Britney Spears' book 'The Woman In Me' makes private details public, and public events personal

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Britney Spears' highly anticipated memoir “The Woman in Me” will be released Tuesday, revealing the pop superstar's personal take on events that have played out publicly in her decades as one of the most scrutinized figures in American life, along with private moments that she previously kept under wraps. "It took hours, and I don’t remember how it ended, but I do, twenty years later, remember the pain of it, and the fear.” MAGICAL MUSICAL MOMENTS The song that launched Spears’ solo career, “…Baby One More Time” was directly inspired by Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love.” Spears was listening to it the night before she was going in to record with famed Swedish producer Max Martin She wanted to mimic the English synthpop duo’s sound, so she stayed up late, giving her voice the fried, raspy tone that would become iconic. Not long after, Spears felt pressured by her father to do what would become an infamous interview with Diane Sawyer, in which the host pushed her to explain what she did to Justin Timberlake to cause him “so much pain.” “I felt like I had been exploited,” she writes, “set up in front of the whole world.” Representatives for Timberlake did not respond to messages seeking comment. "It was a desperate move by a desperate person.” HER FATHER TAKES CONTROL When the court established the conservatorship in February of 2008, Spears said her father, with the power of law behind him, established absolute control over her life decisions and finances, at one point even telling her, “I’m Britney Spears now.” Spears says he forced her to break up with the photographer he had been dating, and subjected anyone else she wanted to date to extensive background checks.