Britney Spears recalls the moment her mother Lynne forced her to pick up trash as punishment for sneaking out of school to meet the teenage boy she lost her virginity to at 14.
In her new memoir, The Woman In Me, the 41-year-old opened up about being caught skipping school to see a boy, as she details the subsequent punishment meted out to her by her mother.
According to the singer, her mother, now 68, was furious when she discovered her daughter had missed college to spend time with a much older boy – something she learned when Britney’s brother Bryan told her about her.
She revealed Lynne forced her to ‘pick up rubbish… like a prisoner’ – while her older sibling happily took pictures of her as she completed her sentence.
In the book, Britney also admitted that she fell in love with several boys years older than her when she was in school, and recalled some pivotal moments in her first sexual relationships.
‘One night I slept over at my ‘bad’ friend’s house. Without warning, the man I was in love with snuck into the house in the middle of the night – it must have been three in the morning,” reads an excerpt from the book, which will be released on October 24.
Britney Spears recounted being caught as a teenager sneaking out to see a boy, and the subsequent punishment her mother gave her (pictured here)
The singer detailed the punishment, which involved her walking around the neighborhood picking up trash while her brother followed her and took photos
“I was sleeping on the couch and woke up to him sitting next to me,” she continued. “He started kissing me, and then we were making out on the couch.”
The singer then explains how shocked she was by the boy’s interest in her, describing the moment “like a séance” because it felt like she had “cast a spell on him.”
“I couldn’t believe my crush just showed up out of nowhere and started making out with me,” she continued — before noting that the “sweet” experience didn’t extend beyond the kissing.
Britney also recalled falling in love with her brother’s friends in ninth grade, and remembered one boy in particular who was three years older than her.
“That year I liked a lot of the guys in my brother’s audience,” she said. “As a kid, Bryan (my brother) was funny, weird, in the best way. But when he was a senior, he became the king of the school, an absolute bad boy.
“His senior year, I started dating his best friend. I lost my virginity to him,” she continued, adding that she was “young” for ninth grade and that the man was 17.
She continued, explaining how she sneaked out during the school day to meet her boyfriend, admitting that the relationship “ended up taking a lot of (her) time,” and that she missed several days of school after getting her autograph mother had forged.
“I would go to school at 7am as normal, but leave around lunchtime, around 1pm, and spend the afternoon with him,” she said.
“Then he drove me back as soon as school let out. “I just innocently got on the bus and went home as if nothing had happened,” she recalls.
Britney recalled having crushes on boys much older than her, writing about a time when she was staying over at a friend’s house and her crush came over, saying he woke her up and they were “totally making out.” on the couch.
The singer fell in love with her older brother Bryan’s friends, and she subsequently lost her virginity to one, prompting Bryan to tell their parents.
As punishment for sneaking out to meet the boy, Britney said she had to walk around the neighborhood with a bucket all day and pick up trash like a prisoner on the freeway.
However, her mother eventually found out what was going on after the school called her and informed her that Britney had missed a total of 17 days.
“The age difference between me and this man was huge – obviously – now it seems outrageous,” the pop star admitted.
“So my brother, who was always very protective, started hating him,” she continued.
“When Bryan caught me sneaking out to visit his friend, he told our parents.”
“As punishment, I had to walk around the neighborhood all day with a bucket and pick up trash like a prisoner on the highway,” the singer recalls.
“Bryan followed me around taking pictures while I picked up trash while crying,” she said.
Britney shared a long note about the attention surrounding her book on Instagram last week.
“I don’t like the headlines I read,” she wrote in black font against a stark white background.
“The purpose of my book was not to offend anyone in any way,” the note continued. ‘That was me then. That is past tense.’
The pop star said after her brother Bryan (pictured centre) told their mother Lynne (right) that she had been punished, Bryan followed her taking pictures as she cried (pictured in 2006)
The singer (pictured in 2000) revealed she had an abortion at age 19 because Justin Timberlake ‘wasn’t ready to be a father’
“Most of the book is from twenty years ago,” she continued. ‘I’ve moved on and it’s a beautiful clean slate from here!!!’
The pop star added: “I’m here to fix it like this for the rest of my life!!! Anyway, that’s the last one and s*** happens!!!’
In the autobiography, the Circus singer exposes her fraught relationships with her ex Justin Timberlake, her parents Jamie and Lynn and her younger sister Jamie Lynn, who she accused of being a ‘total b****’ at the age of 11 been.
From excerpts from the book seen on various media, the star revealed that she had an abortion at the age of 19 because Justin Timberlake “wasn’t ready to be a father.”
She wrote that she wanted the baby and “dreamed of starting a family” with Justin, who was also 19 at the time. Ultimately, he was “not ready” for the responsibilities of fatherhood.
‘It was a surprise, but for me it was not a tragedy. I loved Justin so much. I always expected that one day we would start a family together. This would just be a lot sooner than I expected,” she wrote in an excerpt obtained by People.
“He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young. I’m sure people will hate me for this, but I agreed not to have the baby.
‘I don’t know if that was the right decision. If it had been up to me alone, I would never have done it. And yet Justin was so sure he didn’t want to be a father.’