You guys, welcome to episode 111 of the Smushroom, the podcast of Deep Dives on the

well-known, more importantly, not so well-known hookups of your favorite reality TV stars. It's me, Troy McClure. You may

remember me from such episodes as Brittany and Justin Part 1. And here we are at Part 2. The

Better Half, if you ask me.

We're going to be talking today about very extensively about a little lady that means a whole lot to me named Brittany Jean Spears.

And I am very, very, very excited. I told you guys we're doing something experimental. Let me just reiterate just in case

This is confusing. I'm breaking this episode down into three parts because there's way too much

information to go into one episode or even two. So next week I'm gonna

basically devote the entire hour to the highs and lows of Brittany and Justin's relationship.

This week I really wanted to give some backstory and go into Brittany's childhood.

I wanted to talk about her dad, I want to talk about her mom, I want to talk about her dad I want to talk about how abusive her

household was and how poor they were and really specifically that like

1998 1999 really specifically that like 1998

like sort of sweet spot right after her getting discovered and

going straight into like a Shirley temple, you know, like just really fucking intense situation.

And specifically I really wanted to talk about this today because I feel like there's a lot of misinformation being thrown around in reference to Brittany.

There are a lot of people, I've been saying this a lot recently, but there's a lot of people with a lot of opinions

about what's happening with her that don't really know what they're talking about

because you know the free Brittany hashtag just sort of like caught their eye

and all of a sudden

they're interested in the mental health of this girl that has been struggling for

over 20 years. So even though this episode is going to be super dark, I can just tell you that right now.

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