{"id":35907,"date":"2025-07-31T21:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35907\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:58:11","slug":"justin-timberlake-says-he-has-lyme-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35907\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Timberlake says he has Lyme disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFP<\/p>\n<p>31 Jul, 2025 07:22 PM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Justin Timberlake performing in Italy, on June 2, 2025. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pop star Justin Timberlake has announced that he has Lyme disease, a condition he described as \u201crelentlessly debilitating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 44-year-old former NSYNC frontman, whose world tour has just wrapped up, took to Instagram in reflective mood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         \u201cThis has been the most fun, emotional, gratifying, physically demanding and, at times, gruelling<br \/>\n         experience,\u201d he said of a tour that was criticised by some fans as being lacklustre.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"vRHWdcbqYJgzoMPYBB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAmong other things, I\u2019ve been battling some health issues, and was diagnosed with Lyme disease \u2013 which I don\u2019t say so you feel bad for me \u2013 but to shed some light on what I\u2019ve been up against behind the scenes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vRHWdcbqYJgzoMPYBB\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cLiving with this can be relentlessly debilitating, both mentally and physically. When I first got the diagnosis I was shocked for sure. But at least I could understand why I would be onstage and in a massive amount of nerve pain or just feeling crazy fatigue or sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AFP 31 Jul, 2025 07:22 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32613,64,63,447,24813,32616,32614,8112,134,1631,1642,19615,32612,32615,4215,4031,9501,32611],"class_list":["post-35907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-announced","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-condition","tag-debilitating","tag-described","tag-disease","tag-entertainment","tag-has","tag-he","tag-justin","tag-lyme","tag-relentlessly","tag-says","tag-star","tag-that","tag-timberlake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}