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Justin Timberlake’s Lyme Disease ‘Changed’ Him, Singer’s Determined to ‘Be the Best Version of Himself’
National Enquirer ^ | August 14, 2025 | Doug Montero

Posted on 08/15/2025 11:39:18 AM PDT by Red Badger

Humbled Justin Timberlake has a long road ahead as he grapples with Lyme disease, and sources tell the National Enquirer the diagnosis has motivated him to change his ways — including a vow to save his rocky marriage to Jessica Biel.

“This illness has really changed Justin. His ‘nothing can touch me’ attitude is gone,” reports an insider.

Timberlake revealed he had been living with debilitating Lyme disease throughout his Forget Tomorrow world tour, which wrapped July 30 in Istanbul, Turkey.

“I’ve been battling some health issues, and was diagnosed with Lyme disease … living with this can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically,” Justin shared on social media.

An insider says it’s a big wake-up call for the 44-year-old “SexyBack” singer: “He’s telling people he needs to take his stress levels way down if he wants to get better. He can’t push himself nonstop anymore.”

“And it’s his wife and kids he wants to give his energy to, not work and partying!”

As readers know, Justin and 43-year-old Jessica’s marriage has been feeling the strain. First, there was his DWI last year, which he managed to downgrade to the lesser charge of DWAI, driving while ability impaired. Then he was filmed berating his crew over sound issues while on stage at England’s Lytham Festival.

“It’s no secret their marriage has taken some hits lately with his questionable behavior, but Justin is adamant that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to hang on to Jess. He says that without her, his life is empty,” says the insider.

“He’s vowing to dial back the ego and make more time for family. He’s even started talking about taking a real break from work for the first time in years.”

While the diagnosis has shaken Timberlake, it’s also forced him to open his eyes, sources say.

“Jessica has been incredible through all of it. She’s his rock, the one who keeps everything together, and he’s so grateful,” reveals the insider. “It’s made him feel pretty shabby for all the stress he’s put her though, but his goal now is to be the best version of himself.”


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1 posted on 08/15/2025 11:39:18 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

I’ve suffered from the residual effects of lymes for a dozen years- babesia specifically- miserable

I know of someone on RFK Jrs chronic disease committee and they are looking into lymes


2 posted on 08/15/2025 11:52:40 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America

bump


3 posted on 08/15/2025 12:29:56 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator ( Now open: DOW - Department of Winning)
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To: Red Badger

Isn’t Lyme disease a bio weapon that was in containment like COVID?


4 posted on 08/15/2025 12:34:36 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't taking no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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To: Red Badger

So he won’t be offering his “D___ In A Box” anymore?


5 posted on 08/15/2025 12:35:38 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Clutch Martin

See my earlier post about having lymes. There is a belief the US government was developing the disease to spread it through ticks.

Lots of tick borne illness specialists say if the government came clean about what they did and what’s in the tick it would be much easier to find a cure/remedy


6 posted on 08/15/2025 12:39:17 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Clutch Martin

I think tics carried disease before the 1950’s but the boys at Plum Island made that disease worse, I guaran-damn-tee it.


7 posted on 08/15/2025 12:40:07 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: God luvs America

Another recently-discovered tick-borne illness is the allergy to red meat. Well, the allergy has been around for some time now, it’s just the role of the tick that has been recently discovered. Can you guess what came next? A journal article was published urging that that particular tick be widely distributed in order to create a pandemic of allergy to red meat! No kidding. What do you bet the authors are militant vegans?


8 posted on 08/15/2025 1:01:13 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Blurb2350

A few celebs lately have “Lyme disease” also known as drug use.
It was named “exhaustion” in olden days that required a stay at a hospital.


9 posted on 08/15/2025 1:06:50 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: God luvs America
I know of someone on RFK Jrs chronic disease committee and they are looking into lymes

Will you please ask them this for me...Why are chronic pain patients paying the consequences of dirty doctors, clinics and addicts?

They moved their "dope" over to methadone and suboxone clinics that cost more and the addicts sell them just like they did before the "opioid epidemic."

They've also pushed medicare and medicaid patients in highly controversial expensive procedures which in most cases does not work and refuse to give them God's medicine for quality of life.

Please please please ask for me.
10 posted on 08/15/2025 1:12:11 PM PDT by ssfromla
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To: dfwgator

Funny song, gotta admit. I have it on my Rock Christmas mix cd.


11 posted on 08/15/2025 1:30:49 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ssfromla

I’ll try but I don’t speak directly with the person working with RFK Jr rather her mother in law

The girl working with RFK Jr had devastating effects from lymes


12 posted on 08/15/2025 1:46:01 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Red Badger
From the article: ...but Justin is adamant that he’s willing to do whatever it takes to hang on to Jess. He says that without her, his life is empty,” says the insider.

If that's true, she's already repulsed by him.

13 posted on 08/15/2025 2:22:38 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Red Badger

Had a friend of mine get Lyme’s disease. It was discovered far to late. She went from an awesome funny individual, full of life and I considered the little sister I never had and would do anything for to a withdrawn, paranoid individual with bizarre outburst when she was finally diagnosed. She had a permanent stint installed for massive amounts of antibiotics that never worked. Lost her 2 years ago. She was a shell of her former self.

My oldest daughter also got it but I was adamnt about getting tested yearly and they caught it early.

My understanding is whenever they catch it, diagnosed etc, you never get better from that point. You can’t reverse it but you can stop it from that point on.

Hell of a disease.


14 posted on 08/15/2025 3:29:18 PM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: God luvs America

It’s “Lyme Disease”, named after the town of Lyme, Connecticut where the first identified rash of cases occurred.


15 posted on 08/15/2025 3:37:04 PM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Notwithstanding the merits of Lyme Disease...Yolanda Hadid is a picture of a celeb with Lyme Disease trying to hang onto a man.


16 posted on 08/15/2025 3:39:13 PM PDT by RummyChick ( )
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To: Red Badger

Our cat was bitten by a tick carrying bobcat fever. She died; it’s almost always fatal. I don’t know if humans are immune. I hate ticks!


17 posted on 08/15/2025 4:10:24 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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