Stress from the tour and other commitments, including promoting her movie Camp Rock 2, led to an eating disorder and a dependency on drugs and alcohol - she had also broken up with her tourmate Joe Jonas, who had taken up a new girlfriend, Ashley Greene. OctoDemi Lovato deletes her Twitter account and enters rehab after suffering a nervous breakdown on the Jonas Brothers tour. SeptemWhen Green Day's set is cut short at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong flies off the handle, stopping the show and going into a rant where he says, "I'm not f-king Justin Bieber, you motherf-kers. NovemAt the Sacramento stop on his Saint Pablo Tour, Kanye West does three songs, delivers a 17-minute monologue, and leaves the stage. She fired her long-time manager and derided his decision to send her into rehab, claiming that it was "actually normal for a young girl to go out after a huge divorce.DecemTaking the stage in Times Square to ring in the new year, Mariah Carey gets through " Auld Lang Syne" but then stops singing and narrates the technical problems to the crowd as the backing track plays on. Federline.īut if these were cries for help, Ms. Hilton and being regularly photographed exiting cars without underwear.Īt this point, the former Mouseketeer began to quickly spiral out of control, checking in and out of rehab centres and publicly shaving her head, reportedly to avoid drug traces in her hair being used against her in a custody dispute with Mr. The glee with which the public celebrated the end of her marriage was soon displaced by shock, as the newly single mother returned to the party scene with a vengeance, befriending Ms. 12, 2006, nearly a year after his brother's birth, and dumped the boys' father Nov. Spears gave birth to Jayden James on Sept. It was meant to be a turning point, the moment when a star realizes how low she has sunk and begins the triumphant path to redemption. Spears's dishevelled look was a far cry from the highly stylized, hyper-sexualized image she had cultivated as a teen pop sensation. Chewing gum, her eyeliner smudged with tears, Ms. 18 wedding were snatched up in a tabloid feeding frenzy.īut it was her physical appearance on the show that raised the most eyebrows. Federline's main appeal to the star may have been his ability to ignore her.īut the public's ability to turn a blind eye to Britney evaporated when she proposed to him in June, and photographs of the couple heading to the clubs after their Sept. The couple's romance was documented in a reality show calledĬhaotic, which suggested that Mr. Federline's negative influence on the fallen ingenue was soon a hot topic, as she was photographed walking into public bathrooms without shoes on and flipping off omnipresent photographers. Federline, a backup dancer, in April of 2004, when his then-girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson, was pregnant with their second child. Spears married a high school sweetheart in Las Vegas, only to have the union quickly annulled. Whatever the cause, the signs of trouble began four years ago, when Ms. Her troubling behaviour has been chalked up to bipolar disorder, drug abuse, postpartum depression and intense narcissism brought about by childhood abuse. She has been nicknamed Unfitney, her life described as Warholian and her image grouped with those of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan under the category "girls gone wild." Whatever your taste in music or news, it is difficult not to wonder why those who know her - from family members, staff, doctors and lawyers, to her management, fans and even her casual observers - have allowed her life to essentially become one long snuff video.Įvocations of Diana, Princess of Wales, and Anna Nicole Smith are regularly made, as she is crassly dismissed as yet another young woman whose death by paparazzi is inevitable. But at the centre of the celebrity storm is clearly a very sick young woman whose self-destruction has become an international spectator sport, and whose once promising career as an entertainer has been forgotten in a haze of crotch-shots and court documents. To some, this is just another episode in a Hollywood soap opera created by tabloids and fed by Internet gossip sites and declining public taste.
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