Britney Spears has claimed she was allowed to drink alcohol when she was only in eighth grade.
In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, the 41-year-old pop singer, who recently revealed she had an abortion at age 19 with ex Justin Timberlake, recalls drinking daiquiris with her mother Lynne during short road trips after The All-New Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1995.
The star – who would have been 13 or 14 years old at the time – said she had just returned to her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana and was going to drive two hours to Biloxi, Mississippi with her mother to enjoy “toddies.”
In an excerpt published by People On Tuesday, she admitted that they did that occasionally compared to her father’s alleged drinking habits.
The Toxic hitmaker – who detailed the brutal control her father had over her in her explosive tell-all account – said she only longed for ‘normality’ as a teenager, but realized her family really wasn’t ‘normal’.
Another revelation: Britney Spears has claimed that she was allowed to drink alcohol when she was only in eighth grade
Reflecting on her childhood: In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, the pop singer, 41, recalled drinking daiquiris with her mother Lynne on short road trips after the All-New Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1995 (photo 2000)
“For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mother and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there we would drink daiquiris,” she wrote in her book.
“We called our cocktails ‘toddies,’” she recalls. “I loved having drinks with my mother every now and then.”
She noted that “the way we drank was nothing like the way my father did it.”
“When he drank, he became more depressed and shut down,” she recalls. ‘We have become happier, more vibrant and more adventurous.’
However, she said she eventually started missing performing after enjoying time at home – a period of her life she described as “something so beautifully normal” when she had to go to school dances.
She eventually scored a recording contract with Jive Records at the age of 15 and became one of the biggest stars in the world.
After her divorce from Kevin Federline and two involuntary psychiatric arrests, her father requested to become her legal guardian and started a conservatorship that would last thirteen years.
“The conservatory took away my femininity, turned me into a child,” she wrote in her book. “I became more of an entity than a person on stage.”
As a teenager: At the time, she had just finished working on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club – which ended in 1995 – and moved back to her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana
Mother-daughter bond? “For fun, ever since I was in eighth grade, my mother and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there we would drink daiquiris.”
Coming soon: her highly anticipated tell-all will hit shelves on October 24th
She continued, “I had always felt music in my bones and blood; they stole that from me.’
In 2021, Spears testified against the “abusive” conservatorship and a Los Angeles judge effectively ended the arrangement.
Although her father denied the claims, the couple have remained estranged since the end of the conservatorship.
The Woman in Me will hit shelves on October 24.
