Britney Spears shared a statement on Instagram on Friday in which she insisted she wasn’t trying to ‘offend anyone’ in her explosive new memoir The Woman Inside Me.
Excerpts of the book were distributed to several media outlets ahead of the book’s October 24 release date.
And bombshell revelations are hitting the headlines.
On her pages, the 41-year-old reveals her difficult relationships with ex Justin Timberlake, parents Jamie and Lynn and younger sister Jamie Lynn, whom she accused of being a ‘total bitch’ at the time. from 11
However, in her new statement on Instagram, Britney expressed her dismay at the way the book is being perceived.
‘The purpose of my book was not to offend anyone!!! That was me then … that’s the past !!!’ she exclaimed. ‘I don’t like the headlines I read … this is exactly why I left my job 4 years ago !!!’
Cri de coeur: Britney Spears insisted she wasn’t trying to ‘offend anyone’ in her explosive new memoir The Woman Inside Me
Britney stated: ‘Most of the book is from 20 years ago… I moved on and it’s a beautiful clean slate from here !!! I am here to make it so for the rest of my life!!! Anyway this is the last one and s*** happens !!!’
Oops!…I did it again hitmaker mused: ‘This is actually a book I didn’t know was meant to be written… although some may be offended, it gave me an end to all things for a better future! !! I hope I can enlighten people who feel especially lonely in most cases or hurt and misunderstood !!!’
She doubled down: “Again, my motive for this book was not to dwell on my past experiences, which the press does and it’s stupid and stupid !!! Since then I have moved on !!! #TheWomanInMe’.
In a newly revealed excerpt from the book, Britney revealed that she lost her virginity long before her romance with Justin – without confronting her previous claims.
During the early years of her stardom, Britney supported a carefully constructed media image of the traditional Texas girl waiting for marriage to have sex.
The facade was blown to smithereens after her split from Justin, who vengefully blabbered in public that he and Britney were intimate.
In response, Britney claimed that V magazine that Justin, who she started dating when she was 17, was the ‘one person’ she slept with in ‘my whole life’.
Now, however, in a bombshell excerpt from her upcoming memoir that he has obtained Us WeeklyBritney told the true story of her first time.
Legs for days: Britney Spears has revealed she lost her virginity long before her romance with Justin Timberlake – not confronting her previous claims
What they were: After her split from Justin, he vengefully blathered on in public that he and Britney were intimate; the couple was photographed in 2000 during their romance
She revealed in her new book The Woman in Me that she was just 14 when she lost her virginity to her older brother’s 17-year-old best friend, Brian Spears.
Once she became famous, her sex life, or alleged lack thereof, was under the intense scrutiny of the media from her teenage years and well into adulthood.
She faced the slings and arrows of American parents who were furious about her raunchy performances, but she maintained that she was innocent in real life.
However, after she and Justin broke up in 2002, he publicly accused her of infidelity and shattered her virginal public persona.
During an interview with Justin, Barbara Walters read him a quote from Britney that stated, “Good morals mean waiting to have sex until you’re married.”
Justin agreed, and when Barbara asked, ‘Did you and her live up to this during your relationship?’ he laughed and laughed sarcastically saying, ‘Sure.’
Britney retorted in V that Justin is the only man she’s ever been with and that she waited “two years of my relationship” to get into bed with him.
‘And I thought he was The One. But I was wrong. I didn’t think they were going to go after Barbara Walters and sell me out,” she said emphatically.
Dropping it: Britney revealed she was just 14 when she lost her virginity to her older brother’s 17-year-old best friend Brian Spears; pictured with Brian in 2003
However, in 2008, Britney’s mother, Lynn Spears, published a memoir in which she announced that her pop princess daughter started having sex at 14.
She claimed that Britney’s first date was with an 18-year-old high school football player – something Britney has encouraged to this day to increase her popularity at school.
Over the past few weeks, in the run-up to the release of Britney’s book, a series of startling revelations have emerged from her pages.
One of her claims that recently went public is that Justin slept with ‘six or seven’ women in the immediate aftermath of their split.
Britney and Justin dated from 1999 to 2002 after they both became child stars when they starred in The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s.
In the extract he came up with TIMEBritney said Justin moved on quickly and addressed her short-lived relationship with Colin Farrell after their split.
History: Britney and Justin dated from 1999-2002 after they both became child stars when they starred in The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 90s
Britney said she was devastated after Justin dumped ‘six or seven girls’ in the weeks after they broke up.
She said: ‘He was a woman’s dream. I was in love with him.’
After Justin’s relationship with Britney, he embarked on a romance with Cameron Diaz.
They met a year after his breakup with Britney when she presented him with the award for Best Burp at the 2003 Kids Choice Awards.
She was 31 at the time, and he was 22. They have continued to this day for almost four years.
MailOnline has contacted Britney and Justin’s representatives for comment.
Britney said she hadn’t gotten over her ex-boyfriend when she met Colin, 47, through a ‘club promoter friend’ before visiting him on the set of his 2003 film SWAT.
They had a short-lived relationship that she said was passionate and compared it to a street fight.
“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 .
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
Moving on: After Justin’s relationship with Britney, he began a romance with Cameron Diaz (pictured in 2007)
“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.’
Britney candidly goes into detail about her failed romance with Justin in her memoir and the ‘painful’ decision to have an abortion after she became pregnant.
The singer said she got pregnant by Justin in 2000 but had an abortion because the N*Sync star ‘didn’t want to be a father’.
The star claimed that while she wanted a baby and ‘dreamed of having a family’ with Timberlake, he ‘wasn’t ready’ for the responsibilities of parenthood and thought the couple were too young.
She writes in the passage he came up with People: “It was a surprise, but it wasn’t a tragedy for me.” I loved Justin so much. I always expected that one day we would have a family together. This would be much sooner than I expected.
“He said that we are not ready to have a baby in our lives, that we are too young.” I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I’ve agreed not to have a baby.
“I don’t know if it was the right decision.” If it was up to me, I would never have done it. And yet Justin was so sure he didn’t want to be a father.’
Posted on October 24: In an excerpt from The Woman in Me, Britney said that Justin moved on quickly and addressed her short-lived relationship with Colin Farrell after their split
Spears will later welcome sons Sean Preston, 18, and Jaden, 17, with Kevin Federline, while Timberlake shares sons Silas, eight, and Phineas, two, with wife Jessica Biel.
July 24 Sun claimed that both Timberlake and Colin’s lawyers threatened to sue, delaying 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.
DailyMail.com has reached out to representatives for Timberlake, Spears and Simon & Schuster for comment.