Britney Spears Lifetime Biopic: Fans, Celebrities Not Happy; Did Singer And Ex Justin Timberlake Had A Sex Tape?

Lifetime is getting another backlash for their supposedly “true-to-life” adaptations for TV. The unauthorized Britney Spears biopic “Britney Ever After” debuted on Lifetime TV on Saturday, to the uproar of fans, and even celebrities. The movie follows Spear’s rise from her “Mickey Mouse Club” heydays to her career peak and through the much-publicized breakdown in 2007.

Sydney Morning Herald said fans took their disappointment on Twitter, noting the biopic’s several inaccuracies, low budget production, and wooden acting starting from the actress who played the iconic singer, Australian actress Natasha Bassett. Bassett, who had a breakout role in the George Clooney starrer “Hail Caeser!,” was also panned for her hillbilly accent.

A viewer’s tweet read about Bassett’s acting chops in the TV movie, "Where did y'all find this actress playing Britney? This just ruined her career before it started."

Even celebrities could not believe the biopic. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” star Sarah Michelle Gellar even live-tweeted her distaste about the biopic. One of her tweets read, “Who lit this movie #britneyeverafter and why does he hate women?”

One of the most cringeworthy claims of “Britney Ever After” is that Spears and Timberlake, who were boyfriend-girlfriend at one point, filmed a sex tape. The biopic went to lengths building this story arc by showing how the sex tape went missing in a robbery . Bustle said fans were livid with the claim considering they was no evidence to support that claim. Spears’ camp also has since denied involvement in the biopic, and that the TV has no blessings from the superstar.

If there’s any consolation though, Lifetime did put up a disclaimer about the biopic at the end, which read, "Although based on a true story, some characters are fictionalized composites, and some events have been compressed, reorganized or fictionalized for purposes of dramatization."