Britney Spears on her breakdown: “I went crazy with grief”

Britney Spears on her breakdown
“I went crazy with grief”

Britney Spears (41) describes in her autobiography “The Woman in Me” how her public breakdowns happened in 2007 and 2008. This is what the “New York Times” reports in advance about the book. Regarding the incidents in which Spears, among other things, shaved her head or attacked a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella, she writes: She suffered from grief and the custody dispute with her ex-husband Kevin Federline (45).

“When my head was shaved, everyone was afraid of me, even my mother,” Spears explains in her book, according to the report. “During these weeks without my children, I repeatedly lost my composure.” According to the musician, she was “crazy with grief.”

Breakdowns led to guardianship of Britney Spears

The incidents led to the controversial guardianship of the singer in 2008. A court ruled at the time that her father, Jamie Spears, 71, and a lawyer should be given control over her private life, her schedule, her finances, her career and her possessions.

Spears writes in her book that she is willing to admit that she began “in the midst of severe postpartum depression, abandonment by my husband, the agony of separation from my two babies, the death of my beloved Aunt Sandra, and the constant pressure of the paparazzi.” , “to think like a child in some ways.” The conservatorship was only ended in November 2021 after a series of public court appearances by Britney Spears.

2007 was a difficult year for Britney Spears

With Kevin Federline she has two sons Sean Preston (18) and Jayden James (17). In November 2006, the singer filed for divorce from Federline after two years of marriage, which was finalized in the summer of 2007. Spears’ maternal aunt, Sandra Bridges Covington, with whom she was very close, died of ovarian cancer in January 2007.

Britney Spears’ autobiography “The Woman in Me: My Story” will be released on October 24th.

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