Britney Spears’ memoir ‘accidentally’ goes on sale in Mexico days before official release date

Britney Spears’ forthcoming memoir is already sending shockwaves through the entertainment world, days before its official release date.

Titled The Woman in Me, Spears’ autobiography is scheduled for release on Tuesday (24 October), however, images on social media seem to reveal the book has been accidentally put on sale in Mexico.

It is published by Simon and Schuster in the UK.

Among the biggest headlines to come out of the book so far are claims that Spears had an abortion while she was dating Justin Timberlake.

She also detailed the aftermath of their split, from the fallout from Timberlake’s hit song “Cry Me a River” to her fling with Irish actor Colin Farrell.

One subject that reportedly won’t feature in The Woman in Me, however, is Spears’ recent divorce from ex-husband Sam Asghari after 14 months of marriage.

According to reports, Spears gave her final sign-off to Simon and Schuster mere weeks before it was announced that Asghari had filed for divorce, meaning she has “no right to demand any further changes”.

‘The Notebook’

Britney Spears’ tearful The Notebook audition with Ryan Gosling has been released after 21 years.

The romance movie, which is based on the 1996 novel by Nicolas Sparks, stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as teenagers Noah Calhoun and Alison “Allie” Hamilton, who fall in love in the 1940s.

In the audition tape, published by the Daily Mail on Monday (23 October), Spears reads an emotional scene with Gosling off camera in which Allie tells Noah she is marrying another man.

Spears beat out Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams and Jessica Biel before the role eventually went to Rachel McAdams.

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In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, obtained by the New York Times, Spears wrote about how the breakup affected her after their three-year relationship.

According to the memoir, the 2002 breakup left her “devastated” and she had even considered leaving the music industry entirely during that time. Spears wrote about how the separation didn’t even seem to faze Timberlake. “I was comatose in Louisiana, and he was happily running around Hollywood,” she wrote, according to the NYTimes.

Ahead of the release of Britney Spears’ highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, much attention has been focused on her previous relationship with her ex-husband, Sam Asghari.

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In August, it was announced that the pop star, 41, and the Iranian-American model, 29, were divorcing after nearly seven years together. Just 14 months earlier, Spears and Asghari were married in what he described as a “fairytale” backyard wedding ceremony. However, a number of rumours emerged around Spears’s alleged infidelity, while tabloids claimed that Asghari was attempting to renegotiate their prenuptial agreement – but his representative later denied this was the case.

Spears’ ex-husband has revealed that he’s already read her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me.

With the singer’s memoir set to be released on 24 October, Asghari said he has obtained an early copy and already read it.

In an interview with TMZ, he explained that he wasn’t worried about anything written in the book that could paint him in a negative light. “I already read it and I’m very proud of her,” he told the outlet.

“She put a lot of work into it, and it was very hard,” Asghari continued. “I’m definitely excited, and I’m extremely proud of her. It was a very tough one [to write].”

The actor said that when the book does come out, he’ll be the first one in line to buy a copy of the memoir.

Britney Spears will not read her own audiobook

Michelle Williams will narrate the audio version of Britney Spears’s highly anticipated memoir, after the singer admitted she’d found it too painful to “relive” her experiences once more.

The “Toxic” singer is soon to release her first memoir, titled The Woman In Me. But while fans had hoped for an audiobook narrated by Spears herself, the 41-year-old has now shared that she will not be the one to read the book.

Conservatorship

One topic sure to feature heavily in The Woman in Me is Spears’s conservatorship, the legal guardianship she was placed under for 13 years and released from in 2021.

In an extract already shared with People, the musician described how the conservatorship “stripped me of my womanhood”, turning her into a “sort of child-robot”.

Spears recalled first learning about the #FreeBritney movement from a nurse while she was “locked up” at a Beverly Hills rehab centre.

During that period, which lasted from 2008 to 2021, superfans of the “Toxic” singer banded together to bring awareness to the conservatorship after they became concerned for her safety and well-being.

In 2018, Spears tried to fight against the conservatorship; however, she was forced to undergo further mental health evaluations and another rehab stay, she wrote in her forthcoming memoir, The Woman in Me.

The controversial legal arrangement came to an end in November 2021, 13 years after it was put in place in 2008. “The conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is no longer required,” said Judge Brenda J Penny in a decision that gave the pop star back all of her legal rights.

The Independent