By Samir Suri, Sharon May, Deirdre Durkan-Symonds and Adam Levy at Dailymail.com
08:24 30 Sep 2023, updated 11:02 30 Sep 2023
Britney Spears cuddled up to her manager and best friend Cade Hudson in a new Instagram album she posted Friday night.
In one of the photos, Cade, a gay man, can be seen leaning towards Britney, 41, as if about to kiss her on the cheek.
In the long, loose caption, Britney casually mentioned her ongoing divorce from third husband Sam Asghari.
She also touched on the challenges of writing her upcoming memoir, The Woman in Me, the title of which is believed to be a reference to her song “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman.”
However, she maintained a decidedly cheerful attitude throughout her post, shouting: “I’m in such a beautiful place!!! I am so lucky to have wonderful friends!!! Positive affirmations are important to me now!!!”
Britney added: “I’m saying this because I’m going through a divorce and having to put my past into a book was… let’s just say, challenging!!! I’m just saying!!! But I’m learning to breathe one day!!! Self-love is incredibly important!!! I woke up and just cried because it was nice to be in such a beautiful place!!!’
She reflected: “Then I thought about my relationship between my life and Instagram at the moment!!! Let’s figure this out!!! It’s addictive… but in my personal opinion, the point where you start taking yourself too seriously is when people leave!!!’
The Work B**** hitmaker said: “Hey I won’t promote FaceTune for the rest of my life but seriously when I have my down days I look and see new apps and it makes me feel stupid!!! I was like: wow, this is cool!!! I see things more clearly and know what if they can be improved!!!’
She added pointedly: “I’m just trying to understand people who say they’re not in it!!! And for some reason they are completely defensive, making accusations and downplaying it, saying that all the photos are fake and all retouched!!! Nothing is real… honestly, who cares!!!”
Britney wrote: “If you are so authoritative and perfect, why should you even care if someone is experimenting with apps on their phone??? Why even mention this??? If you are so much better than this??? Notes??? Come on!!! I love my best friend!!!’
Her latest Instagram update comes a day after she uploaded another video of herself dancing with kitchen knives on the social media platform.
In the caption of her Instagram post, the 41-year-old pop singer reiterated that the sharp blades were fake and said her team rented them from the Hand Prop Room studio in Los Angeles.
Earlier this week she sparked concern after sharing a disturbing video of herself doing a dizzying dance with knives.
“I know I scared everyone with my last post,” she wrote, referring to concerns expressed by her many fans. “But these are fake knives that my team rented from Hand Prop in Los Angeles. These are not real knives.
Regarding how authorities visited her home earlier in the day for a welfare check, she stated that “no one should worry or call the police.”
She once again assured her 42.1 million followers that she was “trying to emulate one of my favorite artists.”
She copied Shakira’s knife dance at the MTV Video Music Awards in September, which she said was “the performance that inspired me.”
The Toxic hitmaker then added: “Shout out to us bad girls who aren’t afraid to push boundaries and take risks.”
In the video, she could be seen wearing a white crop top with long puffy sleeves and hot pink bikini bottoms.
She had honey blonde beach waves styled in a half up, half down messy updo.
She wore a black necklace and danced barefoot in the hallway of her mansion.
She did not appear to have a cut on her leg or a bandage on her arm, as was previously seen in the deleted video after her first knife dance.
In the video, she runs knives over her body and twirls them, tapping them to the beat of the music.
Earlier on Thursday she He reportedly received a check from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies allegedly visited her $7.4 million mansion, which she previously shared with her ex-husband Sam Asghari, “to make sure she was safe.”
A source told TMZ that law enforcement conducted a safety and health check “out of an abundance of caution.”
The insider added that the mother of two spoke to deputies, who concluded she was “fine.”
Their visit was prompted by “several” calls to police over a disturbing Instagram video she shared of her dancing in her kitchen while holding knives.
Shortly after her series of knife dances, Spears took to her Instagram to share another choreography clip.
In the caption, she mentioned knives and stated that she was “copying Shakira.”
Earlier this week, Spears told her fans on her Instagram that the knives in the caption weren’t real, despite fans insisting they heard the “clanging” of the knives as she danced.
“Today I started playing with knives in the kitchen. Don’t worry, these are NOT real knives!!! Halloween is coming,” she said.
In her latest video, posted Tuesday night, she performed her choreographed scene without a knife.
Britney captioned it: “Don’t mind the knives, I’m copying Shakira.”
Back in January, police conducted a welfare check on the singer after she caused concern by deleting Instagram for the seventh time in less than a year.
Officers were then dispatched to the Toxic singer’s Thousand Oaks home and determined there was “no reason to believe she was in danger.”
Spears reportedly had a “fascination with knives,” TMZ reported in May, adding that the singer slept “with one under her bed” while in fear of being “institutionalized.”
A year and a half into the end of her 13-year conservatorship, which Spears previously described as “abusive” in her bombshell courtroom testimony, a source claims the pop star remains “deathly afraid” that “someone will step in the middle.” . night, tie her to a gurney and take her to a psychiatric hospital.”
The site claims that after regaining control of her personal and financial affairs in 2021, those caring for the mother of two “prepared a list of recommendations” for Spears that included keeping her away from guns and “not driving alone.”
The singer, who revealed in 2021 that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, is said to have a “constant fear of being re-institutionalized.”
In 2022, Britney’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, claimed in her tell-all book that her brother and sister once locked them in a room together while holding a knife.
In an excerpt from her memoir Things I Should Have Said, the 32-year-old Zoey 101 alum recalls Britney telling her she was “scared” before taking a “big knife from the kitchen” and dragging her into her room. and lock them “both inside.” .’
“She put the knife in her nightstand drawer and just repeated, ‘I’m scared,'” Jamie Lynn recalls. “I knew something was wrong and I was powerless to do anything about it.”
Discussing the statement on an episode of Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast in 2022, the former child star explained that she “never felt like (Britney) was going to hurt her or anything.”
“It was just weird. And I didn’t understand it,” she said of the incident, which reportedly happened in 2004, shortly after Britney’s wedding to Jason Alexander, which was annulled within 55 hours.
At the time, Jamie Lynn was only 13 and Britney was 22.
Britney vehemently denied the alleged incident between the two on Twitter.
“I’ve never been around you with a knife and I wouldn’t even think of doing that!!!” In 2022, Spears tweeted: “The only knife I’ve ever seen you with at home was slicing the biggest pieces of pumpkin I’ve ever seen in my life and it was too big for me to handle.” cut”.
Spears then expressed feeling hurt by the statements and said she was “actually really confused” why her sister would “make that up because honestly, it’s not like her” to lie.
Following the book’s release, the Zoey 101 star defended her choice to tell the story, noting that her book was “not about her” sister.
“I can’t help but notice that I was also born into the Spears family and that part of my experience is connected with my sister,” she wrote on Instagram. “I worked a lot before I was a teenager, and I built my career despite being someone’s little sister.”
The pop sensation has been eagerly awaiting the release of her memoir, The Woman in Me, which will be released on October 24.
Last week, she took to Instagram to show a video of a printing press churning out copies en masse.
She captioned it: “Finishing up my book…uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. #TheWomanInMe @simonandschuster @gallerybooks.’
Due to a “rigid prenuptial agreement,” her ex-husband Sam Asghari will not receive any profits from the sale of literary products. He is mentioned in the book, but “infrequently,” a source recently told DailyMail.com.