Justin Timberlake is backtracking on some comments he made about British boyband One Direction. 

After an interview last week he started making headlines for comparing the group to his former boyband *NSync. He was quoted as saying that he was “willing to say” that ‘N Sync was “better than them.” 

When “NME” tweeted about the story using the quote, JT hit back, commenting that he “thought the question was about a pie eating contest.”  He wrote, “My bad,” then poked fun at the controversy by using the hashtag “#newsworthy.”