Britney Spears is free... to tell her story. Or, more specifically, to tell it to a ghostwriter of her choosing – and according to reports, that ghostwriter is the American journalist and author Sam Lansky. Spears, a star whose story has been told every which way but hers, will offer her side in her highly anticipated memoir, The Woman in Me, released this week, and Lansky is believed to be the man tasked with pulling it all together.
“I’m writing a book at the moment and ... it’s actually healing and therapeutic”, mused Spears on Instagram back in April, appearing to confirm earlier reports that she had inked a book deal with Simon & Schuster, reportedly worth $15m (£12.3m). “It’s also hard bringing up past events in my life ... I’ve never been able to express openly.” That is putting it lightly. The Woman in Me, out this week, arrives almost exactly two years after one Judge Brenda Penny in Los Angeles put an end to the conservatorship that saw Spears’s life – her career, her words, her finances, who she saw, and even what she did with her body – dictated by her father, Jamie, for 13 years.
