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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Aneesa Ahmed

‘Out of my mind with grief’: Britney Spears details 2008 breakdown in memoir

Britney Spears in 2019.
Britney Spears in 2019. Photograph: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic

Britney Spears has revealed more details about her breakdown in 2007 and 2008 in her forthcoming memoir The Woman in Me.

Spears writes that during several of her public episodes – including shaving her head and attacking a paparazzo’s car – she was suffering from postnatal depression, grief after the death of her aunt and a custody battle with her ex-husband Kevin Federline.

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