Emma Roberts Weighs in on Britney Spears Biopic Casting Rumors

Britney Spears met Justin Timberlake erstwhile they were Mouseketeers connected Disney Channel's The Mickey Mouse Club successful the aboriginal 1990s on with Christina Aguilera and somewhat older talents including Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling and Tony Lucca.

Though it would beryllium immoderate years earlier they dated, falling for each different erstwhile she went connected circuit with *NSYNC, Britney writes that she and Justin shared their archetypal buss portion playing Truth oregon Dare during a formed sleepover with—insert irony here—a Janet Jackson opus playing successful the background.

Among the devastating debased points Britney describes astir dating Justin, she shares that she had a aesculapian abortion due to the fact that his presumption was that they were some excessively young to go parents. She underwent the process astatine home, she writes, recalling Justin lying connected the bath level with her and strumming his guitar during what she calls "one of the astir agonizing things I person ever experienced successful my life."

She inactive isn't definite if she made the close choice, adding, "If it had been near up to maine alone, I ne'er would person done it. And yet Justin was truthful definite that helium didn't privation to beryllium a father."

E! News reached retired to Justin's rep and did not instantly perceive back.

But arsenic assorted Justin-centric anecdotes successful Britney's publication made headlines up of its release, a root shared that the 42-year-old is moving connected caller music, positive helium and woman Jessica Biel are feeling large and keeping engaged with sons Silas, 8, and Phineas, 2.

According to Britney, Justin is successful the club of celebrities who've ended relationships with the equivalent of a integer Post-It.

She was truthful "devastated," she recalls, she "could hardly talk for months."

Britney went backmost location to Kentwood, La., to recover—and, post-breakup, she writes, Justin flew retired determination to personally present a missive helium wrote and had framed that concluded, "I can't respire without you."

Recalling the insinuations in Justin's "Cry Me a River" video that she had cheated connected him, Britney writes of having to woody with the fallout, feeling "comatose successful Louisiana" portion her ex was "happily moving astir Hollywood."

She points to her cringe-inducing November 2003 interrogation with Diane Sawyer, arranged by her begetter and manager, successful which the writer grilled her astir the symptom she supposedly caused Justin arsenic her "breaking point."

"I felt similar I had been exploited," she writes, "set up successful beforehand of the full world."

As was rumored years ago, Britney admits to making retired with dancer-choreographer Wade Robson at a barroom 1 nighttime portion she was dating Justin. But she attributes the gossip that Justin was cheating on her for pushing her into that mindset.

Otherwise, she writes, she was faithful to Justin.

It wasn't overmuch of a concealed 20 years agone that something was going connected betwixt Britney and Colin Farrell, and she describes their fling arsenic a physically aggravated mates of weeks.

"Brawl is the lone connection for it—we were each implicit each other, grappling truthful passionately it was similar we were successful a thoroughfare fight," Britney writes.

However, she admittedly wasn't "over Justin" erstwhile she was Colin's day to the Jan. 28, 2003, premiere of The Recruit, wherever the Irish histrion told reporters they were "just mates" and not dating, but "she's a sweet, saccharine girl."

Britney writes in The Woman successful Me, "But for a little infinitesimal successful time, I did deliberation determination could beryllium thing there. The disappointments successful my romanticist beingness were conscionable 1 portion of however isolated I became. I felt truthful awkward each the time."

E! News has reached retired to Colin's rep for remark but did not perceive back.

Britney was bored and "just honestly precise drunk," she writes, erstwhile she and puerility person Jason Alexander swapped vows successful Las Vegas successful January 2004. The national was annulled 55 hours later.

She marveled implicit her family's reaction—"like I'd started World War III"—but it was "innocent fun" arsenic acold arsenic she was concerned.

(Meanwhile, Jason was arrested and pleaded nary contention to trespassing connected Britney's more consequential wedding day erstwhile she married Sam Asghari at home connected June 9, 2022.)

The unforgettable nighttime successful February 2007 erstwhile Britney walked into a Los Angeles-area salon and buzzed each her hairsbreadth off was a response to the changeless objectification she'd been subjected to since coming of property successful the spotlight. (She notes elsewhere successful the publication that she went connected Prozac astir the clip Oops...I Did It Again was blowing up to woody with the heightened scrutiny.) 

"I'd been looked up and down, had radical telling maine what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager," she writes. "Shaving my caput and acting retired were my ways of pushing back."

She was besides "out of my caput with grief" portion locked successful a custody conflict with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their sons, Sean and Jayden (who are present 18 and 17).

"Flailing those weeks without my children, I mislaid it, implicit and implicit again," she recalls. "I didn't adjacent truly cognize however to instrumentality attraction of myself." She famously smacked a paparazzo's car with an umbrella, her caller haircut adding to the play of it all, and remembers her thought process astatine the clip increasing progressively childlike portion she was inactive "in the throes of severe postpartum depression" and dealing with the extremity of her marriage.

Kevin was aboriginal granted sole physical custody of their kids connected Oct. 1, 2007.

Britney was placed successful a conservatorship connected Feb. 1, 2008—initially aft a bid of emergencies, including the prima being enactment connected 2 5150 holds successful January 2008, but past it was extended indefinitely.

The "...Baby One More Time" vocalist recalls that she "begged the tribunal to name virtually anyone else" than her father, Jamie Spears, arsenic her conservator. (Lawyer Andrew Wallet was co-conservator until March 2019.)

But she says she gave up the ineligible combat to escaped herself aboriginal connected truthful she could beryllium reunited with her kids arsenic soon arsenic possible.

"My state successful speech for naps with my children—it was a commercialized I was consenting to make," she writes. "There is thing I emotion more—nothing much improtant to maine connected this earth—than my children. I'd laic down my beingness for them."

Britney describes the alleged confines of the conservatorship arsenic being excessively "sick to take my ain fellow and yet someway steadfast capable to look connected sitcoms and greeting shows, and to execute for thousands of radical successful a antithetic portion of the satellite each week!" 

Eventually, Britney writes, she "began to deliberation that [dad Jamie] saw maine arsenic enactment connected the world for nary different crushed than to assistance their currency flow."

She alleges she wasn't adjacent allowed to alteration her acceptable database erstwhile she wanted to during her wildly palmy Las Vegas residency astatine Planet Hollywood. 

"My euphony was my life," she writes, "and the conservatorship was deadly for that; it crushed my soul."

Jamie, who took immoderate clip away from being co-conservator successful 2019 portion helium dealt with wellness issues and then stepped down for good in September 2021, has stated aggregate times successful the past that he believed the decisions helium was making were successful Britney's champion interest.

From her portioned-out medicine to the settings connected her iPhone, Britney writes, "Everything was scrutinized and controlled. Everything."

Including, she alleges, her weight. "If I thought getting criticized astir my assemblage successful the property was bad, it wounded adjacent much from my ain father," she writes. "He repeatedly told maine I looked abdominous and that I was going to person to bash thing astir it."

While she was notably soundless astir the circumstances of her beingness during astir of the 13 years she spent in the conservatorship, Britney alleges she did effort to accidental something...once.

"I adjacent mentioned the conservatorship connected a speech amusement successful 2016," she writes, "but someway that portion of the interrogation didn't marque it to the air. Huh. How interesting."

During what Britney describes arsenic her involuntary travel to rehab successful aboriginal 2019—"My begetter said that if I didn't go, past I'd person to spell to court, and I'd beryllium embarrassed," she writes—she recalls being prescribed lithium and being kept determination "against my will" for months.

"I couldn't spell outside," she continues. "I couldn't thrust a car. I had to springiness humor weekly. I couldn't instrumentality a bath successful private. I couldn't unopen the doorway to my room."

From the facility, Britney texted Jamie Lynn Spears, pleading for help, she writes. Her small sister's response, per the book, was, "Stop warring it. There's thing you tin bash astir it, truthful halt warring it."

Britney felt betrayed, writing, "I didn't recognize however Jamie Lynn and our begetter had developed specified a bully relationship. She knew I was reaching retired to her for help...I felt similar she should person taken my side."

In aboriginal 2022 the siblings publically sparred implicit Jamie Lynn's memoir, Things I Should Have Said.

Jamie Lynn "rushed retired salacious stories astir me, galore of them hurtful and outrageous," Britney reiterates successful her book. But, she concludes, she loves her sis, adding, "I'm moving to consciousness much compassion than choler toward her and toward everyone who I consciousness has wronged me. It's not that easy."

E! News has reached retired to Jamie Lynn for comment. She said on E!'s Daily Pop in 2022 that she and Britney "go backmost and forth, but astatine the extremity of the day, the emotion and enactment volition ever beryllium there."

Britney notes that it was during her 2019 rehab enactment that she archetypal saw YouTube clips, courtesy of a caregiver astatine the facility, alerting her to the beingness of the unofficial but vigilant #FreeBritney movement.

As the years went by and the nationalist treatment astir whether she inactive should beryllium successful a conservatorship intensified, Britney kept up with the news.

"Seeing the documentaries astir maine was rough," she writes. "I recognize that everyone's bosom was successful the close place, but I was wounded that immoderate aged friends spoke to filmmakers without consulting maine first." She adds, "There was truthful overmuch guessing astir what I indispensable person thought oregon felt."

When Jamie was removed arsenic co-conservator successful September 2021, "I felt alleviation expanse implicit me," Britney recalls. "The antheral who had frightened maine arsenic a kid and ruled implicit maine arsenic an adult, who had done much than anyone to undermine my self-confidence, was nary longer successful power of my life."

She was astatine a edifice successful Tahiti connected Nov. 12, 2021, erstwhile her lawyer called to archer her a justice had terminated the conservatorship entirely.

Britney relishes being escaped to station immoderate she wants connected societal media now, including the occasional strategically censored nude selfie. 

 "I cognize that a batch of radical don't recognize wherefore I emotion taking pictures of myself bare oregon successful caller dresses," she explains. "But I deliberation if they'd been photographed by different radical thousands of times, prodded and posed for different people's approval, they'd recognize that I get a batch of joyousness from posing the mode I consciousness sexy and taking my ain picture, doing immoderate I privation with it."

Britney writes that she has suffered "physical and affectional damage" from being successful the conservatorship, and inactive gets migraines.

"I don't deliberation my household understands the existent harm that they did," she writes.

But she doesn't instrumentality state for granted, whether that means "taking a interruption from Instagram without radical calling 911" oregon "being capable to marque mistakes, and learning from them."

It means "I don't person to execute for anyone—onstage oregon offstage," she writes. "Freedom means that I get to beryllium arsenic beautifully imperfect arsenic everyone else. And state means the ability, and the right, to hunt for joy, successful my ain way, connected my ain terms."