Britney Spears’ recently released memoir, “The Woman In Me,” is a howl of rage that appears more justified with every chapter, writes Holly Thomas.
Britney Spears’ recently released memoir, “The Woman In Me,” opens with a succinct but devastating bit of family history. Her paternal grandfather dispatched her grandmother Jean to an asylum. Jean was consumed with grief following the death of their three-day-old baby. She was put on lithium in the facility and subsequently shot herself over the grave of her dead child. “Tragedy runs in my family,” Spears observes. Given what follows, it’s hard to argue.
As the media storm around Meghan Markle’s father has recently demonstrated, public efforts to “reconnect” tend to garner support, or at the very least, attention. And Spears wasn’t set up to object. Having been marketed as a virginal American sweetheart from her mid-teens, Spears was compelled to offer proof of her wholesome family ethos throughout her early career. In a now-notorious 2003 interview, Diane Sawyer asked the then-21-year-old to justify her breakup with Justin Timberlake .
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