Justin Timberlake pleaded guilty to a non-criminal misdemeanor in a Long Island court on Friday to a drunken driving charge he sustained in the Hamptons earlier this summer. He said he had been drinking that night, it had impaired him and he showed poor judgment.

A public statement about the dangers of drunk driving was part of the deal. The judge said Timberlake could get 25 to 40 hours in jail, depending on how sincere he seemed. He ultimately gave him 25 hours.

Timberlake must also pay a fine of $500.

The charge was changed from driving while under the influence of alcohol to driving while impaired. Timberlake must also pay a fine. The amount of the fine has not yet been determined. The judge said Timberlake must also make a public statement about why one should not drive while drunk and added community service to his sentence. He said he must serve 25 to 40 hours, with the number ultimately depending on how well he does in his public statement. Timberlake said he is willing to serve the time.

Driving while impaired is a traffic violation punishable by a fine of $300 to $500 and a 90-day driver’s license suspension.

He initially pleaded not guilty to the drunk driving charge and his lawyer insisted in early August that he was not drunk.

Justin Timberlake was arrested for drunk driving in Sag Harbor, Long Island after refusing to take a chemical test three times.

Timberlake was charged with the offense on June 18 after police said he missed a stop sign and left his lane in Sag Harbor, a former whaling village mentioned in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick” and located in the Hamptons, about 100 miles east of New York City.

The boy band singer turned solo star and actor was driving a 2025 BMW around 12:30 a.m. when a police officer stopped him and found him to be drunk, a court document said.

“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, ​​his breath smelled strongly of alcohol, he could not divide his attention, his speech was slowed, he was unsteady on his feet, and he performed poorly on all standardized sobriety tests,” court documents say.

According to the documents, Timberlake, 43, told the officer at the time that he had been drinking a martini and following some friends home. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused to take a breathalyzer test.

The ten-time Grammy winner began performing as a young Disney Mouseketeer, rose to fame as part of the boy band NSYNC and launched a solo career in the early 2000s.