When they started dating in 1999, it seemed only natural. While no one really knows what happened, the tabloids had a pretty good idea.

As Buzzfeed points out, magazines like Us Weekly were clearly Team Timberlake, intimating that Spears cheated on him.

The world that watched her breakdown has cheered her careful comeback over the years, as she’s had a slew of popular songs (her ninth album, “Glory,” is released Friday) and a hit residency in Las Vegas.

It’s the classic “road to redemption” narrative, and Spears has flourished.

“So they told us, ‘This is a helicopter shot, and it costs 0,000 every time the helicopter has to take off, so don’t f–k this up!

Despite being a teen film, it was so much more than that, with a witty, intelligent script and a perfect cast to pull it off, making it one of those movies that fans turn back to even 17 years later.

As the years have gone on, the director, screenwriters and the cast have spilled secrets here and there about filming and working together, leaving us with these 10 things we never knew about and the band, Letters to Cleo, makes a couple of appearances.

‘Cry Me a River’ was written in a moment of pain, and the whole world knew,” Timberlake said, alluding to his famous Spears break-up song.

Spears and Timberlake have been inextricably linked ever since they were both kids on “The Mickey Mouse Club” and into the late 1990s, when Timberlake took over the world as the lead singer of ‘N Sync and Spears was one of the most famous pop stars on the planet.