The Biggest Secrets Britney Spears Exposed In Her Memoir - Part 3
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00:00 Britney has revealed so many secrets in her book The Woman In Me, so were back at it again
00:12 with part 3 of the biggest secrets that Britney Spears exposed in her memoir.
00:22 Britney Spears accuses her father, Jamie Spears of exploiting her image for financial gain
00:27 during her conservatorship.
00:33 She recalls a moment when he literally said to her, "I'm Britney Spears now" and this
00:39 pointed to his new control that he had over her persona.
00:51 Like everything Britney, he had control of.
00:54 She goes on to highlight the contradiction of being deemed too sick by her father to
01:00 choose her own boyfriend while being expected to appear on TV and perform shows for large
01:07 audiences worldwide.
01:22 Feeling like you're never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child.
01:27 He drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I'd accomplished so much,
01:34 he was continuing to do that to me.
01:36 There was also another part in her memoir where Britney Spears reflects on her iconic
01:40 2001 MTV Video Music Awards performance.
01:49 She shares her thoughts during the act with the Burmese python named Banana that was wrapped
01:55 around her shoulders.
02:01 Her plan was to perform her song "I'm a Slave for You" with the snake as a prop, but Britney
02:06 Spears reveals it was a lot scarier than it looked.
02:11 She describes the moment when the snake got really close up to her and its head was coming
02:17 right up to her face and he was hissing and flicking its tongue.
02:22 And Britney kept her head down because she feared that it would actually hurt her if
02:28 she made eye contact with it.
02:30 Luckily it paid off and it goes down as one of the most surprising performance moments
02:36 in history.
02:38 Going back to January of 2004, Britney and her friend Jason Alexander, she said that
02:43 they were both intoxicated as well as they impulsively went to the Little White Chapel
02:48 over in Las Vegas after staying up really late one night.
02:53 And Britney Spears clarifies in her memoir that they never were actually in love.
02:58 She was simply very drunk and she was bored at that time in her life.
03:02 And she viewed the wedding as an innocent fun act but was surprised by her family's
03:07 reaction, which she describes as if she had started World War 3.
03:12 The marriage was annulled 55 hours after the fact.
03:16 So very short lived and that was like a surprising blip in the life of Britney Spears.
03:22 But yeah, she never was in love with him.
03:25 Britney then recalls another complex relationship with her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears.
03:31 And despite their public feuds, Britney does acknowledge the bond of sisterhood that they
03:36 have and she expresses that she has so much love for Jamie Lynn as well as she has so
03:41 much love for her family.
03:43 And she admits struggling to balance compassion with anger and said that forgiveness isn't
03:49 easy.
03:50 Here's what Britney wrote about this.
03:51 "She will always be my sister and I love her and her beautiful family.
03:56 I'm working to feel more compassion than anger toward her and everyone who I feel has
04:02 wronged me.
04:03 It's not that easy."
04:04 Britney recounts being very protective of Jamie Lynn, sharing an incident where she
04:09 confronted one of Jamie Lynn's Zoey 101 co-stars after her sister complained about
04:15 the actress.
04:16 And she also discusses her emotions upon learning about Jamie Lynn's teenage pregnancy.
04:22 Britney Spears also goes on to write about how she first learned about the #FreeBritney
04:29 movement.
04:30 She found out while she was actually in rehab back in 2018.
04:33 And at that time, she was resisting her court-ordered conservatorship.
04:37 And Britney describes feeling forced into rehab by her father, who threatened that she
04:43 would be publicly embarrassed if she didn't comply.
04:47 During her stay in rehab, a nurse showed her videos of fans supporting the #FreeBritney
04:54 movement, which it was really a moving experience for Britney.
04:58 She then opened up about the profound impact that the movement had on her, especially during
05:04 its early stages, expressing a lot of gratitude for the supporters who questioned the necessity
05:09 of the conservatorship in the first place.
05:12 And yeah, if it wasn't for Britney's fans supporting her so much, she may have lost
05:17 the will to keep on going, and perhaps would still be under the conservatorship today.
05:22 And with that said, we made it to the end of another video looking at part 3 of the
05:26 biggest secrets that Britney Spears exposed in her memoir.
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05:33 Let me know your thoughts down below.
05:35 Until next time, stay awesome.
05:37 Boom.