Justin Timberlake turns off Instagram comments after the release of his ex Britney Spears’ book due to the ‘hateful’ things people were saying

Just days after the release of his ex Britney Spears book The Woman In Me, Justin Timberlake has turning off comments on his Instagram.

Timberlake, 42, and Spears, 41, dated for three years between 1999 and 2002, with Spears revealing in her new book that she got an abortion.

She also revealed that Timberlake, ‘wasn’t happy’ about the pregnancy and didn’t want to be a father so young, which lead to the abortion.

While Timberlake hasn’t publicly responded to any of the claims Spears made in her book, which was published on Tuesday, he did turn off Instragram comments.

A source told Page Six that the decision was made because of the, ‘hateful, disgusting things people were saying’ which comes days after sources claimed he was ‘not happy’ with Spears’ revelations in the book.

Justin: Just days after the release of his ex Britney Spears book The Woman In Me, Justin Timberlake has turning off comments on his Instagram

Britney’s book: While Timberlake hasn’t publicly responded to any of the claims Spears made in her book, which was published on Tuesday, he did turn off Instragram comments

Timberlake hasn’t posted on his Instagram for nearly a month, when his reunion song with NSYNC – Better Place – was released on September 29.

The singer and actor posted a brief video with his NSYNC bandmates – J.C. Chasez, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick – discussing their new song.

Britney claims in the book that she got an abortion when she was just 19 years of age because he wasn’t ready to be a father so young.

‘It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day,’ Britney wrote.

‘This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young,’ she added.

‘If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father,’ she added.

‘To this day, it’s one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life,’ Spears writes of the abortion.

Earlier this week, a source told Daily Mail, ‘Justin has not reached out to Britney at all about any of this and he is not going to because there is nothing he can say to her.’

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New song: The singer and actor posted a brief video with his NSYNC bandmates – J.C. Chasez, Joey Fatone, Lance Bass and Chris Kirkpatrick – discussing their new song

So young: Britney claims in the book that she got an abortion when she was just 19 years of age because he wasn’t ready to be a father so young

Tragedy: ‘It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day,’ Britney wrote

Not ready: ‘This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated. But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young,’ she added

‘She was there and is just telling it from her point of view,’ the source added.

‘That does not mean he is okay with it. Justin is not at all happy about what has come out in this book.’

They added: ‘Doing this book has given Britney life and she really doesn’t care who is offended by anything in it because it is what happened.

‘She was there and lived through it. No one can say anything. She has got this all out of her and is moving on now.’

A second insider claimed the ‘baggage’ from Britney’s memoir has been ‘stressful’ for Justin and his wife Jessica, whose wedding anniversary on October 19 was overshadowed.

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