No wonder she was such a mess
It was pretty obvious to anyone with eyes and ears that Britney did everything herself for last week’s interview with Matt Lauer. There’s no other way she could have looked so messy and sounded like such an idiot. And judging from what the New York Post reported, it sounds like she refused her publicists’ and stylist’s help with the interview because she wanted to “make her own decisions.”
“Dateline” staffers were shocked when they showed up with Matt Lauer to interview Spears last week and found the pop star alone in her Malibu manse. “Neither of her publicists, Leslie Sloane Zelnick or Nanci Ryder, showed up,” said our source. Spears insisted on doing her own hair and makeup - a regrettable decision. Web sites derided her hair as a “rat’s nest” and, when she started crying during the interview, one of her fake eyelashes fell off. “When [the NBC crew] got there, they thought they had the wrong day . . . During the interview, no one was there to rein things in,” we’re told. Spears, when asked about Kevin Federline being with a pregnant Shar Jackson when they first met, shot back, “Julia Roberts‘ husband had a pregnant wife when he hooked up with Julia, but no one ever talked about that!” Spears wore flip-flops, a see-through tank and micro-mini jeans. Reps tried to control the damage on Friday. “They asked NBC not to release footage to places like E!,” said a source. Asked why Spears was on her own for the interview, Sloane Zelnick said, “Britney is a grown-up and makes her own decisions.”
Um, if there’s one thing that interview made crystal clear, it’s that she’s not capable of making smart decisions when left to her own devices. Grown-up, my ass! This girl is going through a rebellious stage (about 10 years too late) where nobody can tell her what to do, and she’s not going to listen to anyone because she thinks she knows better than everyone, including professional publicists and stylists.
She probably still stomps off to her room, slams the door, screams “I hate you!” and turns up ‘N Sync real loud to show her mom how pissed she is that she wasn’t allowed to go to the mall with all her other friends.
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