Justin Timberlake admitted “it’s been a tricky week” at his first live performance since he was arrested and charged with driving whereas intoxicated.The 43-year-old singer was arrested in Sag Harbor, a rich village within the Hamptons in New York state, on Tuesday after allegedly failing to halt at a cease signal and failing to remain in the best lane.In movies extensively circulated on social media, Timberlake tells followers at a gig in Chicago on Friday evening in regards to the previous week.“It’s been a tricky week … I do know generally I’m laborious to like however you retain on loving me and I like you proper again,” he mentioned.Timberlake’s lawyer mentioned he was wanting ahead to “vigorously defending” the singer in a press release shared with the PA Media information company on Wednesday.The musician, who first discovered fame as a member of the boyband ’NSync, was pulled over on 18 June at 12.37am after police noticed him “failing to cease at a duly posted cease signal and failing to take care of his lane of journey” whereas driving a 2025 BMW, a press release from Sag Harbor village police division mentioned.An officer who stopped Timberlake described his eyes as being “bloodshot and glassy” and mentioned a “sturdy odour of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath”, in accordance with the charging doc.“He was unable to divide consideration, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he carried out poorly on all standardised discipline sobriety exams,” the papers added.Timberlake was arrested and held in a single day till he was arraigned at Sag Harbor village justice courtroom on Tuesday morning and launched.His subsequent courtroom date was scheduled for 26 July, the Suffolk County district lawyer’s workplace mentioned.Timberlake will carry out one other present in Chicago on Saturday earlier than two reveals at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York.He’ll then journey to Boston, Baltimore and Cleveland as a part of the Neglect Tomorrow World tour.The European leg, as a result of start in Krakow, Poland, on 26 July, consists of performances within the UK cities of Birmingham and Manchester in addition to two dates on the O2 in London this August.The Grammy winner and actor, identified for movies together with The Social Community (2010) and Buddies With Advantages (2011), launched his newest solo album, Every part I Thought It Was, in March.