Britney Spears is finally opening up about her two-week relationship with Colin Farrell in her long-awaited memoir The Woman Inside Me, which hits shelves next Tuesday.
The 41-year-old Grammy winner originally met the 47-year-old Oscar nominee through a ‘club promoter friend’ before visiting him on the set of his 2003 film SWAT and things heated up pretty quickly.
“Fighting is the only word for it – we were all over each other, we were fighting so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” Britney wrote in the excerpt he got TIME.
Spears then attended the premiere of Pharrell’s film The Recruit where he is said journalists: ‘We are not going out. She is a sweet, sweet girl. Nothing is happening – just comrades.’
The Mississippi-born singer has admitted she’s still not over her three-year relationship with Justin Timberlake, who she met on the set of The Mickey Mouse Club in Florida in 1992.
It hits shelves next Tuesday! Britney Spears finally opens up about her two-week relationship with Colin Farrell (L, pictured in 2003) in her long-awaited memoir The Woman Inside Me
“Like before when I felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it wasn’t a big deal, that we were just having fun, that in this case I was vulnerable because I wasn’t ‘I’m not over Justin yet,'” Britney wrote .
“For a brief moment, I thought there might be something there.” Disappointments in my romantic life were only one part of my isolation. I felt so uncomfortable all the time.’
Spears also alleged in her 288-page report that the 42-year-old Grammy winner slept with ‘six or seven girls’ in the weeks following their split in 2002: ‘It was a woman’s dream. I was in love with him.’
Semi-retired pop star – who received 15 million dollars for the book – also claimed Justin pressured her into an abortion when they got pregnant at 19.
July 24 Sun claimed that both Timberlake and the handsome Irishman’s lawyers threatened to sue, which delayed Britney’s book by four months.
“The lawyers demanded to see her book in advance and were adamant that some revelations were redacted,” a source told the outlet.
“There are still a lot of scary stories out there, but Justin and Colin were aware of what might be said about them.” The legal process meant that publication was delayed for four months while discussions went back and forth about what might be included. But that’s finally settled now and her autobiography is ready to go.’
The Woman in Me – which has already topped Amazon’s bestseller list – will not include any details about Spears’ split from third husband Sam Asghari, who filed for divorce from her on August 16 after 14 months of marriage.
‘Fight is the only word for it’: The 41-year-old Grammy winner originally met the 47-year-old Oscar nominee through a ‘club promoter friend’ before visiting him on the set of his 2003 film SWAT and things got heated pretty quickly
Britney wrote in an excerpt obtained by TIME: “We were all over each other, fighting so passionately it was like we were in a street fight.”
Spears then attended the premiere of Pharrell’s film The Recruit, where he told reporters: “We’re not dating. She is a sweet, sweet girl. Nothing happens – just friends
‘I’m still not over Justin’: The Mississippi-born singer has admitted she’s still not over her three-year relationship with Justin Timberlake (R, pictured in 2001), who she met in Florida on the set of The Mickey Mouse Club in 1992
‘It was a woman’s dream. I was in love with him’: Spears also detailed in her 288-page report that the 42-year-old Grammy winner slept with ‘six or seven girls’ in the weeks following their 2002 split.
Shock revelation! The semi-retired pop star – who was paid $15 million for the book – also claimed that Justin pressured her to have an abortion when they fell pregnant at 19.
The New York Times critic Leah Greenblatt wrote in her review published Thursday that it’s “nearly impossible to come out of it without empathy and real outrage on Spears’ behalf.”
“As free-spirited and often furious as she is, The Woman in Me is not quite the glittering feminist manifesto that some historical witnesses might have wanted Spears to write, nor the kind of granular, full-on autobiography of artist portraits that others have dutifully delivered in the past,” Greenblatt wrote.
“You could argue, though, that she’s never stopped telling us who she is—in intricate handheld Instagram videos and, of course, in her vast catalog of songs, with their lyrics about loneliness and emancipation, desire and defiance.” It’s just pop, after all, and Britney has done more than most to make it bigger, brighter, and more dazzling—a blonde supernova dancing on the edge of what many feel, from this vantage point, like monoculture’s last gasp. Now maybe we can let her live.’