A couple of months ago, there were rumors swirling that Britney may be on the cover of Rolling Stone again, and the issue officially hits newsstands this week. The article has more stories about Britney's dizzying downward spiral, including a mall visit gone bad, plastic surgery rumors, and juicy details on her relationship with Justin. So far, the magazine has only released a teaser excerpt, which is just another upsetting story about an outburst Britney had while trying on clothes at Betsey Johnson. Here's more:
. . . she ducks into the dressing room with Ghalib. He emerges with her black Am Ex. The card won't go through, but they keep trying it. "Please," begs Ghalib, "get this done quickly." One of the girls runs to Britney's dressing room, explaining the situation through a pink gauze curtain.
A wail emerges from the cubby — guttural, vile, the kind of base animalistic shriek only heard at a family member's deathbed. "F*ck these b*tches," screams Britney, each word ringing out between sobs. "These idiots can't do anything right!"
Ghalib dashes over to console her, but she's already spitting, growling, throwing a big bottle of soda on the floor so that it begins to spill underneath the curtain, and then she's got a box of tissues and is throwing them on top of the wet floor along with piles of discarded merchandise. A new card finally goes through, but by then Britney is out the door, leaving her shirt on the ground and replacing it with the red top. "F*ck you, f*ck people, f*ck, f*ck, f*ck," she keeps screaming, her face splotchy and red as she crosses the interminable mall floor, the crowd behind her growing larger and larger. "Leave us alone!" yells Ghalib.
To see more from the excerpt and what Britney had to say to her father while in the hospital, just read more
The siblings run after Britney to get a video to put up on YouTube, and some of the shopgirls run after her to hand off the merchandise she left behind, and there's an entire bridal party wearing yellow T-shirts who have pulled out camera phones too. A crush of managers in black shirts and gold name tags try to keep the peace, but the crowd running after Britney gets larger, and now the shopgirls have started to catch up to her, one of them slipping spectacularly in her platform shoes, grazing her elbow. She pulls herself up, mustering the strength to tap Britney's shoulder. "Um, I'm from the South too," she mumbles, "and I was wondering if I could get a picture with you for my little sister."
Britney turns to Ghalib and grabs his arm. "I don't want her talking to me!" she screams. She whirls around and stares the girl deep in the eyes, her lips almost vibrating with anger. "I don't know who you think I am, b*tch," she snarls, "but I'm not that person."
While we've heard all of these stories about Britney before, somehow it's still heartbreaking to think about what the pop star's life has turned out to be. As more horrifying stories about what's been happening to Britney come to the light, Britney herself just wants to get out of the hospital. When her father, Jamie, visited Britney in the hospital, she begged him to let her leave, saying, "Come on, daddy, let's get out of here. Take my hand and let's walk out of here together." Let's just hope that when that does finally happen, we'll be seeing a different Britney than the one we've sadly grown used to hearing about.

















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1This is so SAD! I really hope her parents can get her so REAL help!
2On the Cover of Rolling Stone. Then they are not the same magazine I used to know where it was an honor to be there.
3I would hardly call her an American Tragedy!
4ok crazy
5Wow, I'm sorry to say but I thought that Rolling Stone had a little more class than to kick a person when they were already down. Why the h*ll can't these rags (and I normally wouldn't have considered Rolling Stone a RAG) leave someone who is in serious need of privacy alone? I understand that the train wreck that is Brit is a fascination, but comeon people have some respect!
6I'm not a Britney fan but I never thought the girl dancing with the snake at the MTV awards would end up like this.
CALLING TOM CRUISE (he can save anyone, right?)
7I think everything that has happened to her and the direction her life has taken is so sad. I know many people think she has chosen this, but if I was in the spotlight the way she is, I'd probably end up losing my grip on reality too. I really hope that her parents getting involved now will help her turn it around.
8I cannot wait to get my hands on this mag...
9desertbanshee, i hear you, girlfriend. Rolling Stone used to be an amazing magazine and had some unforgettable covers. Now it's just crap.
10Wow, crazy...
11So NOT an American tragedy...JFK, RFK, MLK Jr getting assisinated, the war and 4,000 dead Americans and 25K wounded, those are American tragedies. This is an unfortuante story of a girl who just couldn't handle herself...sad, but come on Rolling Stone, a little perspective is needed.
12i'm with you blob. never thought this girl would hit rock bottom over and over again this hard. she seems to fall deeper every day. while i still think she's a total moron, my sympathy is falling more her direction every day. she's a complete wreck.
13"An American Tradgedy"? Right, because there aren't 18-year-old Marines dying in Iraq right now and millions of children and families living below the poverty line and people being denied the right to afforadable health care...
RS used to be relevant. Now it's just lame.
14somehow it's still heartbreaking
"hearbreaking" isn't really the word I would use here. This just sounds like the same despicable person that assumed that I've always categorized her as. No she isn't "that person"...since "that person" was created in a boardroom...I don't care, I'm sticking by the guns and saying what I've always been saying...Britney Spears...SHE BLOWS!!!
15Im with SpicyMe on the amer. tragedy
her black am ex wouldn't work? are you kidding me?
16I guess Rollingstone is exploiting celebs now. they used to do covers when an artist had a new album or an artist was coming to them with something. The fact that they even included that expert was messed up. Maybe Sam had her all drugged up that day. Who on earth is trying to get pics of Brit for their little sister,lol. Why would the little sister know who Britney is, she isn't Hanna Montana,lol. If this was 1999 I'd believe that story a little more.
17"American Tragedy"...please...in the REAL WORLD, this "tragedy" couldn't stand on the two brown boots it's worn to DEATH!!!
18How can someone say this is not an American tradgey? Our culture does not only take political victims. American cosumer-culture has sexualized this woman from the time she was a child. She was thrust in the spotlight to an extent that arguably no other person that age has been in American popular culture. The American media - and we the public they consume it - have helped push this woman over the edge of mental illness. The constant scrutiny, speculation, gossping, and criticism continue as her mind and soul deteriorate. Britney may or may not have suffered this mental illness had she not been famous. But the fact that her personal collapse is still media fodder is an American tragedy.
19Well since America killed most of those people it is an american tragedy, now we're going to kill our own popstars. Sad but true. Britney isn't an AMerican Tragedy in the vein that those politicians and activists were, but she is a representative of the American psyche of our Culture so to speak, she is American and she is a Mess. but yes I agree Rolling Stone just wasted a cover and an issue.
20ANYWAYZ!!! THERE IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT TRAGEDIES IN THIS WORLD THAT IS HAPPENING. I'M SO SICK OF HEARING ABOUT HER. SHE'S JUST A SPOILED BRAT WHO COULDN'T DEAL WITH HER SH*T. GET OVER IT BRIT!
*SOO ANNOYED*
21Anybody remember Dr. Hook - Back in the day when it was Rolling Stone not Rolling Lame?
Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone
Wanna see my picture on the cover
Rolling Stone
Wanna buy five copies for my mother
Rolling Stone
Wanna see my smilin' face
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
I've got a freaky old lady name o' _ocaine Katy
Who embroiders on my jeans
I've got my poor old gray-haired Daddy
Drivin' my limousine
Now it's all designed to blow our minds
But our minds won't really be blown
Like the blow that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone
We got a lot of little teenage blue-eyed groupies
22Who do anything we say
We got a genuine Indian guru
He's teachin' us a better way
We got all the friends that money can buy
So we never have to be alone
And we keep gettin' richer but we can't get our picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone...
It's so sad, I hope that she gets the help she needs soon and she can get her life back together.
23Im saying those political assasinations were American Tragedies, not that Britney is( just in case anyone reads it that way), but she is an American mess and who's fault that is, Im not sure. It isn't ours, but our Culture built the opportunities that she had from the get go, our culture can pluck kids from obscurity and thrust them into adult situations, fortune and fame, crazy. I wonder what Hannah Montana will be like in 10 years( Im in no way shape or form taking any blame away from britney's parents,people or her own personal decisions).
24I am interested in reading it, but I agree that "An American Tragedy" doesn't quite sum it up. Try all the troops that have died so far in this war ALONE.
25lmfao tia, worn out STINKY boots
26I think that labeling it as an American Tragedy is completely stretching the situation. But I do feel that these role models for children out there such as LL, Jamie Lynn, and BS are setting up a bad representation for these young minds. I also feel that the media gives too much coverage on horrible situations thus making people think that it okay.
27they are saying she's an American Tragedy because she started out squeaky clean on the Mickey Mouse club, she achieved something that all kids wanted to do at the time. She was discovered and every one in the world knew her name. She had everything at her fingertips and she lost it all in a hard way. She is an American Tragedy, maybe not in the same way as other people who are also tragedies, but a tragedy just the same.
28an American Tragedy would be if hse died and last time I checked she's still breathing.
29It's like calling Michael Jackson an American Tragedy or Mike Tyson come on now. A tragedy is something that is beyond someone's control an assassination, a plane crash, a death that could have been prevented, the loss of assets by people due to fraud but not someone who contributed to her own demise due to her own actions.
30This just goes to show that there is no patient confidentiality in hospitals, where else are all these leaks coming from. Her conversations with her dad are sad and should be kept private.
31It's sad for any soldier to die in any War. But...it's a chance they took when they signed up for the military. Everyone who signs up knows somewhere there is a possibility of war.
Who thinks when your kid takes dance lessons and auditions for a Disney show that it will spiral out of control and she end up committed on a mental ward?
32Micheal Jackson and Mike Tyson? Umm Ok. Both of these people physically hurt other people over and over. Britney hurt herself.
33The very reason I cancelled my Rolling Stone subscription.
34if she is being given anti-psychotics by that freak, that is why she is responding the way she is.
i think it's tragic that anyones daughter was tricked into taking drugs, that 2 boys are w/o their mother, that someone who was on top of the world is now in a padded cell.
britney was "living the dream" with a singing career, famous friends, youth, money, family, always smiling and never a bad thing to say about anyone. she has now been committed to a psych ward because she poses a danger to herself. however she got where she is, and she must take responsibility for her choices, her fall is nothing short of tragic. if she were your family member i doubt you'd describe the situation as anything else.
35Thanks, Pink
I would have even rather they said "Media Tragedy". Because actually it's the media culture, not American culture, that has forced the American people to watch the actions of Britney Spears. The media has completely changed from a relatively honorable thing, into this gossip-monger. I'm not sure how Americans and the world at large can take our media back, but boy...the revolution needs to start NOW!!!
36I continually find it shocking how callous and cold people can be on these message boards. I bet if it was one of your family members going through something like this you would find it pretty tragic. I am not pretending to know Britney or have any connection to her. I DO have the quality of being able to empathize with other human beings, however. Apparently many people on this site lack that capability and cannot fathom how much pain she or her family must be in. Fame and money don't take away people's humanity.
37Since it's Rolling Stone, I wonder what Hunter S. Thompson would have had to say about all of this?
38Umm while a part of me feels sorry for her the other part of me is like what did she expect would happen when she dumped her family out of her brought in the Alli Sims of the world who were all yes men, dated and married losers, brought in strange and clearly dangerous not only into her sons' lives but her life and let the paparazzi have access to almost every facet of her life. Note she's the one who chased after the paps, she's the one who decided to bring Osama and Adnan into her life, she only started getting drugged after she brought Osama into her life so we can say to a certain extent these problems she has right now are largely due to her own misguided actions. other tween stars have stayed grounded what's her problem, clearly the bi-polar excuse went out the window with the revelations yesterday so she wasn't mentally il whne she was dong all this.
39OK I used to make fun of Britney but now I'm really starting to feel bad for her. And what is with all the haters?
You know it's sick to look back at the old pics of Britney--especially her first Rolling Stone cover--and see how she was exploited and sexualized so early. She's been used by record and marketing execs trying to make a buck off her. She learned what people really wanted from her and did what they wanted, and now she doesn't know how to be an independent, normal person.
40I think "tragedy" is the wrong word, but it is amazing to see how on-top-of-the-world she once was, and how bad things are for her now.
Britney Spears is not an "American Tragedy". Britney is just another mental case with a lot of money.
We have an adolescent president, a war going on, children and the elderly with NO medical insurance and dying because they cannot recieve proper or ANY treatment at all.
But Britney not being able to use her Black American Express card in the store - so therefore she has a mental fit about it, is a tragedy.....IT IS NOT A TRAGEDY Rolling Stone Magazine!
Get your priorities back in line Rolling Stone.
41While I tend to be on the fence these days as whether it's heartbreaking or isn't, the little excerpt in RS makes it sound far more like she's a spoiled rotten brat who freaks out over nothing.. so simply based on the fact that their story isn't supporting their cover is ridiculous on their part. Their going for shocking dirt, rather than pointing out what makes it a tragedy.. perhaps it will come together better in the article (not that I will be reading it), but it seems pretty classless to me.
And did anyone else notice what else was on the cover? Brittney is their american tragedy and Heath Ledger is a little sidenote.. not that he would have wanted to be exploited on the cover, but a little perspective people. Would have been better to leave him off completely in my opinion.
42mmm Hunter S. Thomspson another tragic death. but I have theories on that and I wont post them here,lol, but Britney was arguably one of the biggest teen popstars of the 20th century i guess that's why the media is so obsessed with her, but they are so invasive they seem to exacerbate situations.
43I agree with Nyar, if you folks on here can consider Britney Spears an American Tragedy, well then why NOT Michael Jackson. He was further on top of the world than Britney Spears was when he was 9 years old...that is a child that NEVER, EVER, EVER had a childhood. We watched a man that was so uncomfortable with his physical appearance literally CHANGE himself over the best 7 decades...Just because what he allegedly did hurt others, shouldn't make his down fall any less "tragic"!!!
PS: I don't consider Michael Jackson an "American" tragedy either, more a tragedy of an abusive home life, lack of a real childhood, and again, media blitzing!!!
44the media loves "the tragic blond".
45How sad, terrible, and pathetic.
I never could've foreseen her life turning out this way. I hope she can get help. This has gone above and beyond pop star rebellion.
46To piggyback on Nyrina Windu,
You want to know an American tragedy...it's when a child dies from the effects of a tooth abscess. When the bureaucratic system of public health assistance is so STUCK on paperwork, that a child doesn't receive what many of us take for granted, a descent dental checkup. That what could have easily been the extraction of a rotten "molar" could have prevented an infection that lead to brain damage. THAT IS an American Tragedy...not the Britney Spears being splashed all over the news, but stories like these being swept under the rug!!!
47I hardly think Britney brought mental illness on herself. It's not like she woke up one day and said, "I'm bored. I'm going to deliberately lost my mind, trash my career, lose my sons, and end up in a padded cell ranting and raving." Not that she'll ever win any parenting awards but at least Lynne Spears isn't make a reality show of the disaster that has become her daughter's life (ahem, that'd be you White Oprah).
48I think that maybe, just maybe, the tabloids and gossip sites could leave her alone for JUST a little while since she is actually getting help???
49I was all over bashing her and her sinful ways a while ago. I still don't agree with the crap she pulls. but i think there is more to all of this than meets the eye.
Maybe we should try RESPECTING her privacy and stop tearing her apart for a bit. See if she makes it out of all this. She is obviously not doing all this to be a bi***. She really has something wrong and needs serious help. And is trying to get it.
American Tragedy is being used as in the book by Theodore Dreiser. Much as hate RS, I doubt they are comparing Britney's downfall to starving children dying. Please peeps. IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH!
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