I was a fan of her from her 1st single and 1st album. I have bought her cds and gone to her concerts and worn the t shirts. Everyone “turned” on her when she had her mental breakdown but I could have practically been chris crocker screaming “leave Britney alone.”

So. Given my admiration of her, I’ve always known she wasn’t a very intelligent, deep thinking person. That paired with mental illness… she was the perfect victim to be exploited, manipulated, and controlled. For years she’s given interviews saying she just wanted to be a mom and raise her boys. If you’ve followed her public story with the slightest amount of discernment it was so clear she was being abused.

So I don’t think she wrote the book as some literary masterpiece. I think she wanted her story out there, and I think she deserved to have it told. She’s a very unpolished and uneducated person surrounded by people who needed to keep her that way to control her. But she’s very human: flawed, silly, traumatized, and her memories are likely inconsistent. She’s strong but emotionally immature. She’s had to be to survive.