And you thought your last break-up was harsh.

During the Sam Lufti/Britney Spears‘ trial last week, Brit’s legal team proclaimed that her well-publicized break-up with Justin Timberlake is the reason the starlet went off the deep end back in 2008.

A lawyer for Britney and her mother, Lynne made the surprising claim on Friday, saying that before the two of them dated, Britney was a “ray of light”, but at the end (which many believe came when she cheated; a thought written into song by both she and Justin), she was “angered and depressed”.

Now, I’m not taking sides here, but are they seriously forgetting that Britney had another serious relationship following that?

Her marriage to Kevin Federline was in 2004, two years after she and Justin had ended their courtship. Kind of hard to blame an ex after you’ve married someone else. Just sayin’.

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