In a much awaited memoir that was released on Tuesday, Britney Spears describes her years as a superstar who became a victim of her own fame, two years after escaping her father’s guardianship.
One of Spears’s disclosures from “The Woman in Me” has already garnered media attention. She claimed that she was coerced into getting an abortion while dating fellow pop artist Justin Timberlake from 1999 to 2002.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it,” she writes. “It’s one of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life.”
The publishers have kept a tight lid on most of the contents — unsurprising since Simon & Schuster reportedly paid more than 15 million dollars for the rights.
But the book is now at the top of Amazon US’s pre-sale ranking, so it wasn’t a bad wager. Tuesday marks its release in about ten languages and twenty nations.
“Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching, and emotional, to say the least,” Spears told People magazine.
The emotional turmoil means the 41-year-old singer has only recorded a small section for the audiobook, leaving the rest to actress Michelle Williams.
“There are so many hard things to read in the news about my book,” she wrote on her Instagram this week. “Then I woke up this morning and said it’s all relative… nothing really matters at this point.”
