Jessica Biel’s ‘ultimatum’ to Justin Timberlake: clean up your act or I’m leaving

In six months or so, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel will mark their 14th wedding anniversary. I still remember the People Mag cover with their wedding photos, Jessica sitting down in her pink wedding gown and Justin with his crazy eyes, captured mid-air in a jump. It did not bode well, but still, they’ve made it thirteen and a half years, and Jessica has stayed with Justin through multiple scandals and controversies. The latest scandal was his DUI in the Hamptons, and the recent release of the body-cam footage from the arresting officers. After every one of Justin’s scandals, we get stories about Jessica threatening to quit the marriage if he doesn’t shape up. He rarely takes the threats seriously. Well, the Daily Mail swears up and down that Jessica really will leave him if he doesn’t straighten out post-DUI.

For any couple, celebrating 14 years of marriage is surely an impressive feat. But for Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake – who recently suffered fresh embarrassment after footage from his DWI arrest was released – their relationship has publicly faced its ups and downs over the years.

There was, of course, Timberlake’s stumbling through sobriety tests, the questionable pictures with his younger co-star and renewed criticism for his alleged treatment of his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears after the release of her memoir. Indeed, he has experienced what some might describe as a fall from grace. So, it would be understandable to wonder exactly how Biel, 44, feels about her husband’s mounting indiscretions.

After all, the family’s permanent relocation from the prying eyes of Los Angeles to the remote mountains of Montana may signal that Biel is far more interested in living a private life than her headline-making husband, 45. While Biel has ‘turned a cheek’ to some of Timberlake’s public scandals, sources tell the Daily Mail, that could soon change. Biel, one source said, ‘has issued an ultimatum’ to Timberlake: Clean up his act, or she’ll leave.

The source claimed the actress has ‘had it’ with some of Timberlake’s recent behavior – including a recent trip to Las Vegas to host the 8AM Invitational golf tournament at the Wynn resort – especially after the release of his DWI bodycam footage in March. One more slip-up, the source said, and Biel will ‘pull the trigger.’

‘There’s not much more she can take,’ our source said of Biel, claiming that Timberlake is ‘never home’ despite his world tour wrapping last summer. ‘She does everything with the kids and she’s sick of being publicly embarrassed.’

A second insider told the Daily Mail: ‘Justin is the kind of guy that when he’s out, has always had a drink in his hand. Even back in his NSYNC prime, at his restaurant, on tour, he always liked to have a good time. When he proposed to Jessica she basically told him to settle down or she was out. She’s not afraid to give him an ultimatum, but I don’t see her leaving him anytime soon. They have been through a lot of deeply personal things together that have brought them closer. But it’s like she doesn’t know where he is or what he’s doing half the time when she’s not with him.’

[From The Daily Mail]

This isn’t rocket science, you guys. Jessica isn’t leaving, she’s not the kind of woman who leaves a relationship, even if the guy treats her like a sh-t. I don’t even think Timberlake is like that – while he’s scandal-prone, drunk and probably a major cheater, he doesn’t “treat Jessica like sh-t” – he’s just narcissistic, self-involved and mostly absent. Some women really do believe in “stand by your man.” Some women really do believe in “turning a blind eye” and “staying together for the children.” No judgment, life is complicated and so is marriage. My point is that if Jessica didn’t leave him after the DUI, she’s not leaving. If she didn’t leave him after he got drunkenly handsy with a costar in 2019, she’s not leaving. She can issue toothless threats and ultimatums all she wants, but Justin knows that she’s not going to follow through.

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12 Responses to “Jessica Biel’s ‘ultimatum’ to Justin Timberlake: clean up your act or I’m leaving”

  1. Graphinya Heather says:

    She’s not leaving. She knows that, and most importantly, he knows that. There is no real incentive for him to change except superficially for PR purposes.

  2. Tuesday says:

    The important bit is couched as speculation. The “some might say…he’s fallen from grace.” I believe that if being Mrs Timberlake no longer has cache, she’ll exit. She’ll get money, kids, public good will. It has always seemed to me that she loved being JT’s wife more than she loved JT.

  3. SIde Eye says:

    There were many, many signs. Two come to mind very quickly 1) he threw Janet Jackson under the bus and never looked back and 2) the People look at meeeeeeee wedding photos of Justin mugging.

    She’s not leaving which makes this ultimatum pathetic.

    When people are serious about leaving they don’t talk about it and threaten it. They just do it. My warning was filing the divorce papers. You shoulda had your shit together.

  4. SarahCS says:

    Of course she’s not leaving. If this in any way came from her team I hope all the people who know here are pointing out it’s making her look like a fool.

  5. Auntie Fah says:

    So being a major cheater isn’t treating her like shit? Hes just a narcissistic drunk.
    Wow the bar just dopped lower 😳 😅😅
    Feminism at its best

  6. Gabby says:

    So what changed this time Jessica? Because we all know it has been like this during your entire marriage to this unsexy, overrated, cocky, steal-ideas-from-black-artists, has-been manchild. Why now? Did you just realize you will never get those years back and you wasted them on this fucking guy?

  7. Rachel says:

    Honestly it seems like they spend very little time together and that probably helps her stay in the marriage.

  8. Meredith says:

    I’m guessing never-home JT is exactly the husband she wants. Most women I know with husbands who travel for work or work long shifts get divorced within months after the husband cuts his schedule. They want the social and economic benefits of being married, but not enough to actually deal with the husband being home all the time!

  9. Bqm says:

    She won’t leave him but it’s not accurate that she won’t leave a relationship. She dated Chris Evans from 2001-6 and, by her own words, he treated her wonderfully. And he was apparently ready to propose. She dumped him and soon moved on to Justin who was more famous at the time. Apart from an on/off with Minka Kelly (which always seemed more friends with benefits) Evans didn’t date anyone seriously until Jenny Slate a decade later.

  10. FYI says:

    I don’t know if she’s leaving or not, but if you cheat on your spouse you are, by definition, treating your spouse like shit. If monogamy isn’t your thing, **don’t get married.**

  11. jferber says:

    Meredith, yeah, I think you have something there. He has a lot of money and I’m guessing it’s at her disposal, or it had better be. Dealing with a not-there Justin and having access to the money, homes, shopping, vacations, etc. does not sound that bad. The worst of it is everyone knowing she’s married to that asshole Justin Timberlake. I’m sure he’s a shitty human being, but she’s made a deal that works for her, apparently. I don’t know if I’d be able to reject or walk away from a deal like that–just being honest.

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