Singer needs good friends and family to take her far away from press and Hollywood temptation
Britney Spears. I promised myself and many friends, my husband, and readers, that I wouldn't venture into Spears territory for awhile. I lied. I just punched her name into Google and there were pages and pages about the singer entering rehab, leaving rehab, re-entering rehab, shaving her head, going clubbing in New York, wandering around without her undies, custody battles and so on.
I have to say I never thought I would feel sorry for the girl but I do. She’s scarcely in her mid-20s, she’s been performing since she was a tot and never had much of a childhood. Forget the zillions she’s earned, what’s she worth or the Malibu mansion she calls home. The girl is having a serious meltdown. And nobody is stepping up to help her. She needs an intervention.
Whether she has post-partum depression, is overwhelmed in her own skin, depressed about the break-up of her marriage, or just plain sick and tired of being followed around by parasitic paparazzi, the girl needs help.
I remember interviewing a sitcom star about the terrors of fame. He told me that he’s struggled to keep the his childhood friends in his life. Those same three friends keep him grounded, telling him when he’s acting like a brat, and remind him that he shouldn’t feel any more entitled than the rest of the population. They also remind him that money doesn’t buy happiness – for megastar celebrities it often buys loneliness. It takes years for them – particularly the child stars – to figure out who they are. What they’re really worth and …the meaning of life. There I said it.
Anyway, getting back to Britney, I think it’s high time to leave her alone. I think she should get out of Hollywood and go to Tahiti or somewhere really remote with her family and no cameras, no cellphones, no celebutantes like Paris Hilton to distract her, far from the temptation of drugs and alcohol. Eat some fresh pineapple and mango, enjoy the surf and just find her inner calm.
Then come back to the world and do what her fans love. Sing and dance. And look after her babies. Minus the drama.
