Alyssa Farah Griffin has 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 within the early 2000s and the pair decided to proceed with an abortion, as Timberlake allegedly didn’t need to be a father.
“That one was a gut punch once I read it, but consider the pressure that these two young icons at the moment were under,” Griffin told the show’s executive producer Brian Teta Tuesday on the “Behind the Table” podcast.
“That they had to live this myth and pretend, while playing very sexified people of their public lives. That they had to pretend they were virgins, which as an adult now I’m like, ‘after all they weren’t.’”
Spears and Timberlake dated from 1999 to 2002. The previous boy-bander allegedly cheated on the “Toxic” songstress with “one other celebrity,” while Spears revealed in her book that she cheated on Timberlake with choreographer Wade Robson.
Griffin continued on the podcast, “I believe it exposes like a human side of a story that, on reflection, that absolutely is sensible that they went through all of those struggles. The challenge that it presents is a tricky topic to discuss within the context of reproductive health. I do feel strongly that each people, each parents, have a say in what happens with the kid.”
“It was heartbreaking to listen to her sort of say she may need done something different if not for what he wanted. But I do hope for her, talking about it was helpful and now you see how essential having kids was to her. She’s got her kids, she had talked about wanting to have more. I could dissect how Britney was treated for hours,” the superfan went on.
She finished: “The pressures of being hypersexualized with then having to pretend you’re a virgin… like they each, in other ways, went through hell and I’m gonna try to present them each somewhat grace in it.”
Spears went on to have two sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline — Sean Preston, 18, and Jayden, 17.
Although the pop star has not seen her sons in nearly two years, she dedicated “The Woman in Me” to the pair, calling them “the loves of my life.”