Fake Claim About Justin Timberlake Drug Use Goes Viral Amid DWI Scandal

Customers are repeating rumors from a parody account.

Social media is spreading an alleged Justin Timberlake drug use story, coinciding with the singer’s current arrest for driving whereas intoxicated (DWI) in New York. The false declare, originating from a parody X account referred to as “PooCrave,” was broadly circulated with none vetting.

The submit in query stated, “Justin Timberlake allegedly had traces of molly, poppers, Truvada, and coke in his bloodstream following his DWI arrest in New York.” Although the supply was uncertain, customers took the declare at face worth, spreading the allegations additional. Nevertheless, some people have identified the necessity to fact-check the data, urging others to “google Poo Crave” earlier than blindly accepting the rumors.

Timberlake was reportedly arrested for driving whereas intoxicated within the Hamptons. A number of shops, together with Good Morning America and Newsday, reported Tuesday that the singer, 43, was arrested on a doable DWI cost Monday night time in Sag Harbor, New York.

A supply instructed PEOPLE that Timberlake was pulled over and arrested for driving whereas intoxicated or impaired after leaving the America Resort in Sag Harbor, the place he reportedly had dinner. The singer was allegedly taken into police custody whereas on his option to a pal’s home. The supply added that “no one was damage.”

Apparently, Timberlake’s current DWI arrest has dropped at mild a confession he made 18 years in the past about his previous drug use. In a 2006 interview with the British journal Observer Music Month-to-month, the SexyBack singer, now 43, admitted, “I’ve carried out means too many medicine already. I’ve already inhaled and I’ve already … who is aware of?” He additional acknowledged, “I am identical to everybody else, I get utterly plastered, I’ve carried out my fair proportion of medication and I have been caught locations with my pants down,” including, “It is simply I be certain there aren’t any cameras round.”

The resurfacing of those previous admissions has added gas to the hearth surrounding Timberlake’s current authorized troubles. The pop star’s arrest occurred simply two days after he celebrated Father’s Day and obtained reward from his spouse, Jessica Biel, who referred to him as a “rock.”

Timberlake, a father of two, took to social media on Father’s Day to share heartfelt photographs of his sons, Silas, 9, and Phineas, 3, expressing his gratitude for the chance to be their father. In his submit, he wrote, “I study extra about myself on a regular basis simply since you each selected me to be your Daddy. I’ll all the time be there for you thru your peaks and valleys, to carry you up and present you the way excessive you possibly can take this life and to select you up once you fall.”