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Her star had fallen by 2007.
In some ways, Spears does the book equivalent of her bare-it-all Instagram posts inThe Woman in Me.
Except this time, its not written in emoji.
Below, the biggest revelations ahead of the memoirs official October 24 release.
Dating Justin Timberlake wasnt a fairy tale.
She and Timberlake reportedly had their first kiss at a sleepover in their teen years.
Eventually, the couple got together for real and officially dated from 1999 to 2002.
Spears thought they would last forever.
When she realized she was pregnant, the couple choseabortionbecause Timberlake wasnt yet ready to be a father.
It was a surprise, but for me, it wasnt a tragedy.
I loved Justin so much, Spears remembers, per an excerpt fromPeople.
I always expected us to have a family together one day.
This would just be much earlier than Id anticipated.
Timberlake wasnt happy about the pregnancy.
He said we werent ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.
Their breakup left Spears devastated.
She confirms that she kissed Wade Robson during their relationship and says Justin Timberlake cheated with an unnamed celebrity.
The subsequent Diane Sawyer interview post-breakup made her feel even worse.
I felt like I had been exploited, the bookreads, set up in front of the whole world.
Shaving her head was a way to push back against a leering public.
The act of shaving her head was, in part, a way to take back control.
Id been eyeballed so much growing up.
Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.
Spears says she never had a drinking problem, nor was she interested in hard drugs.
Her drug of choice was the ADHD medication Adderall, according to anexcerptfrom the New YorkTimes.
Her conservatorship was harrowing.
She describes how her relatively unrestricted life became tightly controlled, per the New YorkTimesreport.
I went from partying a lot to being a total monk, Britney writes.
Security guards handed me prepackaged envelopes of meds and watched me take them.
They put parental controls on my iPhone.
Everything was scrutinized and controlled.
It made her feel like a child-robot.
The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child.
I became more of an entity than a person onstage.
I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.
They kept me locked up against my will for months, she writes.
I couldnt go outside.
I couldnt drive a car.
I had to give blood weekly.
I couldnt take a bath in private.
I couldnt shut the door to my room.
It was also where Britney learned about the Free Britney movement.
The documentaries hurt.
Seeing the documentaries about me was rough.
She adds, There was so much guessing about what I must have thought or felt.
