JUSTIN Timberlake and Britney Spears’ “feud” is non-existent and the trauma over her abortion has been resolved privately.
Timberlake apologized to his ex-pop superstar partner and they are now “fine,” his NYSNC bandmate Lance Bass revealed in an exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun.
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Bass is a friend to both Britney and bandmate and long-term pal Justin.
Bass says that Britney addressed the break up in the book to set her record straight on that split, but “that was the past”.
He insists that while publicly it appears Spears remains upset, seemingly through her social media posts, “They don’t care. They are good.”
Speaking exclusively on camera, at the annual Environmental Media Association Awards in LA, Bass said that the deeply personal issues between the couple was not even a “fight”.
The ex-NSYNC star feels that his friends’ personal woes were “just life”.
Bass, 44, also added that Britney fans’ successful push of her single Selfish ahead of Timberlake’s new single of the same name on the iTunes Charts is “good for everyone”.
Currently, some Spears’ fans continue to attack her ex-partner following her memoir heartbreak of him wanting an abortion and cheating allegations in 2001.
When asked how the famous couple solve their differences, Bass declared: “Well, the problem is they’ve already sorted it out and everyone just forgets.
“No, they are fine. They support each other. They love each other in their own ways.
“He has apologized. She is amazing. It’s just like everyone, this has happened already.
“So I think just people like to keep fights going, but look at the people that are in the fight. They don’t care. They’re good.”
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Spears claimed in her memoir, the media portrayed her as “a harlot who’d broken the heart of America’s golden boy,” while she was really “comatose in Louisiana” as he was “happily running around Hollywood”.
Justin has not made any public comment about Spears’ claims, but did tell fans at his Vegas gig in December “no disrespect” before playing Cry Me a River – a tune penned about her cheating on him.
Hours later she appeared to fire back on Instagram: “I never mentioned how I beat him in basketball and he would cry… no disrespect.”
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Bass, wearing a vibrant green suit and sporting violet hair, says The Woman In Me is not reflective of their status now.
“But she was talking about her past. She’s not talking about right now. Okay. So what’s happening right now – they are fine.
“I don’t know why people try to keep this fight going. It wasn’t even really a fight. It was just life.”
Bass also feels that Spears‘ fans continuing to disrupt Timberlake is not necessarily a bad thing.
They sent her tune named Selfish to No. 1 on the iTunes Top Songs chart, stopping his tune from a top spot.
Bass, 44, feels Timberlake, whose new album Everything I Thought It Was is released on March 15, is winning despite the drama.
“It’s good for everybody, right?
“Yeah. Any press is good press is what they say. . So yeah, I mean, it’s fine. Now they both have singles in the top 10, which is great.”
Bass admits that while Timberlake has his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, which kicks off in Vancouver, Canada on April 29. There are no NSYNC reunion plans.
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He added that there is “always hope”, especially after how fans reacted to Bass, JT, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick, and JC Chasez, reuniting for The Trolls film comeback single before Christmas.
”The fans are incredible. They keep us alive, but they’ve been with us since the last NSYNC tour.
“So it’s like we’ve never felt like they’ve left us at all. So everything that I’ve ever done, I felt that they were there. They’ve always shown up for me in every individual project I’ve done. When we get together as a group, it is a different thing.
“It’s just this kind of craziness that happens and it’s fun. It’s fun to see the reaction. I love the smiles and how happy people get seeing us all five together. It is rare, but it’s special.”
Co-host Bass spoke about the controversy before co-hosting the star-studded EMA award at the Sunset Las Palmas Studios in Los Angeles.
Hollywood star Laura Dern was honored with the EMA Ongoing Commitment Award for her continued dedication to the cause.
Grammy-winning superstar Sheryl Crow performed to a full house including stars and environmental campaigners like Frances Fisher, Malin Ackerman, Eli Roth, Jane Fonda, and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Bass, who is a long-term board member of the EMA, confessed “I want to use my platform to be able to share great messages on the environment, and you have to share it over and over and over again because you forget. That’s why we have this every single year.
“Everyone has busy lives, so hit them on the head with all this great messaging.
“It’s just constantly reminding people what they can do and to really care about this planet.
“Our future is dire. With my kids, I want them to have a safe place to live, and it’s not a good outlook for the future if we don’t do anything right now.
“I feel like we’re almost at a point where it’s too late.
“We’ve been saying this for so many years, and I feel like we’re almost to the point where it almost might be too late. So this is the time that people really need to listen and take charge and keep those politicians honest.
“The ones that we voted for that said, ‘I’m going to shut down this and do this and help the planet.’
“Okay, are they doing that? They call their office every single day, but the hell out of that because that’s what’s going to help change everything for us. But we have to keep them honest.”