Britney Spears Had a Justin Timberlake-Related ‘Panic Attack’ at 2007 VMAs

Britney Spears says she suffered a “panic attack” after bumping into her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards shortly before she went on stage at the ceremony and gave a performance that was brutally savaged by critics.

Writing in her new memoir The Woman in Me, Spears explained how her appearance—the first to be broadcast in three years after a series of personal struggles—turned into a disaster before it had even started.

The now-41-year-old said the VMAs snafu started with an anxiety-inducing encounter with Timberlake just before she went on stage to perform her single “Gimme More.”

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