The sensationalist headlines about this memoir's various revelations do Spears a disservice
the world’s most powerful celebrity. Within a matter of years, that power was taken from her: she was legally controlled by her family, held for months against her will in a mental health facility and stripped of every freedom, right down to what she was allowed to eat and drink.
This was a far cry from the Britney Spears who had found her power through performing, revelling in the drama of a headline-grabbing awards show performance, or even just the sheer pleasure of using her voice as she vied for attention at home.Spears writes about singing as a way to access the divine, the joy of music taking her “half outside the world” during a childhood that was financially and emotionally precarious.
It is a harrowing chapter. She paints a vivid picture of a young woman sobbing in pain on the bathroom floor for hours while Timberlake strums his guitar. Though she is generous about the fact that they were so young, Timberlake does not come out of the Spears story looking good: rather, he seems mercenary, selfish and careless about her feelings towards him.Spears’s struggles around 2007 are well-documented, given the paparazzi swarming her at the time.
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