Justin Timberlake resumed his Overlook Tomorrow World Tour in Chicago on Friday, June 21, simply days after his arrest for driving whereas intoxicated.
The singer, 43, carried out at United Heart, the place he addressed his current authorized troubles, an eyewitness tells Us Weekly.
“It’s been a troublesome week,” Timberlake stated whereas introducing his “Egocentric” efficiency. “I do know generally I’m laborious to like, however you retain on loving me and I really like you proper again.”
Earlier this week, Us confirmed that Timberlake was arrested within the Hamptons on Tuesday, June 18. Based on an announcement from the Sag Harbor Police Division, Timberlake was noticed “failing to cease at a duly posted cease signal and failing to take care of his lane of journey.”
“A visitors cease was initiated by a police officer from the Sag Harbor Village Police Division and upon investigation it was decided that Mr. Timberlake was working his car in an intoxicated situation,” the assertion continued. “Mr. Timberlake was positioned beneath arrest, processed and held in a single day for morning arraignment. Mr. Timberlake was arraigned on the Sag Harbor Village Justice Courtroom on June 18, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. the place he was launched on his personal recognizance.”
At his arraignment, Timberlake was formally charged with one depend of driving whereas intoxicated, along with his subsequent courtroom date scheduled for July 26. “The cost was a single depend as a result of he refused the breath take a look at,” his lawyer, Ed Burke, advised Us on the time. “Mr. Timberlake was additionally charged with two different courtroom citations, working a cease signal and never touring within the right visitors lane.”
Based on courtroom paperwork obtained by CNN, Timberlake allegedly advised police in the course of the visitors cease that he “had one martini and I adopted my buddies dwelling.” His eyes had been allegedly “bloodshot and glassy,” and there was a “robust odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his breath.”
One police officer claimed within the report that Timberlake had “slowed speech,” “was unsteady afoot” and “carried out poorly on all standardized area sobriety assessments.” He additionally rejected a breathalyzer take a look at 3 times.
Timberlake kicked off his first tour in 5 years, the Overlook Tomorrow World Tour, in Vancouver in April in help of his sixth studio album, All the pieces I Thought It Was. He’ll take the stage at United Heart in Chicago once more on Saturday, June 22, earlier than heading to Madison Sq. Backyard in New York the next week. The tour is scheduled to run by means of December, when it should conclude with a present in Kansas Metropolis.
Regardless of Timberlake’s newest scandal, his spouse, Jessica Biel — with whom he shares sons Silas, 9, and Phineas, 3 — appeared unbothered whereas filming her upcoming present, The Higher Sister, in New York Metropolis on Tuesday.
Final month, Biel, 42, described her marriage to Timberlake as a “work in progress” throughout an look on The View, explaining that the couple — who tied the knot in October 2012 — are “always looking for the steadiness” amid their busy schedules.
Biel famous on the time that Timberlake’s tour additional difficult their dynamic. “I’m already exhausted — there’s been 4 exhibits! Oh, my God!” she stated. “I don’t know the way he’s gonna do it. I don’t know the way we’re gonna do it, however we’re gonna get by means of it. By some means, someway.”
Reporting by Sarah Wynn
