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Justin Timberlake brutally dumped Britney Spears with a two-word text
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Britney Spears' hotly anticipated memoir The Woman in Me has caught the attention of the internet following its official release on 24 October.
In the run-up to its publication, snippets from the explosive autobiography revealed a new harrowing meaning behind her hit 'Everytime', as well as lifting the lid on how her relationship ended with Justin Timblerlake.
Reports have claimed the star gave the final sign-off to publishers weeks before Sam Asghari filed for divorce after 14 years of marriage, meaning she has "no right to demand any further changes".
Spears is ‘working to feel more compassion’ for sister Jamie Lynn
Britney Spears is ‘working to feel more compassion’ for sister Jamie LynnSpears reflected on her strained relationship with younger sister Jamie Lynn in the highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me.
"She will always be my sister, and I love her and her beautiful family. I’m working to feel more compassion than anger toward her, and everyone who I feel has wronged me. It’s not that easy," Spears wrote.
Britney Spears will not read her own audiobook after ‘heart-wrenching’ experiences
Britney Spears will not read her own audiobook after ‘heart-wrenching’ experiencesThe Grammy winner will read the book’s introduction, announcing in a statement shared with People: "This book has been a labour of love and all the emotions that come with it.
"Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least. For those reasons, I will only be reading a small part of my audiobook.
She added: "I am so grateful to the amazing Michelle Williams for reading the rest of it."
The singer explains why she loves speaking in a British accent
Britney Spears explains why she loves speaking in a British accentSpears grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana and typically talks in a light Southern accent. However, in several clips, the star can be heard breaking out into a British accent.
"According to my mother, my grandmother Lilian ‘Lily’ Portell was from an elegant, sophisticated family in London," Spears explained.
"She had an exotic air about her that everyone commented on; her mother was British and her father was from the Mediterranean island of Malta."
She continued: "All I knew was that my grandmother was beautiful and I loved copying her British accent. Talking in a British accent has always made me happy because it makes me think of her, my fashionable grandmother. I wanted to have manners and a lilting voice just like hers."
Inside Spears’ evolving relationship with her sons
Inside Britney Spears’s evolving relationship with her sonsIn one section of her book, the 'Oops… I did it again' hitmaker opens up about suffering from perinatal depression following the birth of her sons.
"Being a new mom is challenge enough without trying to do everything under a microscope," Spears wrote. "With Kevin away so much, no one was around to see me spiral – except every paparazzo in America."
Spears gives a nod to Ariana Grande's hit while speaking about sister Jamie Lynn Spears
The star explains why she shaved her head back in 2007
Britney Spears explains why she shaved her head back in 2007The singer shocked the world when she shaved her head back in 2007, aged 26.
"I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager," she wrote.
"Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back."
Spears ‘dropped jaws’ with her audition for The Notebook
Spears revealed she was "glad" to have lost the lead role in The Notebook to Rachel McAdams, prompting casting director Matthew Barry to share her audition tape with The Daily Mail.
In the two-minute-long video, an emotional Spears says: "I prayed for you to die in the war, really. Well, not die. I would have felt completely horrible if you would've died. But I kinda didn't want you to be alive anymore because I couldn't bear the thought of you being with somebody else, or of us never seeing each other again. So I gotta go, okay?"
Barry told the publication the pop star "wasn't just good, she was phenomenal."
Emma Roberts ecstatic to receive copy of Spears' autobiography
Britney Spears finally confirms how things ended with Justin Timberlake
Britney Spears finally confirms how things ended with Justin TimberlakeThe star has detailed how the former NSYNC star dumped her via a text message.
"I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood," she wrote in an excerpt.
Spears said the break-up affected her so much that she considered quitting the music industry at the time.
Spears sends a copy of 'The Woman in Me' to Paris Hilton
Britney Spears' Everytime acquires 'new meaning' after Justin Timberlake abortion bombshell
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Britney Spears shot to fame as the quintessential sugar-pop princess but, in 2003, she showed her serious side with the moving hit ‘Everytime’.
In the autobiography, Spears, 41, claims that she fell pregnant during her three-year relationship with fellow superstar Justin Timberlake.
And while she’d been convinced that she and the NSYNC heartthrob would have children together “one day”, she said he "definitely wasn’t happy" about the news.
The singer wrote in an excerpt published by People on Tuesday: "I loved Justin so much. I always expected us to have a family together one day. This would just be much earlier than I’d anticipated.
"But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young."
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