Summary
- Bodycam footage from Justin Timberlake’s June 2024 DWI arrest in Sag Harbor, NY was released Friday after he dropped his lawsuit to block it.
- The video shows Timberlake struggling through field sobriety tests, stumbling, and telling officers, “These are, like, hard tests.”
- A friend on the scene tried to invoke *NSYNC’s greatest hits to sway officers — and it actually worked.
Well, the footage is out. After spending the better part of early 2026 trying to keep it locked away, Justin Timberlake has lost the battle against his own bodycam.
Police bodycam footage from Timberlake’s 2024 DWI arrest was released via the Sag Harbor Express on Friday (March 20, 2026) evening, showing officers pulling him over after witnessing him veering across lanes. The roughly eight-hour video is everything you’d expect from a late-night Hamptons traffic stop — and then some.
The footage was published by The Sag Harbor Express, a local outlet that sought its release through a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request filed by its parent company, The Express News Group. So yes, a small Long Island paper did what JT’s legal team couldn’t stop.
The footage runs roughly eight hours and includes Timberlake’s initial stop after Sag Harbor police said he ran a stop sign in the village center, veered out of his lane, and got out of his BMW smelling of alcohol that June.
When an officer asks what he’s doing in town, Timberlake replies, “I’m on a world tour. Hard to explain. A world tour. I’m Justin Timberlake.” A sentence that is simultaneously a flex and an explanation that explains nothing.
Timberlake says, “Guys, I’m just following my friends back to my house,” his speech slow and seemingly slurred. He also told officers he’d had one martini — a claim the footage does not exactly corroborate.
This is where things get hard to watch, depending on your level of JT loyalty.
The body camera video shows Timberlake struggling to follow instructions as officers asked him to walk heel-to-toe in a straight line and stand on one leg.
He also appeared to have difficulty with a test requiring him to lift one foot six inches off the ground and count aloud. “Sorry, my heart is racing,” he says. “These are like, really hard tests.”
At times, he seems flustered listening to the instructions. “I’m a little nervous,” Timberlake says at one point. A short time later, he’s in handcuffs.
Just as Timberlake was placed in handcuffs, a female friend — he had been out with her and her husband that night — showed up on the scene and offered to drive his car.
She was apoplectic about officers taking him into custody, asking, “You’re arresting Justin Timberlake right now??”
And then she went full superfan. She pleaded with officers: “Can you guys please just do me a favor ’cause you loved ‘Bye Bye Bye’ or ‘Sexyback?’ Do me one favor!”
Lo and behold — it worked. They allowed her to briefly speak to Justin as he sat in the back of the police car before taking him to the station. Justice has never sounded so much like a 2002 VMAs performance.
Back at the police station, Timberlake was informed he would be held overnight. He responded: “I’m going to be here all night? You guys are wild, man.” He also asked the officer to keep the light on in the cell as they locked the door.
In early March, Timberlake filed suit against the Sag Harbor Village Police Department, Chief of Police Robert Drake, and the Village of Sag Harbor to prevent the release of the footage, claiming it would cause “severe and irreparable harm” to his reputation and “subject him to public ridicule and harassment.”
On Friday, Acting Supreme Court Justice Joseph Farneti signed a stipulation of settlement between Timberlake and the Sag Harbor Village Police Department, lifting the restraining order blocking the release and allowing for the publication of a redacted version of the footage.
In the settlement, Timberlake’s lawyers agreed that the footage “does not constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” A bit of a reversal from their earlier position, to say the least.
Timberlake pleaded guilty to impaired driving in September 2024, agreed to give a public safety announcement against drunk driving, and was sentenced to a $500 fine, 25 hours of community service, and a 90-day license suspension.
The tour, for what it’s worth, did not get ruined.
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