Jamie Lynn Spears felt like Justin Timberlake was a father figure when she was growing up.
During the first part of the 30-year-old's appearance Alex Cooper's "Call Her Daddy" podcast, she reflected on Britney Spears' relationship with the former *NSYNC member\.
The Zoey 101 revealed that her father, Jamie, was not around much when she was growing up because of his struggles with alcohol. She explained that her brother, Bryan, was a stable figure in her life. She said that Britney even offered to buy their mom, Lynne, a house if she left Jamie.
Jamie Lynn admitted that one of the first healthy male father figures in her life was the "Say Something" singer. She said the period of time when Justin and Britney were together was a good time in everyone in her family's life, which might be why she remembers him fondly. She added that he was very "thoughtful."
Jamie Lynn said that she didn't know everything about Britney and Justin's relationship.
At the time, she thought their relationship would last forever. "I was so sad, first off because my sister was so sad, but that, too, was the first time I saw that maybe I didn't know everything about the relationship. Perhaps they were protecting me and obviously why would they talk to me about anything," she said of the split.
She said she doesn't know why Britney and Justin split up, but she thought her sister was heartbroken when "Cry Me a River" came out.
"Don't get me wrong, like, that's a way to launch your solo career, right? That's a way to do it, but I felt really sad. And my sister, she wrote that song 'Everytime' and she's beyond brilliant with anything creative and she picked that song out on the piano and she wrote it and it still makes me cry because I think about how heartbroken she was, because that was her song and that was his song," she explained.
Justin issued a public apology to Britney, in the aftermath of the Framing Britney Spears documentary last year. He said that he has a lot of respect for Britney and Janet Jackson, but "failed" them. "I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to the problem, where I spoke out of turn, or did not speak up for what was right," he wrote at the time.
