When local police in Sag Harbor, New York saw a BMW run a stop sign, then weave between highway lanes in Tuesday’s early hours just past midnight, they were duty-bound to pull the driver over, according to a CBS News report. Little did they suspect that the culprit was Millington, Tennessee native, onetime Disney Mouseketeer, and pop phenom Justin Timberlake. In any case, he was charged with driving while intoxicated.
The CBS story notes that “when Timberlake was pulled over, the officer said he was ‘in an intoxicated condition’ and that ‘his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath,’ and he ‘performed poorly on all standard field sobriety tests.'”
But the musical superstar had something to say about that. “I had one martini and I followed my friends home,” Timberlake allegedly told the officer, according to CBS. “He also allegedly refused to do a chemical test,” continued the report.
The singer/songwriter/producer/actor was last seen in Memphis this January, as reported by Samuel X. Cicci, where he debuted a new song, “Selfish.” That foreshadowed the release of his sixth album in March, Everything I Thought It Was. In April, he launched The Forget Tomorrow World Tour, which is scheduled to carry on internationally through this year. He has shows scheduled in Chicago this weekend and at New York’s Madison Square Garden next Tuesday.
Those shows will likely go on as planned: after being formally charged, the former Mouseketeer was released without bail on his own recognizance, with a virtual court appearance scheduled for July 26th. In other words, concertgoers are encouraged to not forget tomorrow.
