The Real Scoop On Lynne Spears’s New Book
Last week I reported that shocking information that was reportedly taken from Lynne Spears’s new book Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World revealed that Britney Spears had engaged in very dangerous behavior at a very young age. Pink readers left quite a few comments that doubted the legitimacy of the original report … and it turns out they were right. A new report from the Associated Press paints a very different picture concerning the information in Lynne’s new book … a picture that makes Lynne a more sympathetic character, which makes more sense overall:
The mother of Britney Spears says that the singer has overcome the tabloid nightmares of the past few years and believes that little by little, her daughter is regaining her “glorious voice.” Lynne Spears writes of her famous child and her other celebrity daughter, Jamie Lynn, in “Through the Storm,” to be published Sept. 16 by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. The Associated Press obtained an early copy. The 211-page book, which includes several pages of family photographs, tracks Britney Spears’ life through her precocious early years _ she was singing and dancing by the time she was 3 _ through her explosive rise to her pill-addicted, near-tragic fall. Lynne Spears describes young Britney as a confident, outgoing girl whose talents were so obvious that family friends would insist she would one day be on Broadway. Spears rejects the image that she pushed Britney into show business, and writes that the singer was always focused on achievement and would constantly practice to the music of Madonna, Whitney Houston and others. In “Through the Storm,” Lynne Spears presents herself as a loving, selfless (she gave up her job as a school teacher for her daughter’s sake) but increasingly powerless parent. After the jolting, but pleasant surprise of Britney Spears’ debut smash, ” … Baby One More Time,” Lynne Spears says she felt she was losing control when a 1999 Rolling Stone magazine story featured a racy cover of the singer in panties and a bra. Lynne Spears recalls feeling “shock and dismay” at seeing her daughter shave her head, at her brief marriages to childhood friend Jason Alexander and dancer-rapper Kevin Federline, and her highly publicized custody battles over her two children. She also recalls feeling she had been “punched in the stomach” when she learned that Jamie Lynn Spears was pregnant at age 16 … The bottom came in the past two years with Britney Spears’ increasingly disturbing public behavior and her drugged private life in her Malibu, Calif., house. Lynne Spears writes that she was distraught as then-manager Sam Lufti told her he was grinding pills and putting them in Britney’s food, hoping to induce a coma that would enable doctors to cure her of all addictions. Britney Spears was hospitalized twice this year, the second time in February, when paramedics took her to the psychiatric ward of the UCLA Medical Center, where her mother says she finally received the care she needed. It was, Lynne Spears writes, a “turning point” for the entire family … Mother and daughter are close again, Lynne Spears writes, and Britney remains a “brave little girl who sang to the skies” so long ago.
Now this sounds more like it. Even tho I fear the book may end up being a spin job that makes Lynne and the Spears family look as favorable as possible, I’m still dying to read this book when it gets released next week.
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September 9th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Um….so i guess noone needs to buy the book now because that report just summed it up…’Britney was going to be a star, Britney became a star, Britney had some troubles, Britney’s good now’…so really, Lynne didn’t need to write a book, and she shouldn’t be publishing a book like that, Brit’s just getting her life back on track, why reveal everything that could just lead to her falling again? Ugh…
September 9th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
These background ads are annoying. I like Bonnie Hunt well enough, but I don’t like her peering out from each side of the goss!
September 9th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Despite being shocked at the fake rumours of the contents of her book, this doesn’t surprise me. It’s a total PR spin… much like the VMAs being fixed to make Britney win 3 awards her video ‘Piece of Me’ didn’t deserve. My personal outlook of course. After being in the spotlight for years and years and having many music videos and not winning once, I would’ve been surprised. Britney wasn’t. At all. Totally fixed. MTV gets the ratings, she gets more buzz, everyone won. Except of course the stars who DID deserve those VMA awards.
September 9th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Well, I’m not going to read the book. I feel she’s probably only written what she thinks the public will want to know. She’s not going to make herself out to be an incompetant mother, which I still maintain she is. And people wonder why Britney didn’t grasp the concept of motherhood! Where was Lynne Spears when Britney was going through all her bad stuff? I have 3 adult children and I know that even now, if they were on the wrong track I could deal with them.
Sorry, but I think the book will be a whitewash
September 9th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
well.. i live in louisiana an hour from N.O. and 30 mins from where brit grew up.. and you CAN get away with drinking (unfortunately) at a very young age here.. and to go to new orleans and be underage is nothing. you can get in clubs and drink as long as you can shake your boobs at the right bouncer. they like pretty girls.. so .. i can believe all the stories.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:11 am
Surely though any really sympathetic mother wouldn’t be making revelations about her kids, especially the though time they have both had the past year or so?
September 10th, 2008 at 8:27 am
I agree Nicola, but that just goes to show Britney has power which only some celebs wish they had.
Go Britney!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I’m curious to know if Sam Lufti is being prosecuted for drugging Britney, if that is indeed true.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:10 am
You know what I love is that Brit was not a virgin the whole time she claimed to be…makes you wonder about Mily Cyrus…and all those other “good girls”.
September 10th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Haha, yea I agree with Christina… I was thinking that during the VMAs what with all the promise-ring talk. Sure, cheer on the Jonas Bros. and Miley Cyrus and Jordan Sparks now, but we’ll see where they stand in a few years when something slips out to the public….sadly enough Hollywood is no place for virgins.
November 17th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
yeah im not a big britney fan.. She scares me as she scares me as she does everybody really yeah natalie maines is cool i thought you miight want to know..