Britney Spears is still the chum in the media feeding frenzy, even on the biggest day of her
little sister Jamie Lynn’s life. And this time, it’s news of the troubled star’s suicide attempts dangling as bait.
We hate to even report on something so personal, but letting the subject of Britney Spears’ supposed suicide attempts go by would be doing a disservice. But rather than speculate on whether the story is true or not, we just want to say – it’s time for the media, the tabloids, the photographers to just butt out.
The Details:
Ian Halperin is an award-winning undercover reporter, known primarily for his exposés on Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Well this time, Ian has turned his so-called investigation skills toward Britney Spears, for his new book Stalking Britney: Under Siege With Britney Spears, an unauthorized biography.
The author told Life & Style Magazine that he can confirm that Britney Spears has tried to kill herself on more than one occasion because he spent 18 months undercover as a photographer to get up close and personal with the troubled star.
“The suicide attempts are true. I know all the details about both of them,” he said in the interview. “I partied with her and was able to really monitor the type of stuff she was using. It’s very concerning.”
Isn’t it though? Everything about Britney Spears is concerning, so how is it that the press keeps eating her up? The cameras are still in her face, the reporters are still snooping around. It’s obscene.
Our Deal:
Yes, celebrity news is interesting and fun, but there comes a time when everyone has to draw a line. Ours is here. We’re sick of the press getting into the extremely private lives of celebrities when they’re at their most vulnerable.
Britney Spears is sick. She is vulnerable. Stalking Britney, as Ian Halperin so fittingly calls it, is like kicking a dog in the ribs for the third time after it’s just gotten up and staggered back to you after the second time you booted it. It’s sick. And it should stop.
In this blog we cover celebrity news, it’s true. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad. But we do our best to focus on what is actually news and not what is private or destructive. We don’t want to make any celebrity's life worse for the sake of a story.
You know, sometimes we make a little fun around the office about the comments we get from our younger readers – the “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE” followed by 15 exclamation points kind.
But you know what? Those teenagers are right. It is time to leave Britney alone. Let her get her life back, then we’ll be waiting to cover her news.
We want to write the stories on Britney’s comeback, not the one on her dying way too young.