Britney Spears Reveals She Used To Drink With Her Mom When She Was In 8th Grade
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Britney Spears' highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, will be released October 24, 2023.
The singer has shared excerpts from her book with PEOPLE, including one about drinking with her mom when she was in eighth grade.
"I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then," Britney wrote. "...We became happier, more alive and adventurous. "
Britney Spears is dropping major revelations with the first excerpt of her highly-anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me. Excerpts include a few mother-daughter happy hours...when she was in middle school.
According to the "Oops!...I Did It Again" singer, who released the first taste of her book to PEOPLE on Tuesday, she and mom Lynne would drink daiquiris together when she was just in the eighth grade.
"For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris," Britney writes in the excerpt. "We called our cocktails 'toddies.'"
And while she may have been well below the legal drinking age, she says her experience with alcohol was much different than her controversial father's.
"I loved that I was able to drink with my mom every now and then," the pop star continues. "The way we drank was nothing like how my father did it. When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down. We became happier, more alive and adventurous. "
Following Britney's stint on the Mickey Mouse Club in 1994, the "Toxic" singer returned to ~normal life~ in Kentwood, Louisiana—but not for long. Britney's pop career took off with her first album, ...Baby One More Time, in 1999, and her fame only grew throughout the early aughts. Eventually, Britney was put under the conservatorship of her father in 2008.
"I became a robot. But not just a robot—a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself," she writes in her memoir, according to Billboard. "The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me."
Under the conservatorship of her father, Britney had to grow out her hair and "get back into shape," per her father's demands. "He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it."
Britney's memoir is set to hit book stores on October 24.
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