Britney Spears blasts Christina Aguilera's 2003 Rolling Stone cover with her ex Justin Timberlake in memoir: 'It felt like they were just pouring salt in the wound'

Britney Spears blasted pop rival Christina 'Xtina' Aguilera for deciding to team up with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake for The Justified & Stripped Tour in 2003 - a year after the couple's bitter split. Britney Spears blasted pop rival Christina 'Xtina' Aguilera for deciding to team up with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake for The Justified & Stripped Tour in 2003 - a year after the couple's bitter split Deep: The talented trio had originally met as children starring as Mouseketeers on The Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club from 1993-1994 where Britney and Christina shared a dressing room Britney continued: 'Even if they weren't trying to be cruel, it felt like they were just pouring salt in the wound. I don't think it's over' The 41-year-old Grammy winner wrote in her memoir The Woman In Me: 'They were together on the cover of Rolling Stone, him in a black tank top, looking at her with sexy eyes, her looking out at the camera, wearing a lace-up black shirt' Britney wrote: 'In that story, she said she thought Justin and I should get back together, which was just confusing, given how negative she'd been elsewhere' Spears continued: 'Even if they weren't trying to be cruel, it felt like they were just pouring salt in the wound. At the time, Christina told Blender the semi-retired pop star 'seemed nervous the whole time' backstage like 'a lost little girl, someone who needs guidance' After Britney heard Aguilera's comments she scoffed to the same outlet in 2004: 'When someone has been rude to you so many times, it's like, "You know what, Christina, I'm really not about the fake anymore"' So perhaps that's why the Staten Island-born, half-Ecuadorian singer stammered as Jimmy Kimmel asked her last week if she wanted to be included in The Woman In Me: 'I'd rather be it you than me!'