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I never wished Britney dead, I said the way Whitney ended up in her bath tub, the same tragic circumstance could happen to Britney if she is in fact a drug addict, Aaron Carter, Bobbi khristina too have all come to horrible tragic demise’s all because of their chronic drug addiction, it’s sad and I pray it won’t ever happen to Britney, I wud say every person on here is rooting for Britney to find a clear path in life and get the help she’s urgently needs, we’d all love to see a coherent and bright Britney with her sparkly personality back!!
Read the book and thought it was dreadful. It was written in the style of a teenage annual and leaves so much out. It could have been one of the best books of the year.
Also can't bear the way she writes in her southern dialect about putting on her dress and 'little bitty heels'. She's a grown woman fgs. She writes about this when she met media executives at the start of her career, then she describes how she hates that the men leer at her - well I knew at the age of 16 wearing a dress and heels would get you attention like that, she can't be that dumb.
I don't know if Britney is a liar or has a loose grasp on reality (probably both) but in the book she says she's terrified of snakes and what we supposedly don't see on screen is that this snake hissed right in her face just before she performs but we see her pick it up here and the snake did no such thing.
I mean, even if it did, snakes aren't supposed to be handled, shown off and draped over peoples bodies so good for them for having a pop forgot about the tiger, too. Gross.
This thread has been argumentative and unpleasant because people are constantly being pulled up on their opinions and distaste.
I made the rave thread for people who don't want to read upsetting opinions about Britney Spears. It that's you, go there. If I bowled over to the Becki Jones thread telling everyone how 'inhumane' they were, I'd be ripped to fucking shreds.
Everyone is allowed an opinion but there's no need to make people feel like they're committing some kind of criminal act just because they call it as they see it.
And it's not just the weird dances and posing nude, it's the nonsensical captions and rambling. Stans can try to defend the rambling posts with "it's Britney! She's just being adorable and scatty!" or "loads of people post weird rambling things on Instagram!" or whatever but if she said those things in person people would cross the street to avoid her.
Oh and to the poster that made the comment about how mentally ill people don't need conservatorships, if no one needed them they wouldn't exist so clearly some people do need them and Britney is one of those people
I've read about 2/3rds of Britney's book so far. The conversational style maybe isn't for everyone but it's pretty readable and not as garbled and fractured as I thought it'd be.
It's interesting that she relates her public breakdown (when she shaved her head) very lucidly - which I was not expecting. Usually when you're traumatised, stressed, mind racing, a lot of the time you can't pinpoint your feelings or explain your actions afterward - sometimes you can't even remember large parts of it. Maybe it's your mind protecting you, but cynics may say she's had many years to get her story straight and that's why she's now able to explain it.
Really shitty that her mother wrote a book about Britney not long after her breakdown - even if you don't fully believe Britney's family were leeching off her fortune, to do that to your own daughter is really low and not a great reflection on Lynne.
The way Britney tells it, she had her public meltdown solely due to not seeing her boys and was desperately sad about it all - and she was accused of being an addict - though she does admit to taking Adderall to excess during this time.
Is there part of this story missing? Her parents and even Jamie-Lynn (who has also written a book - more recently, none of which I have read) all deserve a right to reply as nobody in her close family comes across as that sympathetic a character.
It does feel as if there's parts of her life story missing. At the same time I admire Britney for carrying on and putting herself under scrutiny even though she was dealing with this resentment and hurt...and I don't think her father, as an ex-addict who ruled the household by fear when she was a child, had her best interests at heart.
At the same time, if her mental health issues are as serious as some people suspect, people who are really ill can rewrite history. They deny. They blame. Because maybe it makes their hurts easier to deal with (which I can kinda understand, and I know someone like this).
I even appreciate her saying she doesn't feel her emotional stamina (if you want to call it that) is as strong nowadays and she didn't feel she had the ability to continue doing shows like The X Factor. She seems to have found it too draining, and that's maybe more of a reflection where her head's at nowdays. She mentions how she feels more safe and secure at home.
I was expecting to read it thinking my bullshit-ometer would go off constantly, but you know what? I kinda like her and I do feel for her, even if I don't know whether to believe exactly everything. She has suffered and managed to persevere, that's for sure, and that deserves respect.
How she is, emotionally and physically, now? I don't really know...!
People always bring Kanye into it. First of all, yes, he's mental. But he has no family to act on his nutso episodes. He doesn't even see his kids other than North. He's surrounded by yes men and his wife is clearly terrified of him. Until he does something to seriously physically endanger himself or others, nothing will happen. Britney did do that. Multiple times.
He has needed serious help since his mother died. Possibly before, but no one noticed until Donda was gone.
I assure you-this isn’t some sexist shit, thinking she needs some help and supervision. It’s a mental health assessment, based on what we see online.
I can't edit the above (went away for a shower) but what I meant to say was - the person we see looking, erm, rather sketchy on Instagram flashing her bits (or even going fully naked at times) these days weirdly doesn't correlate to what I've read in her book so far.
Obviously it's ghost-written (probably from audio tapes of Britney speaking, or interviews). It would be interesting to see what was left out. Her book is quite loving, especially towards her boys, and it's her dad, and, to a lesser degree, her mum that get the worst of it. But when you read Britney's Insta ramblings, often in BLOCK CAPS and going off on weird tangents, her posts do seem quite angry still - so maybe the book has been edited to make her sound more benevolent.
Let's face it, this is the celebrity world, maybe NOBODY is fully telling the truth. Public image is number one here.
I'm also very conscious of tarring mentally ill people with the dismissive "unreliable narrator" brush. I mean, yes, it does happen, but at the same time I've been accused of escalating myself when my mother was goading me into a reaction a year or two ago - even to the point of my mum announcing to people I was bullying her! And I am the sort of person who will burst into tears rather than get angry. Makes me wonder what sort of genetic fuckery I've inherited (my niece sometimes wonders if my mother is bipolar - she is moody and manipulative, yes, that's all I know).
I've been wildly depressed, borderline-paranoid (when having a depressive episode) but I do have insight and can explain my point of view clearly (when I don't cry). And this wasn't one of those times where I wasn't perceiving things correctly. My family are also happy to take, take, take but they will never give when you ask for help.
My own mother would even say I was the sort of person she knew to never lie, because I have a weird conscience about bad feelings or doing "wrong" (I've been like that since I was a kid).
To be dismissed as "crazy" and "there she goes again" when you're hurt and nobody's listening is like being made to feel invisible. Lonely. That your feelings don't matter. It's hard to describe how frustrating it is when people look at you and judge you that way. And I've never been under a conservatorship. And I'd hate to deny Britney a chance to be listened to.
I can't edit the above (went away for a shower) but what I meant to say was - the person we see looking, erm, rather sketchy on Instagram flashing her bits (or even going fully naked at times) these days weirdly doesn't correlate to what I've read in her book so far.
Obviously it's ghost-written (probably from audio tapes of Britney speaking, or interviews). It would be interesting to see what was left out. Her book is quite loving, especially towards her boys, and it's her dad, and, to a lesser degree, her mum that get the worst of it. But when you read Britney's Insta ramblings, often in BLOCK CAPS and going off on weird tangents, her posts do seem quite angry still - so maybe the book has been edited to make her sound more benevolent.
Let's face it, this is the celebrity world, maybe NOBODY is fully telling the truth. Public image is number one here.
I'm also very conscious of tarring mentally ill people with the dismissive "unreliable narrator" brush. I mean, yes, it does happen, but at the same time I've been accused of escalating myself when my mother was goading me into a reaction a year or two ago - even to the point of my mum announcing to people I was bullying her! And I am the sort of person who will burst into tears rather than get angry. Makes me wonder what sort of genetic fuckery I've inherited. I've been wildly depressed, borderline-paranoid (when having a depressive episode) but I do have insight and can explain my point of view clearly (when I don't cry). And this wasn't one of those times where I wasn't perceiving things correctly. My family are also happy to take, take, take but they will never give when you ask for help.
My own mother would even say I was the sort of person she knew to never lie, because I have a weird conscience about bad feelings (I've been like that since I was a kid).
To be dismissed as "crazy" and "there she goes again" when you're hurt and nobody's listening is like being made to feel invisible. Lonely. THat your feelings don't matter. And I've never been under a conservatorship.
In fairness, people are only suggesting she's an unreliable narrator because a few lies have already been unpicked on social media and here. Not because she's mentally ill. I suggested lithium and other heavy meds use may cause memory lapse and make her version of events unreliable. I don't actually believe she's trying to deceive when she lies. I thinks she genuinely believes what she says.
In fairness, people are only suggesting she's an unreliable narrator because a few lies have already been unpicked on social media and here. Not because she's mentally ill. I suggested lithium and other heavy meds use may cause memory lapse and make her version of events unreliable. I don't actually believe she's trying to deceive when she lies. I thinks she genuinely believes what she says.
I know very little about lithium but from what I've seen and heard it can be something of a chemical cosh. That makes sense about how Britney may be processing things due to meds, but, really, if she was that bad she wouldn't be fit enough to give interviews or go on stage and talk to the public. When I'm ill I just don't have the mental or physical strength and want to hide away - of course we're all different - but part of me feels Britney is quite brave talking about all this and moreso for continuing with her career, even though it seems she resented a lot of it. It must be really hard to talk about and relive.
I guess Britney is doing the best she can and let's face it, she's in line to make a lot of money from this book (no judgement there - if she was paying everyone left, right and centre and couldn't - as she says in the book - buy her own designer sneakers ? or take her entourage and staff out at the end of a tour ?) it's good she's making her own money.
Is she thriving and able to make wise decisions for her long-term future though? Can she repair her relationship with her two sons?
There haven't been many voices supporting Britney's opinion about the too-strict conservatorship but Andy Cohen's take on it is interesting (from 2 days ago): Andy Cohen cuts a casual figure during NYC outing - after detailing 'creepy' Britney Spears interview during star's controversial conservatorship | Daily Mail Online
Oh god, I hope not! My memory is a bit foggy but I'm sure I remember Britney popping off about the potential of a future biopic a while ago? I may be making that up entirely because of 1am brain.
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Derailing but Matthew Perry died. Not shocked but very sad ❤
I mean, even if it did, snakes aren't supposed to be handled, shown off and draped over peoples bodies so good for them for having a pop forgot about the tiger, too. Gross.
I never wished Britney dead, I said the way Whitney ended up in her bath tub, the same tragic circumstance could happen to Britney if she is in fact a drug addict, Aaron Carter, Bobbi khristina too have all come to horrible tragic demise’s all because of their chronic drug addiction, it’s sad and I pray it won’t ever happen to Britney, I wud say every person on here is rooting for Britney to find a clear path in life and get the help she’s urgently needs, we’d all love to see a coherent and bright Britney with her sparkly personality back!!
Completely agree... Be careful what you say though .... there is some seriArse folk around who don't take kindly to any positivity on this thread. You'll be directed to the rave page if you say anything complimentary about ol' britters.
Read the book and thought it was dreadful. It was written in the style of a teenage annual and leaves so much out. It could have been one of the best books of the year.
Also can't bear the way she writes in her southern dialect about putting on her dress and 'little bitty heels'. She's a grown woman fgs. She writes about this when she met media executives at the start of her career, then she describes how she hates that the men leer at her - well I knew at the age of 16 wearing a dress and heels would get you attention like that, she can't be that dumb.
I don't know if Britney is a liar or has a loose grasp on reality (probably both) but in the book she says she's terrified of snakes and what we supposedly don't see on screen is that this snake hissed right in her face just before she performs but we see her pick it up here and the snake did no such thing.
I'd read somewhere that he is under something like that (guardianship) with the naked lady wife, Bianca, is it? ... Although it would seem he is controlling her from the state of what she wears.... anyhoo... Wrong thread
RE: the snake thing, I wonder if she’s muddling the rehearsal with the actual performance. On the rehearsal video you can see the snakes head comes near her face and the handler reaches over and guides the snake away again.
RE: the snake thing, I wonder if she’s muddling the rehearsal with the actual performance. On the rehearsal video you can see the snakes head comes near her face and the handler reaches over and guides the snake away again.
People always bring Kanye into it. First of all, yes, he's mental. But he has no family to act on his nutso episodes. He doesn't even see his kids other than North. He's surrounded by yes men and his wife is clearly terrified of him. Until he does something to seriously physically endanger himself or others, nothing will happen. Britney did do that. Multiple times.
Kanye actually alleged before the divorce the Kardashian’s tried to put him in one.
who do Kardashian’s work with? None other than the star entertainment run by the mastermind behind Britney’s. Lou Taylor.
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forgot about the tiger, too. Gross.
I actually thought that as I was reading the book - I bet this gets made into a TV movie.
.... there is some seriArse folk around who don't take kindly to any positivity on this thread. You'll be directed to the rave page if you say anything complimentary about ol' britters. 
