We can't stand by and let people attack Britney over the Justin Timberlake parts of the book that have come out. See previous post... but we can take a stand and show our support for her by saying... let her have her moment to let out what has not been her choice to do this whole time... she's not aiming to go after anyone... but to release this and move on.
We ask the media to please take this on and support her.
stop defining the ones again just using this as an example Justin and say she's crazy... etc they broke up years ago... clearly given not less than 2 months ago he yet again took shad towards her... let's let her get it out... and not attack her for it. He's a big boy... he could leave it be and follow his teams advice and stop performing the song...
Again let her release the book and live her life... please đ
From Britney Army members at mybritneyinsider.com
Following the latest revelations in Britney Spears' upcoming memoir, a resurfaced video of J.T. revealed that he performed 'Cry Me a River' despite people telling him not to.
Nearly two months ahead of the release of Britney Spearsâ memoir, The Woman in Me, her ex-beau, Justin Timberlake, performed his hit breakup song âCry Me a River.â The video (taken at Dave Chappelleâs 50th birthday party on August 24) has resurfaced on social media amid the latest claims about Brit and J.Tâs breakup in the shocking memoir. In the clip, the now 42-year-old admitted that he was told to ânotâ perform the 2002 song.
âThey told me not to do this song no more,â Justin said while on stage in August. âF*** that!â Moments later, Justin began to perform the track following Daveâs show. After the clip landed on social media, many Britney fans took to the comments to react, as many know that the song was about their famous split. âWhat goes around come [sic] back around, Justin,â one follower quipped, while another added, âLooks like someone is still hung up on his ex!â
Britney Spears Opens Up: 'Finally Free' to Share Her Story in Bombshell Memoir & New Interview â 'No More Lies' (Exclusive)
The pop icon will release her bombshell memoir, 'The Woman in Me,' on Oct. 24, and PEOPLE has an exclusive excerpt
By Elizabeth Leonard
Britney Spears PEOPLE exclusive
Britney Spears on the cover of PEOPLE. PHOTO: BRITNEY BRANDS
Itâs a sun-kissed afternoon in late September, and Britney Spears pirouettes in powdery white sands on a beach in Tahiti. Tousled blond hair falls over her shoulders as she goes barefoot at the surfâs edge. The 41-year-old pop icon, capturing photos for the cover of PEOPLE while on a tropical getaway, smooths her Anthropologie sundress, fixes her bangs and moves into the shallows in search of a good shot. Working the camera as only she can, Spears looks up and smiles.
Yet, until Nov. 12, 2021 â the day a Los Angeles County judge terminated the conservatorship that had governed Spearsâ life for nearly 14 years â she had few respites like this. The legal victory, following fervent testimony in which Spears accused her father Jamie, 71, and others of exploitation and abuse, set the stage for a second act that is both exhilarating and tricky. âLearning this new freedom, Iâll admit, is challenging at times,â she tells PEOPLE in an exclusive interview, done via email.
There have been setbacks as sheâs navigated her new normal, including her split from model-actor Sam Asghari, 29, in August after just 14 months of marriage. She also has a complicated relationship with her family, including her dad, mom Lynne, 68, and sister Jamie Lynn, 32. But there have also been high notes: Her collaboration with Elton John, âHold Me Closer,â for one, marked her first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 11 years. Mostly, though, Spears says she finds joy in everyday moments, whether âIâm playing with my dogs ...
[or] watching episodes of Friends and belly laughing. I love, love to travel and explore,â she says. âI am a simple girl.â
When Spears looks back on the best times of her life, she recalls her earliest days of performing, âtrips with my dancers [and] acting silly with my girlfriends.â But sheâs proudest of becoming a mother to sons Sean Preston, now 18, and Jayden James, 17, with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. âStarting a family was my dream come true,â she tells PEOPLE of raising her boys, who now live with their dad in Hawaii, but are in contact with Spears. âBeing a mom was my dream come true.â
Another dream has been to reclaim her voice. âOver the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me,â she says. âAfter getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life.â
The result is a revealing new memoir, The Woman in Me, excerpted below. Sharing often-brutal truths, Spears details her incredible journey from teen superstar to one of the bestselling female artists of all time, her âsoul-crushingâ conservatorship experience and her past relationships. âIt's hard to speak about,â Spears says of recounting her lifeâs darker moments, including ânot getting a moment of peace, the judgments from strangers who don't even know me, having my freedom stripped away from me by my family and the government [and] losing my passion for the things I love.â
Now itâs Spearsâ time to wrestle back the narrative.
âIt is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out, and my fans deserve to hear it directly from me,â she says. âNo more conspiracy, no more lies â just me owning my past, present and future.â
In turn, Spears would love to empower others to do the same, telling PEOPLE she hopes the overall takeaway is to âspeak up. Be loud. Know your worth. Inspire people and most of all, just be kind.â
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A precocious kid from Kentwood, La., Spears was cast on The Mickey Mouse Club at age 11.
Being in the show was boot camp for the entertainment industry: extensive dance rehearsals, singing lessons, acting classes, time in the recording studio, and school in between. The Mouseketeers quickly split into our own cliques, divided by the dressing rooms that we shared: Christina Aguilera and I were the younger kids, and we shared a dressing room. We looked up to the older kids â Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling, and Tony Lucca, who I thought was so handsome. And I quickly connected with a boy named Justin Timberlake.
It was honestly a kidâs dream â unbelievably fun, particularly for a kid like me. But it was also exceptionally hard work: we would run choreography thirty times in a day, trying to get every step perfect.
[Once] at a sleepover, we played Truth or Dare, and someone dared Justin to kiss me. A Janet Jackson song was playing in the background as he leaned in and kissed me.
When the show ended a year and a half later ⊠I decided to go back to Kentwood. Already within me was a push-pull: part of me wanted to keep building toward the dream; the other part wanted me to live a normal life in Louisiana. For a minute, I had to let normalcy win.
Back at home, I returned to [high school], settling into normal teenage life â or the closest thing to ânormalâ that was possible in my family.
For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris. We called our cocktails âtoddies.â I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then. The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous.
There was something so beautifully normal about that period of my life: going to homecoming and prom, driving around our little town, going to the movies.
But, the truth was, I missed performing. My mom had been in touch with a lawyer sheâd met on my audition circuit, a man named Larry Rudolph, who she would call sometimes for business advice. He suggested I record a demo. He had a song that Toni Braxton had recorded for her second album that had ended up on the cutting room floor. This would become the demo that I would use to get in the door at record labels.
Larry took me around [New York City], and I went into rooms full of executives and sang Whitney Houstonâs âI Have Nothing.â Gazing out at the rooms full of men in suits looking me up and down in my small dress and high heels, I sang loud.
I ended up getting a record deal with Jive Records at the age of fifteen.
The label wanted me in a studio immediately.
I worked for hours straight. My work ethic was strong. If you knew me then, you wouldnât hear from me for days. I would stay in the studio as long as I could. If anyone wanted to leave, Iâd say, âI wasnât perfect.â
When all the songs were done, someone said, âWhat else can you do? Do you want to dance now?â
I said, âHell yeah, I do!â
Following the success of her first two record-smashing albums âŠBaby One More Time (1999) and Oops!...I Did It Again (2000), Spears hit the stage at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards to promote her third album, Britney.
The plan was for me to sing âIâm a Slave 4 U,â and we decided I would use a snake as a prop. Itâs become an iconic moment in VMAs history, but it was even more terrifying than it appeared.
All I knew was to look down, because I felt if I looked up and caught its eye, it would kill me.
In my head I was saying, Just perform, just use your legs and perform. But what nobody knows is that as I was singing, the snake brought its head right around to my face, right up to me, and started hissing.
I was thinking, Are you f---ing serious right now? The f---ing goddamn snakeâs tongue is flicking out at me. Right. Now. Finally, I got to the part where I handed it back, thank God.
While recording her album Britney in 2001, Spears also filmed her first movie, 2002âs Crossroads, a coming-of-age tale about teens on a road trip, with Zoe Saldaña and Taryn Manning.
The experience wasnât easy for me. My problem wasnât with anyone involved in the production but with what acting did to my mind. I think I started Method actingâonly I didnât know how to break out of my character. I really became this other person. Some people do Method acting, but theyâre usually aware of the fact that theyâre doing it. But I didnât have any separation at all.
I ended up walking differently, carrying myself differently, talking differently. I was someone else for months while I filmed Crossroads. Still to this day, I bet the girls I shot that movie with think, Sheâs a littleâŠquirky. If they thought that, they were right.
That was pretty much the beginning and end of my acting career, and I was relieved. The Notebook casting came down to me and Rachel McAdams, and even though it would have been fun to reconnect with Ryan Gosling after our time on the Mickey Mouse Club, Iâm glad I didnât do it. If I had, instead of working on my album In the Zone Iâd have been acting like a 1940s heiress day and night.
I imagine there are people in the acting field who have dealt with something like that, where they had trouble separating themselves from a character.
I hope I never get close to that occupational hazard again. Living that way, being half yourself and half a fictional character, is messed up. After a while you donât know whatâs real anymore.
By 2008, Spears â who had welcomed two sons with her second husband, Kevin Federline â had become a constant paparazzi target and a tabloid fixture. After being placed under psychiatric holds that February, she was put in a court-ordered conservatorship, granting her father and a lawyer control over Spearsâ financial and personal affairs for the next 13 years. In that time, she recorded and released four successful albums and headlined her Piece of Me Las Vegas residency that grossed $138 million during its four-year run. But behind the scenes, she says she was unhappy.
Iâd been eyeballed so much growing up. Iâd been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back. But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.
If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.
I would do little bits of creative stuff here and there, but my heart wasnât in it anymore. As far as my passion for singing and dancing, it was almost a joke at that point.
Feeling like youâre never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. Heâd drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after Iâd accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.
I became a robot. But not just a robot â a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.
The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.
If theyâd let me live my life, I know I wouldâve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out.
Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself. I think back now on my father and his associates having control over my body and my money for that long and it makes me feel sick.
Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money. I didnât deserve what my family did to me.
The thing was: I accomplished a lot during that time when I was supposedly incapable of taking care of myself.
I sometimes thought that it was almost funny how I won those awards for the album I made while I was supposedly so incapacitated that I had to be controlled by my family.
The truth was, though, when I stopped to think about it for very long, it wasnât funny at all.
This is whatâs hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldnât treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in â only my world didnât allow me to be an adult.
The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life â those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.
On June 23, 2021, Spears testified in open court, pleading with the judge to end the conservatorship. Her father was suspended as her conservator in September, and two months later, Spearsâ conservatorship was terminated.
It took a long time and a lot of work for me to feel ready to tell my story. I hope it inspires people on some level and can touch hearts. Since Iâve been free, Iâve had to construct a whole different identity. Iâve had to say, Wait a second, this is who I was â someone passive and pleasing. A girl. And this is who I am now â someone strong and confident. A woman.
From The Woman in Me by Britney Spears. Copyright © 2023 by Britney Jean Spears. Reprinted by permission of Gallery Books, a Division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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The Woman in Me is available for pre-order ahead of its release on Oct. 24.
For more of the exclusive excerpt and interview with Britney Spears, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.
https://people.com/britney-spears-woman-in-me-memoir-excerpt-exclusive-8362486
âI am just proud of what a strong woman she is,â the heiress says of the singer.
Paris Hilton continues to stand firmly by Britney Spearsâs side.
In an exclusive conversation with People for her upcoming âBe an Iconâ kitchen and home collection with Walmart, the 42-year-old businesswoman expressed her immense pride in her close friend Spears, who is gearing up to release her memoir, The Woman in Me, on October 24.
Hilton commended the pop star for her courage in sharing her story, acknowledging the challenges that come with delving into oneâs past for a memoir. âI know how hard it can be doing a memoir, because you have to really dive in and think about so many moments in your life that Iâm sure you donât even want to think about,â she told the outlet, recalling the transformative experience she had while writing her own book, Paris: The Memoir. Hilton expressed her hope that Spears finds similar healing through this process, adding, âI am just proud of what a strong woman she is.â
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, secured the rights to Spearsâs memoir after a fierce bidding war among publishing houses. Gallery Books senior vice president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom also praised the singerâs resilience and bravery when speaking to People. âBritneyâs compelling testimony in open court shook the world, changed laws, and showed her inspiring strength and bravery,â she said. âI have no doubt her memoir will have a similar impactâand will be the publishing event of the year. We couldnât be more proud to help her share her story at last.â
The Woman in Me will be available for preorder and is set to hit shelves on October 24, illuminating the enduring power of music, love, and the âToxicâ singerâs own story on her own terms for the very first time since her 13-year conservatorship ended.