Few pop stars have known the kind of tumult that Britney Spears has.
And the “Gimme More” singer made extensive use of that power.
“The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child.
It was death to my creativity as an artist.”
As she said, “It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out.
… No more conspiracy, no more lies just me owning my past, present and future.”
She was in eighth grade at the time.
“We became happier, more alive and adventurous,” she adds.
Sparks flew from the get-go, as Spears reveals in “The Woman in Me” (viaPeople).
By 2002, the curtain fell on what remains one of the most memorable pairings in music history.
In addition, he laid bare intimate details about their sex lives, attracting further jeering against Spears.
“We were out one night and we went to a Spanish bar.
We danced and danced.
I made out with him that night,” Spears writes, according to an excerpt inThe Sun.
Sawyer, a senior journalist, added to the noise.
What did you do?"
Her breakup with Timberlake wasn’t the only focus point, unfortunately.
“What was with the ‘You’re in the wrong’ approach??
Geeze … and making me cry?”
she questioned in a now-deleted Instagram post (viaHarper’s Bazaar).
Conjecture, criticism, and commentary girdled her, drawing unsolicited inferences about her life.
In retrospect, the thought of Jamie controlling her life made her feel sick.
For millennial audiences, it was an electrifying spectacle.
For Spears, not so much.
The singer was panic-stricken through her performance for fear of being attacked by the python.
“I was thinking,Are you f***ing serious right now?
The f***ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me,” she writes.
Oh, and did we mention?
The same performance also had her caged with a tiger.
She answered in the negative and underlined, in all her girlhood innocence, that boys are mean.
“You mean all boys are mean?
I’m not mean, how about me?”
McMahon prodded, leading the visibly hesitant young Spears to appease the older presenter with a stopgap answer.
The 2002 dramedy was critically panned and didn’t leave a lasting impact, except on Spears.
“I think I started Method acting only I didn’t know how to break out of my character.
I really became this other person,” she wrote in her memoir (viaPeople).
“That was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career, and I was relieved.”
But, as she mentions, she didn’t regret passing it up.
Britney, meanwhile, has said her substance use was less recreational, more forced.
