[Music] the most famous 21 year old on the planet she's everywhere I would think you know her think again what happened here close well I have on close now Britney Spears and Diane Sawyer setting the record straight had a rough year a year that would test a lot of people he has kind of weird um oh my goodness oh [Music] [Music] no holds barred do you like your voice I think level is okay but I would love to have a voice I [Music] would love to have a place like Whitney Houston I loved everything and what about that too so here's the definitive for the last time ever mazanik tip okay okay and of course Justin you did something that caused him so much pain so much suffering what did you see inside Brittany on youth centered I just say that I did Ellen tonight in the zone with Brittany's beard good evening I'm Diane Sawyer Charlie's off tonight and we welcome you to a special edition of primetime Thursday as tonight we go exploring destination britney britney spears America's most famous paradox in pink the girl is a steel trap marketer with more than 52 million dollars in albums alone but she still frightens herself with worst case scenarios and constantly bites her nails to the quick especially now that she has a new CD coming out that has to try to build a bridge between Britney past and the Brittany to come ladies and gentlemen the most valuable square inch of real estate in the entertainment universe this is the girl who owns this 21 year old master of the trade watch me so weird sometimes I think I'm more comfortable on stage that I am in my own room when I get on stage it's kind of like a chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe it's your time to dream and then I look back in my up ok I just did that you know what's the nightmare scenario right now I think I'm a little nervous about my album coming out yeah your nails aren't sittin well that's because I have underneath oh yes underneath there no one would know if we hadn't told absolutely everybody exactly homeworld knows now so the warrior was yes a warrior definitely with yeah who did I did this yesterday they're hunters they just paint and Britney Spears is not the only one worrying she's just the tycoon at the center of Britney ink which supports hundreds of dancers publicist product designers marketers roadies record executives last year Spears reportedly made 39 points two million dollars that's about a hundred and seven thousand dollars per day so a whole empire can fail if the fans don't follow where she leaves a lot of people make it really nice writing you know that I make it her hometown newspaper once asked will she have the staying power of Madonna or be the first Debbie Gibson of the new millennium I guess [Music] do you like your voice you want to mic levels um I'll be completely rising levels is okay I like the feeling that I get when I sing it's not so much my voice it's a state that I go in when I see that I really like but I would love to have a voice like Christina I would love to have a voice like in the zone is probably the one song that really states from an element doing what I love to do and dancing voluntas and to make it to the next stage she's made her song racier than ever for instance on the new album a song called breathe on me which she tried to tell me is just about breathing [Music] you really mean that's what it's talking about you know I mean I know what it says but one of us wasn't born yesterday do you really think that's all it's not you know well I think it's just to get you in the mood you know like certain songs get you in the mood to feel a certain tension I've searched certain vibe and the girl who always played it close to the line on how much skin she showed posed like this for Esquire magazine consider the line officially crossed what happened to your clothes what I got on cause now I know but what's this about no kidding what is it about what is it about no it's about doing a beautiful picture and about shocking people about shocking you know what inevitable in my skin I think it's an okay thing to expect yourself have you seen bring us out that Kate Hudson she's 22 she's in sheets Jennifer Lopez she poses very provocatively sometimes for Christina Aguilera what's what's the big deal when I do this like to come on you know I don't understand I always think everybody always thought you had a different relationship to young girl everyone now they look back on their life what happened to your sweet image that you used to be and I'm like then when I came out you thought I was too provocative it's like you could never win no matter what you do at the end of the day you can't please everybody you know I'm not here to please hood have you ever gone further than your wish you have gone further no um no something ten yeah okay now those are a little much yeah those are a little much at the end of the shoot I was it alright let's go ahead and do it in the most yet and I didn't have approval over the thing so that's one picture I must say that I felt kind of weird about yeah we should have done a little bit yeah to be honest but hey it's done and I learned from it no matter because my position getting burnt by the fire she lit herself it's so easy in her business her first year with the publicity devil was made even before she can read she was a gymnast turned dancer turned contest star this is rare footage of her singing in a talent competition [Music] ten finalists on Star Search Britney Spears oh my god oh oh my big bow in my hair and something songs have one of those big any voices yeah it was very Broadway can you still do this only I'm thinking they say oh I don't want to sing it I'm gonna like give me one line okay they say I'm crazy god no stage but I don't care dang me or me like I don't care knocking okay thank you my age 11 she's there on The Mickey Mouse Club with another star in Waiting Justin Timberlake fight 15 years old Spears had signed a major deal with Jive Records and the same same factory that turned out the number-one hits of NSYNC [Music] the Backstreet Boys the factory went to work on her and they had a little phone for her to sing but Spears had a bigger idea to sing it as a Catholic schoolgirl in knee socks at a tied-up shirt and now six years later she's still constantly feeding the publicity monster as much as she seeks the attention as she worried that something's being given away at the end of the day if you ever feel you lose something well I think right now I'm trying to find the balance of being open and at the same time having stuff for yourself like where I come from I come from the south and my mom invites people over the fans outside for tea my mama can't do that you know that's how I am at Nate's like that's how I am I'm like an open person you know the people around you to the commissioners leeches so you can't be so open sometimes coming up a house tour and we talk about boyfriends and so much more that's when we return [Music] it's a house tour Britney Spears for for 3.5 million dollar apartment in New York kitchen open and homely if I look into refrigerator would I find cookie dough ice cream hot dogs with cheese and mayo and people who feel kind of a fake and pop type and pop type and pop type take the winding stairs to the penthouse Terrace in the city sprawls at your feet she also has a little piece of real estate she picked up back home in Kentwood Louisiana population 2656 she built a 4.5 million dollar house for her mother who had steered her childhood career it's called serenity Spears also has a brother Brian who lives in New York and a little sister jamie-lynn starved Nickelodeon's all that and what about dad he's a building contractor who chose to stay in the small house where Brittany was raised just 7 miles away from the mansion her mother loved they should call the guys love my house looks so beautiful yeah that was the coolest thing ever but your dad wanted to stay in the old house yes yeah they wanted to and faith eventually separated so they have their own their own life right now we have very different views of you everything at her I mean they love each other so much but I think sometimes you can love somebody but they just cannot live together I don't hurt ya oh you're their child yeah well when I was younger I mean I mean of course you want your family to be able to you know stay together and who knows what could happen eventually they may get theirselves together and come back and then be wonderful which me the ideal things that right now you know that needs to happen does your dad have a lot of opinions about what you do oh yes oh yes oh yes I mean you're not not like disapproving with some things yes like baby okay whatever we what were you wearing Ryan why don't you you know of course my dad does that I'm all Paul Paul your grandpa yeah well why are you her family is to her constant and has been battling cancer has also been there for her as a chaperone on the road there's help too with the money her reported net worth 100 million dollars last year she was rated the number one most powerful celebrity by Forbes magazine and we always hear these cautionary stories of people who made money and they lose them and he said yeah and I have an uncle friend back at home who takes care of my big sum of money in hand last year she gave away a million dollars to charity including her own foundation for inner-city kids to study music and dance but the girl fee formal education ended in the ninth grade carries inside her an old fear but it can still all go away and she'll be back selling crawfish in her grandma's door he said once it would be going back to Louisiana and working with crawfish again and having everything disappear I probably did at one point but it's really weird like I enjoy my life and I love what I do but at the same time even though we didn't have that much then I was really happy like I'm looking back right now just the simplicity of life it was very nice yeah back before she could buy anything she wanted it's really weird because I don't think right now I'm really like I'm not like how I used to dominate the world quarters for freaking clothes but I mean I'm not like that means some kind of a splurge my assistant Felicia she helps me out on that she was like if you want it you just get it I'm like okay I'll get it but there is something about me like that there's a sweater for a thousand dollars I can't buy that like I just there's something in me that you being raised you know a certain way I can't you know do that Arisa stories about buying a hundred thousand dollars of sportswear no I'm not like that at all no is it an addiction is it an addiction no I don't think it's a depiction I think it does put me like it makes me happy you know I'll go and I'll buy a hat and I'll buy some shoes and you know you feel pretty you feel girly I love that feeling but no it's not an addiction everything soon no and in a way it's all part of her job because her influence on young American fashion seismic she buys one new piece of clothing it can set the whole world talking Oh what was I thinking when I was at that's really dreadful at the time oh I thought it was like the coolest outfit in the world you know what I really like that outfit oh and I got that good if Michael Jackson was cool so happy birthday my friend taking a pop she's still an idol with him yeah I definitely I think that he's done I mean I'm you really think of the genius that he is a civilian and Billie Jean all also honey video he'd escaped suppose he were you though just baby over the balcony kind of Michael Jackson well I think I think maybe growing up like such a young age and it's probably affected in from what and maybe it's kind of but I think he's a great person and I heart and I just think maybe he needs me the colony you know you probably need some friends around him to be honest or you know you think all the stuff written the bottom is untrue with little kids I I think that century actually believe that country yeah and what's the picture of you you like the book the first tunnel into the Grammys it was my first time to go through a huge show and I had a high dress on I felt like no in the room I felt really special yeah wait a minute can you rewind that tape am I seeing what I think is probably a moment yet I like that you can pop your nose on my beer popping her knuckle how do you do that enough with the Princess of Pop a year of pain a year that would have to lot of people oh yeah it was a weird [Music] when primetime continues [Music] now boys enough on the song that Britney Spears is the Troubadour of boys of all kind so you wonder who had the dream men in her life right now well see if you can guess which photo she keeps in a solitary picture frame in her living room I know it's when they're talking about uninvited having here I never there continues we shouldn't show that I'm embarrassed okay I smell a little writing it's a secret inside she's still a fan so who are the dream guys now spill bread yes definitely Brad and I Ben Affleck he's cute and I mean Comancheros really cute I think it's refreshing that he doesn't care what people think about him and he says whatever's on his mind are you still friends with him um I mean we talk every once in a while but he's very busy right now he knows because I followed the kissing and the tabloids and are they together or no different they just out for a minute now wearing on any single eye how completely single yeah something about the way you see that completely single because it's a good thing I mean of course you get lonely sometimes but I like I need to I like being by myself right now I think it's good for me so final y'all give me a group hug okay in some way she was a laboratory experiment an insulating power of relentless pain remember no high school or college life to practice dating no anonymity for trial and error and embarrassing choices after the feral frenzy what she's called a regrettable near fling which fred durst have let biscuit race to the airways to boast she's trying to play me out a little bit because she grew bunch of embarrassment that she slept with you and more your bad person he said recently I'm not doing so good with relationship no I'm not it's hard for me to let people in sometimes and she always seems to be paying for her teenage comments that she was going to stay a virgin until marriage almost being between me and that she didn't even drink in the past year a report that she tried serious drugs to the club we have starting with marijuana I've been around people and I've gotten too high off of it and that is enough for me I cannot I can't do that I don't take that you talked about experimenting partying okay no I never they left the impression that the clubs that you tried to experiment it in and parting but never that I could never do something like that I mean I definitely in this initiative people that do that around you 24/7 if so you know you just have to learn who you hang out with and I mean I've I've had a net of sellers and if I'm going to drink and I love red wine right now in red wine and makes me like really mellow and I like but as far as I'm such a control freak I would never be able to do feel do something that makes me feel at ease I mean drinking makes me feel that way sometimes so I can and maybe she has another kind of adolescent rebellion London insulting fans by showing up late to her movie premiere no autographs barely saying hello they reserved in Mexico City four months later a singer for the paparazzi and then five songs and her concerts the last night of her world tour she walked offstage upon a 50,000 fan it was raining and she says it was dangerous we're gonna go out there and we're going to do the Virgin songs or whatever look if it starts to clear but it starts raining again and if it's bad then I'll just stop in the middle of the shed and the deed a documentary shows she and her tour manager are agonizing over what to do backstage it's all irrelevant whether coming down right there nobody's going on and I'll pop Wow her started yelling fraud fraud and it all happened as she's starring as the kind of villain in the tabloid account of supposed jealous arguments and then a horrible breakup with her self-proclaimed first love Justin Timberlake we've had a rough year you had a year that would test a lot of people illness in the family a breakup this Bazin love publicity about what happened in from Mexico to London this pretty rough is um it has kind of weird ah weird how else um oh my goodness hello Oh struggling oh yeah weird some of the first going to break up with Justin did he sell her out on a music video Britney's died of a single he's left the impression that that you were thankful that you betrayed the relationship I wouldn't primetime return breaking up with Justin he has his song she had hers who's telling the truth my weakness caused your pain and your song of sorrow that 4x400 goodness then your goodness afternoon Tamar ABC stations once again Diane Sawyer you have to keep reminding yourself that Britney Spears is only 21 and everything in her life so far has been laid out in public first guy first time and first lesson learned in the bruising business of breaking up [Music] another one of the songs on her new CD it's called every time she wrote it listen to the word [Music] you [Music] my weakness caused you pain and this song I sorry how's that for was that for and oh goodness goodness goodness and I think I learnt the song to speak for itself okay you could drop me I have to ask a couple of things about Justin okay of course he's gone on television and pretty much said you broke his heart you did something that caused him so much pain so much suffering what did you do Hey I was a play I was upset for a while with us I think we're both very young and it was kind of waiting to happen and I will always love to always have a special place in my head he is such a great person but you said I've only slept with one person in my whole life two years into my relationship with Justin and yet he has looked the impression that that you weren't faithful you betrayed the relationship I think everyone has a saboteur story and to make them feel a certain way and make them feel you know and I'm not technically saying he's wrong but I'm not technically saying he's right either so I was it feels really awkward and Timberlake has made a kind of sport out of public retaliation on a popular morning Drive radio show in New York promoting his album he has a kind of gleeful confession about their very private life this book I want show Justin Timberlake is in the house and I just want to ask you one question did you Britney Spears yes enough oh man come on okay I did it no really weird time so I was like talk about her what we did together and really funny shows actually stuff and I just felt very exploited and very weird but like why is he going on the show's not asking them and he's talking you know but I'm sure like you know just like right now you're asking me about it and I'm talking about it and just kind of comes out and there's more she says Timberlake called her excessively to catch up but then flipped in the fact that her look-alike would be starring in his new video Crimea River she says she couldn't think that's enough to object you don't already know I was stunned to see a kind of recreation of their breakup when did you see it for the first time the video I thought I was on vacation and someone called me and told me that it was going to come on and I watched it I was like I was kind of in denial I go in this whole denial phase or whatever but it's fine that's the way he I don't want to judge him or anything like I suggest what he had to deal with what happens and you know and that's fine but I just I know that fathers are in a relationship and something happened I just I couldn't really go there I don't know the call he made about Crimea River what lesson do you learn from that I get to very look out for yourself still look out for yourself if you were talking to your sister now and the girl who said that she was going to stay a virgin till she got married do you still think there's something to be said for that I think honestly if you can wait till you're married I think you should definitely do that because it's so much more sacred and there is a reason for saying to do that there is a rule in the book the Bible that says that I think that is a really important thing to do but I think in reality if you really know in your hearts apart that you are going to be with that person forever and you really think that with all of your heart and you're in four or five years in there to the relationship and stuff can happen you know I mean I you don't go around sleeping around with people but I mean I really thought that I was going to be with him for the rest of my life I did and but but telling my sister Alice you know I can't I couldn't give her unconditional love and to trust her I think when you doubt people and certainly Madhu the wrong things you're too preachy with and that's when they run the Middle Belt I trust that she'll do the right thing she's a good girl she's very smart girl she has good instincts about people so how soon five years would you like to have a guy tell you know in a dream now that would be car you're thinking you'll wait till you're 30 I don't want to wait order you know no I would love to have a family that was that would be when I'm the most content the kids and just I mean that's they become her life it's not all about you anymore and you have a focus at so beautiful you not the other woman a woman yeah so like I'm a lot older than women who lies Island I feel from five years ago definitely you [Music] we from making music to making out with Madonna how far is too far when you have all those like you really let go and we really did it wouldn't primetime continued with Madonna as her model Britney Spears has upset a lot of mothers in this country starting with the wife of the governor of Maryland who appeared at an anti violence rally and listen to what she said really if I had an opportunity to shoot Britney Spears I think I would oh that's horrible that's really bad because of the example for kids and how hard it is to be parent and keep all of this away from your kids well that's really sad like she said that do you know what like I'm not here to you know babysit her case later the governor's wife had to retract her statement because of a public outcry about her reference to gun it is true that kid made Britney Spears and then she remade them in her image and then in the past two years that image has taken a highly explicit turn as she searched for a new edge we wondered does she care what her old fan those kids think for instance about this you win so here's the definitive for the last time ever Madonna kiss okay so she said that she had this idea for a little peck and then you gave her a real kiss is this the way it happened well I guess it was her idea we were in rehearsals and um just like look maybe we should kiss I'm like okay all right and we never really did it in rehearsal when we um actually got on stage and we did it it's like when you have all those life you really let go and we really did it [Music] because there's no tongue action here so of course there was no tongue no let me like it looked like there was well that's you know we're good actresses here yeah you know what we're doing how could it be how you say that because if our mouths were a little open like that and it was like but I didn't know there was no tongue hmm I couldn't I mean I know those two ladies don't really give a damn what I say but I think if they're as possible in a way that Midler we used to push a few envelopes herself it's kind of tacky in a way because to say that I'm not responsible for the fact that there's you know 11 year old ten eleven year old watching this show I mean I'm you know I can't help that and if the parents don't like them to see it and change the channel so all right he knows I'm not perfect I make mistakes every day honey I know but I want to be a good person for me but I think it's a huge pressure to think that you have to take the responsibility to be this role model it's one thing not to want to be the role model anymore it's another thing not to know that a lot of young girls are looking at this a lot of them but am I responsible for them the only person I do worry about and that I won't be a good person for I think is my response was my sister okay did you say something to her about the Mazama thing is it a lesbian chic thing beforehand I get caught and say look I'm going to performance and I'm going to be you know kissing Madonna but she thinks of it as you know as a performance she doesn't take it literally it's classic Britney the magazine said a kind of puzzle under all those shifting images playing innocent and then playing the shock for all its work so is it as far as you're going to go because I really read once you said I'm not going to do that Madonna thing and try to shock everybody Never Say Never huh well I didn't think of it at the time but it was really um what I meant by that that's my way I guess of jacking people but with her sex book and stuff like that I didn't think that would be something that I would go towards but like I said never say never comics going to bite me in the ass that she volunteers to me that I don't even know about another song on the new album a film about well I think I let her tell you I have one song called touch of my hand it's talking about you look yourself it's a little much but it's a reality that we have and yeah okay they're going to have a first way said you know I'm not that innocent or are you that innocent I think they all have sides to us I think that um yes I can't relate to that film and like we all can you'd be lying if you said you couldn't look there is it um I mean it's nothing to me openly talk about a lot of people something sacred and something I wanted to write about sacred hello this long past touch of my hand petit matin dodging it yourself and that's a group it is sacred to me that in a way explaining it oh okay I'm consider myself right now I'm just going to lean back here and what's the question again so I don't really I don't either okay millions have seen it but she doesn't like it you don't like the famous bottom the world-famous the real famous bottle don't win primetime continued [Music] and so Britney Spears new album is getting ready to hit the stands and Britney Spears the entertainment athlete is about to go into her own Olympic training to hit the stage [Music] even the critics of Spears singing stand in awe of the entertainment machine the spectacle precision dancing remember as a child she was actually training to be an Olympic gymnast when lured away by the stage and she can keep up with the best of them the Jackson's Michael and Janet in sync and the drill team boy band and flip stars wouldn't dare try to keep up with their dazzling professional backup dancers but fierce is right there matching the move for move she's been rumored to stay in shape by doing hundreds of sit-ups a day I don't feel completely like the best shape right now you know but I'm not really self-conscious about it I know that I can better myself and be and being yeah being better shape okay and you're at the famous add the half oh you're not working room all the time and once I start tour I'll start you know and then will she have the perfect body not to her and you don't like you don't like the famous bottom the world-famous the world-famous bottle - don't say that oh that's a very nice girl but um I have my brother to always put me in check with that he's like 24/7 he's like Britney you know you're I need to lose some weight and there's that other critics the one from the health police [Music] come over here like I saw Cindy Shelley at Madonna is going to get your stop smoking and you asked me not to smoke you lecture her but my palm yeah I pretty much lecture everybody that has a cigarette hanging out of their mouths not to smoke okay this thing I am cutting that I have a tour to do and I'm cutting back on the [ __ ] because there's no way in hell I can be on stage and perform the way I want to she said to me she's watching I'm is that her hand on hip I know she's watching she's totally watching she hears me it really scares me too I'm like okay thanks she's so funny knighting I love her that she's okay and it will take a lot of aerobic stamina to dance her way through big numbers like me against the music she's doing it here on Saturday Night Live but this performance had everyone raising an old accusation was she lip-synching to recordings she says she was singing live but admit there was help sometimes when you're on stage and you're performing there's a combined mix with you on the track and that awkward from somewhere you really let go and you do sing that there are but background vocals that's basically the track during the course we're going to help you out if you call that tracks if it's not really technically let's focus because your voice is not on that your mother is on that but it's the background singers helping me and I think that's what makes people think that it's missing key but she was clearly out there all on her own in another Saturday Night Live memorable moment she proved herself a natural comedian playing a hilarious girl from the hood I mean I told her to step off and she was like what and I was I know you don't as soon as I Hans I are on so tonight the global industry that is Brittany is poised on the brink of the next her video with Madonna is already the most requested video on MTV's Total Request Live but she's talking about more war movies TV shows and how she wants to dance her way through another decade and you see the rest of the career ultimately I would love to be able to reinvent myself do more albums do musicals you only wonder if a girl whose life has been show business can also have a life of her own people like Plato and the diner they give me hope the fact that they had their families at them and they can balance the whole thing and you know I think that's inspiring so accept that your albums are like Diaries in your life so what's the leap sentence but how would you start the diary entry for your life right now a diary interest in my life well um I'm here to inspire people through my music and take people on journeys and Mesnick let them feel stuff Laurie I feel like I'm just beginning and all the change and everything is I kind of surreal and new and so it feels like beginning phases [Music] Oh so that's it for us tonight but you can see more britney spears on ABC at the American Music Awards on November 16th and on her own special the next night Charlie and I'll see you tomorrow morning on Good Morning America until then we wish you a good night [Music]