies, no more lies – only I own my past, present and future.”

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