Britney Spears Reflects on ‘Passionate’ Fling With Colin Farrell in Memoir: ‘We Were All Over Each Other’

Britney Spears has opened up about her fling with Colin Farrell, and it sounds like it was a “…Baby One More Time” situation.

In a new snippet from her upcoming memoir The Woman In Me shared Friday (Oct. 20) by People and confirmed by Billboard, the 41-year-old pop star revealed that she and the now 47-year-old Irish actor had what she describes as a “two-week brawl” back in 2003. “Brawl is the only word for it — we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” she wrote.

“As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal,” she continued, noting that she met Farrell when he was working on his 2003 film S.W.A.T. “That we were just having fun, that in this case I was vulnerable because I wasn’t over Justin yet.”

The “Justin” she refers to is, of course, Justin Timberlake, her high-profile boyfriend from 1999 to 2002. Spears’ reflection about Farrell comes on the heels of another major piece of news lifted from her fast-approaching book, which arrives Oct. 24: While she and the *NSYNC band member were together, the “Toxic” singer claims she got pregnant, but had an abortion.

“It was a surprise, but for me it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much,” she wrote, according to an excerpt first published by People. “I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I anticipated.”

“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” the Grammy winner added of her abortion. “And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father … To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”

Spears went on to marry Kevin Federline in 2004, later welcoming sons Sean and Jayden. The couple split in 2006. 

In 2022, the artist married her longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari; he filed for divorce in August.

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