Finally she is the one who speaks. This is the first time in many years that Britney Spears has spoken out about the hardest events in her life. The artist, 41, published yesterday a long-awaited memoir, titled The woman in me, in which she reveals in first person her eventful life journey.
After 14 years of paternal guardianship, ended in November 2021, and while she continues to worry her fans with the home videos she publishes on Instagram, the pop princess reviews the important events in her life and discovers her feelings and reflections on the vicissitudes that he has had to overcome.
“People have been telling me what they think of my body since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of fighting back. But under guardianship they made me understand that those days were over […] I had to go to bed early and take the medication they told me to do,” he says about his descent into hell in 2007 and the beginning of guardianship shortly after.
One of the most striking revelations in the book is that she became pregnant by Justin Timberlake and they both agreed that she should have an abortion. He claims that if it were up to her, he never would have done it, “but Justin was sure he didn’t want to be her father; “He said we were too young.” She was 19 at the time and he was 20. The abortion, Spears says, was “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”
But the issue that generates the most interest in these memoirs of the singer is everything related to her father, James Parnell Spears, and the guardianship he exercised in the singer’s life since 2008. Like every story needs a villain, Britney accused her father of “abuse of guardianship” during the trial that gave her freedom, although those around her have always defended that at that moment it was what saved the singer’s life.
Now she says that the guardianship stripped her of her status as a woman and turned her into a girl. “I became more of an entity than a person on stage,” she says in the book. “I became a robot,” she adds. In this sense, Britney launches a feminist plea by showing that many male artists bet all their money, abused substances or had mental health problems and no one tried to take away their control over their bodies and their money: “I didn’t deserve what my family gave me.” did”.
The artist also sticks out her chest in her memoir about all the awards she won and the album she released while she was supposedly so incapacitated that she had to be monitored by her family. That work he is referring to is Blackout – it translates as blackout or loss of consciousness – for many his best album and, as Rob Sheffield noted in Rolling Stone magazine in 2017, one of the most influential albums in the music industry. pop music.
She is currently divorced from her last husband, Sam Asghari. In the book, completed before the model filed for divorce last August, she refers to him as a “gift from God.”
