Britney Spears: Tell-all book released worldwide following Mexico ‘leak’

The film’s producer has described how, at one point during the shoot, Spears’ team “wanted her to be recording at night after she did a full day’s work on the set”. Ann Carli recalled: “I just said, ‘Absolutely not. I’ll shut the movie down right now, because that’s not fair to her.’”

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While The Woman in Me hits shelves today, the audiobook version has also been released.

But while fans had hoped Spears herself would narrate her story, the singer recently shared that Michelle Williams would instead read the audio version of her memoir

The news came as Spears, 41, admitted she’d found it too painful to “relive” her experiences once more.

Spears has recalled first learning about the #FreeBritney movement to end her conservatorship from a nurse while “locked up” at a Beverly Hills rehab centre.

Following a series of mental health breakdowns in 2007, the pop star was placed under a court-mandated guardianship controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, who was given legal power over her personal affairs and finances.

In the later years of the conservatorship, which ended in 2021, a movement emerged bringing awareness to Spears’s situation after fans became concerned for her safety and wellbeing.

In The Woman in Me, Spears recalls trying to fight against the conservatorship in 2018, only to be forced to undergo further mental health evaluations and another rehab stay.

In her memoir, “Oops!...I Did It Again” singer Spears has compared her two-week fling with Colin Farell to a “street fight” in the whirlwind aftermath of her difficult break up with Justin Timberlake.

Britney Spears has reflected on one of the most iconic fashion moments of the early Noughties: her matching double-denim outfit with Justin Timberlake.

Back in 2001, the couple attended the American Music Awards together and quickly made headlines with their showstopping Canadian tuxedos.

Spears has also opened up in the book about Timberlake releasing the music video for “Cry Me a River” after their split, and how she was subsequently demonised by the public.

“A woman who looks like me cheats on him and he wanders around sad in the rain,” Spears said of Timberlake’s 2002 music video for the track.

Britney Spears’s newly released memoir is dedicated to her two sons Sean Preston, 18 , and Jayden James, 17. The two children have recently moved to Hawaii with their father Kevin Federline.

Below, you can read everything we know about Spears’s past and present-day relationship with her sons:

The Woman in Me tells Spears’s story, but the singer reportedly had a little help in the process from American journalist and author Sam Lansky.

Having written a book about his turbulent teen years and interviewed A-listers from Adele to Madonna, he’s well placed to shepherd the star’s story, Annabel Nugent writes:

A wave of online truthers believe Britney has been replaced by a body double with no bottom teeth. Katie Rosseinsky explores why TikTok sleuths have been on the rise since the star’s controversial conservatorship ended:

By reliving her very public meltdowns in a bleakly powerful memoir, Britney has unwittingly provided a roadmap to help navigate the pitfalls of stardom, writes Charlotte Lytton – and allowing her to get it all off her chest after 25 years of enforced silence feels like an act of kindness