![]() ![]() The moment proved instructive: As Spears realized, “she demanded power, and so she got power. “I would do whatever the director told me to do, even if I had to hobble onto the set without a heel, even if I had to show up barefoot.” “If I broke a heel on my shoe, I would never make production take the five minutes to let me fix it,” Spears recalls. It all started when a seam came undone on Madonna’s costume, which delayed the production start time by a few hours while a seamstress tended to Madge’s garments. While working on the music video for their 2003 collaboration “Me Against the Music,” Spears recalls that Madonna taught her an important lesson: how to own her vision. “He did all that, he came there to see me, and I still couldn’t talk-to him or anybody.”įrank Micelotta/Getty Images Madonna taught Britney how to own her power. Timberlake flew out at one point, she recalls, and brought a long letter he’d written to her and framed, which she still keeps beneath her bed to this day. Everyone who knew me thought something was wrong with me, really wrong.”Īfter Spears returned to Kentwood, she remembers she couldn’t talk to family or friends and mostly stayed at home in bed, staring at the ceiling. I don’t know if I was clinically in shock, but it felt that way. Whenever anyone asked me about him, all I could do was cry. “When I say devastated, I mean I could barely speak for months. The breakup left Spears “ devastated,” she writes (emphasis hers). Spears writes that Justin Timberlake used her “as ammunition for his record” while making Justified, which featured the scathing breakup ballad “Cry Me a River.” During a Barbara Walters appearance, Spears recalls, he also played an unreleased song called “Don’t Go (Horrible Woman)” that also seemed to be about her. But it lodged in my memory.” Spears barely spoke to anyone for months after Justin Timberlake allegedly broke up with her via text. Apparently, postpartum hemorrhage isn’t that uncommon. That, too, left a mark: “To see a river of blood flowing out of your mother would be traumatic for anyone, but for a child at that age, it was terrifying. Sometimes I’d climb into his bed and just hold him.”įive years later, when Spears was 9, she recalls that her mother suffered a postpartum hemorrhage after giving birth to her little sister, Jamie Lynn. From then on, she says that her mother, Lynne Spears, “catered to” her brother out of a sense of guilt and “still defers to him to this day.” That said, Spears also notes that the accident brought her and Bryan closer and that she “slept beside him every night” until she was almost in sixth grade. When Spears was 4 years old, her older brother, Bryan, was involved in a four-wheeling accident that left him in a full body cast. Spears wouldn’t leave her brother’s side after his four-wheeling accident. But those only scratch the surface-below, read about more of the book’s best bits. In the days leading up to the memoir’s release, many of its biggest bombshells hit the press. ![]() And this is who I am now-someone strong and confident. ![]() I’ve had to say, Wait a second, this is who I was-someone passive and pleasing. ![]() “Since I’ve been free,” Spears writes in The Woman in Me, “I’ve had to construct a whole different identity. ![]()
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