Before Channing, Jenna Dewan dated Justin (when he split from Britney)

Jenna Dewan Tatum has finally confirmed the rumours that she and Justin Timberlake were once an item.

Yes, it’s hard to imagine a time before Jenna and Channing, and Justin and Jessica, but there was and apparently Jenna and Justin spent some of that time together. Jenna has confirmed that she and the pop superstar dated briefly after his split from Britney Spears many moons ago.

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“We dated, yes,” she told Andy Cohen in an interview. “Not that long. We were like friends that then dated.” And what’s even weirder about this story is that this was back in 2002. Yep, it’s been 15 years since Britney and Justin split.

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Anyway, we digress. Jenna was, at the time, a backup dancer for Justin and as they say, one thing led to another. “I was dancing with him after the breakup. Like during-after the breakup. But I was not the rebound.”