Britney Spears Opens Up About 'Passionate' 2-Week Fling With Colin Farrell
Britney Spears and Colin Farrell
Britney Spears is sharing another bombshell from her love life in her upcoming book, but this time it's not Justin Timberlake she's talking about.
Instead, the "Toxic" songstress detailed her former romance with Irish actor Colin Farrell, whom she briefly dated in the early 2000s.
In an excerpt from her highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, obtained by TIME, Spears, 41, divulged all the details about the pair's short-lived fling, claiming that she and Farrell, 47, were "all over each other" for 2 straight weeks after being set up by a "club promoter friend."
She visited him on the set of his 2003 movie S.W.A.T. at the time, where she said they went on to start up a "two-week brawl."
"Brawl is the only word for it—we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” she wrote of her time with The Banshees of Inisherin star.
But the Princess of Pop remembered not being completely healed from her breakup with Timberlake, now 42, when she attended the premiere of Farrell's 2003 film, The Recruit.
"As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal, that we were just having fun, that in this case, I was vulnerable because I wasn’t over Justin yet," she wrote in her pages.
According to Page Six, Farrell told reporters at the premiere that he and Spears were "not dating."
"She’s a sweet, sweet girl. There’s nothing going on—just mates," he claimed at the time, which reportedly prompted Spears to leave the event “as soon as the paparazzi were gone.”
In the excerpt from her book from TIME, Spears didn't spill any more details about the fallout of her fling with Farrell, but she admitted that "for a brief moment in time," she "did think there could be something there."
"The disappointments in my romantic life were just one part of how isolated I became," she divulged in the book, which has already been garnering tons of buzz over its juicy contents.
The Woman in Me officially hits bookshelves on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
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