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The devastating truth is that broken, bedraggled Britney is her own worst enemy… Now, MAUREEN CALLAHAN admits: I sorely regret calling for the end of her vital conservatorship
It is abundantly clear that those who argued to #FreeBritney, myself included, were very wrong. Dragged out of the Chateau Marmont is hardly the post-conservatorship victory we all rooted for.
We're in a moment of cultural reckoning with childhood fame and its monstrous costs: From the shocking docuseries 'Quiet on the Set' to Jennette McCurdy 's runaway bestselling memoir 'I'm Glad My Mom Died' to Justin Bieber 's breakdown this week. Spears' memoir, wishfully titled 'The Woman in Me': It is a strange book, the rantings of a rage-filled author who does not know or understand herself, who discusses — to an extent — her heavy drug use and losing custody of her sons, but who takes zero responsibility for her life or the wreck it has become. Britney Spears recalls no other celebrity right now more than Matthew Perry, who also wrote a self-serving memoir that was a total fiction, that tied his messy, complicated, self-pitying and blame-free life into a nice little bow, and who ultimately fell victim to the truth: He was a drug addict who abused the people around him, nothing more, and possibly possessed a death wish greater than he knew.
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