By CFJCToday

Hindsight from Justin Timberlake Is Out!

Oct 31, 2018 | 6:15 AM

Justin Timberlake’s autobiographical new book Hindsight is out now, and in it, he tells some very personal stories. According to E! Online, one of them involves the moment he found out that he and his wife Jessica Biel were going to be parents.

Justin writes, “I was on the 20/20 Experience Tour when my life changed forever. I was in Detroit and pulling a week or two by myself because my wife was in Los Angeles, but was coming to visit me in a few days. I had just finished a show, and I go into my car and took my phone out. There was a text from Jess, in all capital letters. It read ‘Call Me Now.’”

He continues, “I FaceTimed her back immediately. She answered with this look on her face, and I knew exactly what she was going to say. Instead, she just held up the pregnancy test, and we both started bawling. I ended the tour early so I could be at home and take care of my family.”

“My last show was in Las Vegas, on January 2, 2015,” he adds. “Three months later, I was a father.”

As for his son Silas, Justin says being his dad has “made me look at relationships in a new way.”

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“It’s made me think about who my parents are as people, and how that affected me then and has contributed to who I am now – and how all that might affect my child,” he explains. “It makes me wonder how my son will see me when he grows up. It makes me want to be more thoughtful.”

Timberlake also recalled finding out about the auditions for The Mickey Mouse Club while driving back home from his time on Star Search. He and his mother turned back around and tried out. After performing a sketch and one of the songs he did for Ed McMahon, he was asked, “Why do you want to be on the Mickey Mouse Club’?” His answer: “I’m in it for the money.” Apparently, that did the trick, because he ended up being on the show alongside Ryan Gosling, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. “

Though he only mentions Britney by name once while referring to his MMC costars, Timberlake does write in detail about his one song that’s reportedly about her: “Cry Me a River.” While talking about the writing process, he recalled feeling “scorned” and “pissed off,” adding that those feelings “inspired me to write ‘Cry Me a River’.”

“I wrote ‘Cry Me a River’ in two hours. I didn’t plan on writing it,” he continued. “The feelings I had were so strong that I had to write it, and I translated my feelings into a form where people could listen and, hopefully, relate to it. People heard me and they understood it because we’ve all been there.”