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<p><a href="https://thedailybeast.com/keyword/britney-spears">Britney Spears</a> says she suffered a “panic attack” after bumping into her ex-boyfriend <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/justin-timberlake">Justin Timberlake</a> 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.</p>
<p>Writing in her new memoir <em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/britney-spears-says-shes-moved-on-from-bombshells-detailed-in-memoir">The Woman in Me</a></em>, 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.</p>
<p>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.” </p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/britney-spears-had-a-justin-timberlake-related-panic-attack-at-2007-vmas">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
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.”
