A Complete Timeline of Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's Infamous Relationship

The future superstars first met in the early '90s when they were both cast on the revival of the popular kids' variety show The Mickey Mouse Club. Justin left the show in 1994, when he recruited fellow Mouseketeer JC Chasez to start a boy band, which soon became *NSYNC. Britney, on the other hand, stayed with the show until its 1996 cancellation.

The former costars reunited a few years after the end of the show, and they were publicly dating by early 1999. By 2001, they were living together when not on tour, according to an interview in The Observer, and Britney gushed about him and their relationship.

"When people [in the public] get too personal, it bothers me. But I'm not ashamed at all to say that I love him from the bottom of my heart. As far as love is concerned, with him, too much is not enough. He's everything," she mused. "It is a deeper love now than when I was younger. Like, we've gone through so much together and we've known each other since we were 12 years old. We know each other inside and out."

At the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXV, Britney and Justin performed together as part of the MTV-produced show. The performance included Aerosmith, *NSYNC, Britney, Mary J. Blige, Nelly, and Tremors featuring The Earthquake Horns.

In 2002, the couple abruptly split, and, pretty quickly, Justin snagged the role of victim, going on interview circuits and talking about being cheated on while also slut-shaming Britney. Some of these clips made it into the Framing Britney Spears documentary.

"He has gone on television and pretty much said you broke his heart," Diane Sawyer said in one interview clip. "You did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering — what did you do?"

Justin also bragged about sleeping with Britney in several different interviews — occasionally alluding to graphic details — and, during one Barbara Walters interview, outright laughed when Walters asked if Britney had kept her promise to wait until marriage to have sex.

"The way that people treated her, to be very high school about it, was like she was the school slut and he was the quarterback," New York Times critic at large Wesley Morris says in the documentary.