Justin Timberlake Admits Being Famous His Whole Life is Problematic

Many of us “normal” human beings don’t sympathize with celebrities.  It’s very hard to.  They are famous, have unlimited supplies of money, and are treated as the elite in society.  So feeling bad for a guy like Justin Timberlake rarely enters our psyche.  But if you stop and think about it, the rigors of being a celebrity are just as difficult as the ones we face.  While we may struggle to make ends meet financially, celebrities are exposed to a life that isn’t “real” by conventional sense.

When you’ve achieved so much from a career and finance perspective life can get boring.  There are only so many jets you can fly, relationships you can have, and cars you can drive.  It’s why many celebrities turn to drugs.  They are seeking out something new in life, a different feeling that they can’t get from their celebrity status.  Again, not easy to sympathize with but it’s certainly easy to understand.

Justin Timberlake recently admitted in an interview that his life is far from normal and much of that is because he never had a regular life.  He’s been a celebrity since he’s been a child.  Here’s what Timberlake had to say:

“You go through your life with your own traumas, big and small, and think, ‘It’s not that bad, I have a lot to be thankful for, my parents did the best they could,’” Timberlake, 36, told The Hollywood Reporter. But then you have a child of your own, and suddenly it opens all the floodgates, and you’re like, ‘No, no, no! That childhood trauma really did mess me up!’”

“I was about 15 or 16 years old. We’d just given a concert in Germany at a festival on this huge field. And we were in the tour bus afterwards, driving on a dirt road, and I looked out the window and saw all these young, impressionable females running after the bus,” he recalled. I think we can all agree that I did not have a normal childhood … I have some faint images from my childhood, but no, I can’t really remember not being famous.”

The singer, actor admits that balancing work and parenting is a struggle.   Just remember, we’re all human.

Excerpts from The New York Post

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