Britney Spears' Audiobook_ Michelle Williams’ Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey
Britney Spears' Audiobook_ Michelle Williams’ Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey
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00:00 Jay got all excited and said so loud, "Oh yeah, fo' shiz, fo' shiz."
00:04 Michelle Williams goes viral for her impression of Justin Timberlake and Mariah Carey.
00:10 "It's everything that you would think it would be and then a little bit more."
00:13 Let's rewind. Britney Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me, hit shelves Tuesday,
00:18 along with an audiobook read by the five-time Oscar nominee.
00:22 "It's all surreal. All very, very surreal."
00:26 Shortly after that, the internet was buzzing over the actress' impression of Brit's ex,
00:31 as she narrates a part of the book where Brit recounts a trip to NYC with Justin.
00:36 "His band NSYNC was what people back then called so pimp. They were white boys but they loved hip
00:41 hop. To me, that's what separated them from the Backstreet Boys, who seemed very consciously to
00:46 position themselves as a white group." "You know what? We have fun. We love what we're doing."
00:50 "Yeah, I agree. You know, I mean, we're, you know, lucky individuals. You're not gonna see
00:55 us complaining. We're having a good time." Britney and Justin dated from 1999 to 2002,
01:01 at the height of the boy band's fame.
01:02 "One day, Jay and I were in New York. Walking our way was a guy with a huge blinged-out medallion.
01:08 He was flanked by two giant security guards. Jay got all excited and said so loud, 'Oh yeah,
01:14 fo' shiz, fo' shiz, genuine. What's up, homie?'"
01:17 And it's that committed impression of Justin's "fo' shiz, fo' shiz" to "genuine"
01:23 that left fans in genuine hysterics.
01:25 "What did I do?"
01:28 In another part of the book, Michelle channels Mariah Carey as she reads about Brit meeting the
01:34 music icon at an awards show. "At one awards show, I knocked on Mariah Carey's dressing room door.
01:40 She opened it and out poured the most beautiful otherworldly light. You know how we all have
01:46 ring lights now? Well, more than 20 years ago, only Mariah Carey knew about ring lights."
01:52 Brit says she asked to take a pic with Mariah. Her response?
01:56 "She said, 'No, come stand here, darling. This is my light. This is my side. I want you to stand
02:02 here so I can get my good side, girl.'" Yeah, Michelle nailed it.
02:06 "That would be giving away too much, darling."
02:08 She kept saying that in her deep, beautiful voice. "My good side, girl. My good side, girl."
02:14 "It was a moment."
02:16 Michelle even channels Brit reading a line about her sister, Jamie Lynn.
02:21 "And my little sister. Well, when I tell you she was a total a**hole, I'm not exaggerating."
02:26 Brit and Jamie Lynn have been at odds for a while, their relationship taking a hard hit in 2022,
02:33 when Jamie Lynn released her own memoir, Things I Should Have Said,
02:37 following the end of Britney's 13-year-long conservatorship.
02:40 "This is my reality that I've grown up in. It's the only reality I know,
02:44 and I'm allowed to speak about that."
02:46 Now Brit says that while she was fighting the conservatorship,
02:49 her sister was writing a book, capitalizing on it.
02:52 "She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous.
02:57 I was really let down."
02:59 "I don't have all the answers. I'm just trying to do the best I can every day
03:04 with everything that is, you know, going on, just like many other families in this world."
03:09 Ahead of the release of her own memoir, Brit explained her decision
03:13 to only narrate the intro and enlist Michelle to read the rest.
03:17 "I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true.
03:20 Lying quietly on those rocks, I felt God."
03:22 Explaining to ET in a statement that the book has been
03:26 "a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it.
03:29 Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least.
03:34 For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook."
03:38 Adding that she's so grateful for Michelle for taking on the task.
03:42 "You know what? I want to make something a little bit better,
03:44 and it- and I can be a part of that."
03:47 As for Michelle, she kept her own statement to the point.
03:50 "I stand with Britney."