Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Oh that poor, stupid girl...

You know it comes to something when I'm expressing sympathy for Britney Spears. Undeniably, the most part of her troubles are her own damn fault. But it seems over the last little while that people have been queueing up to take their shots, it seems she may be being treated overly harshly by a judge with one eye on fame, and all the while, the tabloids gloat.

I've always kind of held the theory that Britney was so desperate for children that she persuaded herself that she was in love. Either that, or she knew fine well what she was doing, and did it anyway. Either way, to now lose her children, on top of everything else, seems extremely cruel. And, I'm not entirely sure the children can be said to be better off...

Oh well. It would be hypocritical of me to offer too much sympathy.

However, since everyone else seems keen to queue up to give Britney advice on how she should get it all back, here goes:

Don't.

What Britney really needs to do, in my opinion, is simply turn her back on the entirety of her career, and her party-girl lifestyle, and her battle with the tabloids. She needs to stop thinking about a comeback, and instead check herself into a real rehab course, that she needs to treat with all seriousness, and needs to finish, no matter how much it hurts. She needs to stop drinking, and stop taking whatever drugs she is on. She needs to make peace with her mother, clean up her life, take stock... and then take back her children.

And only then, probably in no less than two years, can she consider trying to make a comeback.

Unfortunately, I fear this isn't how this is all going to play out. I hope she's not being left alone for any length of time...

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