Britney Spears, 41, is just not holding again in her upcoming memoir, The Lady in Me, which can be launched on October 24. Within the newest excerpt obtained by PEOPLE on October 17, the “Gimme Extra” songstress claimed that she allegedly would drink cocktails together with her mom, Lynne Spears, 68, when she was a preteen. “For enjoyable, beginning once I was in eighth grade, my mother and I might make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and whereas we have been there, we’d drink daiquiris,” Brit penned. “We referred to as our cocktails ‘toddies.’”
She even in contrast her expertise with alcohol round her mother to the expertise round her father, Jamie Spears, 71. “I cherished that I used to be in a position to drink with my mother every so often,” Britney went on to jot down. “The way in which we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew extra depressed and shut down. We turned happier, extra alive, and adventurous.”
The now mother-of-two expressed that her early teen years have been comparatively regular. She wrote that rising up in Kentwood, Louisiana, she had a “regular teenage life — or the closest factor to ‘regular’ that was potential in my household.” Regardless of the “regular” early teen years, the pop sensation missed the highlight. “There was one thing so superbly regular about that interval of my life: going to homecoming and promenade, driving round our little city, going to the flicks,” Brit added. “However the fact was, I missed performing.”
This isn’t the primary bombshell element to return out of the upcoming memoir, as the magazine additionally launched different excerpts that very same day. Brit opened up about her alleged abortion throughout her romance with Justin Timberlake and her 13-year-long conservatorship. “Justin undoubtedly wasn’t joyful concerning the being pregnant,” she claimed within the memoir. “He stated we weren’t able to have a child in our lives, that we have been method too younger.”
In a separate excerpt, Brit opened up about feeling like a “robotic” in her maturity. “I turned a robotic. However not only a robotic — a kind of youngster robotic,” she penned within the tell-all e-book. “I had been so infantilized that I used to be shedding items of what made me really feel like myself. The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a toddler. I turned extra of an entity than an individual onstage. I had all the time felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.” The Grammy winner was below the conservatorship from 2008 till it was terminated in November 2021.
