Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are facing renewed'divorce' speculationafter reports claimed that the actress has grown exhausted with her husband's behaviour in the wake of his 2024 drink-driving arrest.
According to sources quoted byHeat, Biel is said to be 'fed-up' with what she sees as Timberlake's self-pity and has told the singer he must 'clean up his act' or risk the marriage. This comes after months of low-level concern around the couple, who have been dogged by rumours of strain for years.
Timberlake, 45, and Biel, 44, married in 2012 and share two sons, 11-year-old Silas and five-year-old Phineas. They were last photographed together in public two months before his arrest, and Biel has not posted about her husband on social media since February, fuelling online speculation that all is not well at home.
At the centre of the latest tension isTimberlake's arrest for drink-driving in 2024and, more recently, the release of the police footage he had attempted to keep from public view. The video, made public in March, showed theCry Me A Riverstar struggling through roadside sobriety tests after officers said he drove through a stop sign and veered onto the wrong side of the road.
Timberlake later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of impaired driving and paid a $500 fine. The footage, however, proved far more costly in terms of reputation. Clips of him telling officers 'I'm Justin Timberlake' and 'I'm doing a world tour' went viral, and his complaint in the video that he was being treated 'like a criminal' drew sharp criticism online.
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This is not the first time Timberlake's off-screen behaviour has collided awkwardly with his publicly curated image as a family man. In 2019, he was forced to apologise after being photographed holding hands with hisPalmerco-star Alisha Wainwright during a night out, an incident he later described as 'an embarrassing situation.'
At the time, Biel did not comment publicly, but the couple later appeared together in carefully staged photographs and social media posts, as if to signal unity. Privately, though, the tone now sounds rather different. An insider quoted in the latest report said Biel has grown weary of having to absorb the fallout from her husband's choices.
'Jessica's sympathetic to a degree, but only has so much bandwidth for his moaning and griping,' the source claimed, describing Timberlake's reaction to the renewed scrutiny over the arrest.
'It's self-obsessed and downright childish how he heaps all his frustrations and anxieties on everyone around him. Jessica's the one who suffers most in all this, because she has to be around Justin and his horrible moods.'
Source: International Business Times UK
