Justin Timberlake Apologizes to ‘Absolutely F—ing Nobody’ Before Performing ‘Cry Me a River’ at Concert

Justin Timberlake celebrated his birthday with a one-night stand in New York and made it clear that he has “no one” to apologize to.

The former *NSYNC frontman-turned-solo star turned 43 on Wednesday and celebrated with a free concert at Irving Plaza, performing a string of hits from throughout his career and some of his new music from his upcoming album, Everything I thought it was (due out March 15).

Before singing his 2002 hit “Cry Me a River,” Timberlake took a moment to share some heartfelt thoughts with the crowd. “I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely nobody,” Timberlake said before the song, a concertgoer confirmed to PEOPLE.

Timberlake also performed the song at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas opening in December, but shouted “No disrespect!” before the start of the melody.

Justin Timberlake tells crowd ‘No Disrespect’ before singing ‘Cry Me a River’ following release of Britney Spears’ memoir

His latest comment comes after Britney Spears shared her thoughts on the two-decade-old song in her memoir, The woman in me describing the plot of the song’s music video as, “a woman who looks like me cheats on him, and he wanders around sad in the rain.”

In the book, Spears, 42, claims that the media’s reaction to the video portrayed her as “a harlot who broke the heart of America’s golden boy,” when in fact she was “in a coma in Louisiana and he was happily running around Hollywood.” Spears also confirmed in the book that she kissed choreographer Wade Robson while dating Timberlake.

Justin Timberlake thanks the audience in New York after a free show at Irving Plaza.

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Timberlake has never directly addressed Spears’ memoir, but told Zane Lowe last month that his new material will give his supporters a “real” perspective on his life.

“I was able, in some songs, to look back and have a real, not a refracted perspective of what was because they always say… you always hear that thing about, well, there’s never any truth, there’s just everybody’s perspective of what happened “, He said. “But to really look at it and be able to metabolize and verbalize my perspective on it, I don’t think I’ve ever done that before.”

Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake on The Tonight Show in January 2024.

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On Sunday, after Timberlake returned to Saturday night live For the first time in 10 years, Spears made another public comment about the singer, praising two new songs he performed on the NBC late-night comedy show.

“I want to apologize for some things I wrote about in my book. If I offended any of the people I genuinely care about, I’m very sorry…”, she wrote in a post on Instagram that has since been deleted. “I also wanted to say that I’m in love with Justin Timberlake’s new song ‘Selfish’ 🌹 It’s so good and how come every time I see Justin and Jimmy together I laugh so hard??? PS ‘Sanctified’ is also wow 🤩.”

The post included a video featuring Timberlake The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, where he, Fallon and The Roots performed a fun medley of some of his biggest songs, including “Selfish,” to the sound of classroom instruments.

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During Timberlake’s performance at Irving Plaza, his wife Jessica Biel came on stage and surprised the singer with a birthday cake and a song.

The crowd joined in singing “Happy Birthday”. Trolls star. Timberlake greeted his wife, who was holding a cake with several lit candles, with a kiss and a hug as the audience sang to him and he blew out the candles.

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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel leave Irving Plaza in New York on January 31, 2024.

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After the show, Timberlake posted a video on his Instagram Story thanking his fans for a great night. “New York City, Irving Plaza, that was fun,” he said while filming where crews were cleaning the set. “I love you guys.”

“THANK YOU NY ❤️,” he captioned the selfie-style video.

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