“I promise to make it up to you and give you the show y’all deserve,” the “SexyBack” singer wrote on Instagram.

New Jersey’s Justin Timberlake fan contingent just took a massive hit.

“I’m so sorry to postpone tonight’s show,” Timberlake wrote on Instagram ahead of Tuesday’s planned show at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. “I have an injury that is preventing me from performing. I’m so disappointed to not see you all – but I’m working to reschedule ASAP.”

The NSYNCer and “SexyBack” singer is currently in the midst of the “Forget Tomorrow World Tour” that launched a thousand memes. After Timberlake was arrested on a DWI charge in June, Page Six reported that Timberlake told the arresting officer, “This is going to ruin the tour.” The officer, who reportedly didn’t recognize Timberlake, asked, “What tour?” “The world tour,” Timberlake replied.

“I promise to make it up to you and give you the show y’all deserve,” Timberlake continued in his postponement announcement. “Thank you guys for understanding. Appreciate your support always.”

Representatives for Timberlake did not immediately respond to Entertainment Weekly‘s request for comment.


Kevin Winter/Getty Justin Timberlake at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards

 

Timberlake took a week to address the June DWI arrest, telling fans on stage at the Chicago stop of the “Forget Tomorrow” tour, “We’ve been together through ups and downs, lefts and rights… It’s been a tough week, but you’re here and I’m here, and nothing can change this moment right now.”

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After initially pleading “not guilty” to his revised misdemeanor charge of drunk driving, Timberlake had his license suspended in August. The presiding judge at that hearing admonished Timberlake’s lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., for insisting that his client wasn’t intoxicated at the time of arrest, and for alleging that “the police made a number of very significant errors in this case.”

 

“It comes off as an attempt to poison the case before it even begins,” Sag Harbor Village Justice Carl Irace said. Irace noted that if Burke continued this line of assertion, Burke would demand Timberlake appear before him in person, which would mean more postponements of world tour dates.


Sag Harbor Police Department Justin Timberlake’s 2024 mug shot© Provided by Entertainment Weekly

There are 60 dates remaining on the “Forget Tomorrow World Tour.” If Timberlake isn’t inhibited further by his injury, the tour will take him throughout the country, across Canada and Mexico, down through South America, and over to Europe, the U.K., Ireland, and a final stop at Paris’s Lollapalooza festival in July 2025.