Britney Spears claims she used to drink COCKTAILS in eighth grade with her mother in explosive tell-all memoir The Woman in Me

Britney Spears has claimed she was allowed to drink alcohol when she was only in eighth grade.

In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, the pop singer, 41, who recently revealed she underwent an abortion with ex Justin Timberlake aged 19  – recalled drinking daiquiris with her mother Lynne during short road trips after The All-New Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1995.

The star – who would have been 13 or 14 at the time –  said she had just returned to her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana and would go for two-hour drives with her mother to Biloxi, Mississippi to indulge in ‘toddies’.

In an excerpt published by People on Tuesday, she admitted they did that occasionally as compared to her father’s alleged, more concerning drinking habits.

The Toxic hitmaker — who detailed the unrelenting control her father had over her in her explosive tell-all — said she only yearned for ‘normalcy’ as a teenager but realized that her family really was not ‘normal’.

Another revelation: Britney Spears has claimed she was allowed to drink alcohol when she was only in eighth grade

Recalling her childhood: In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, the pop singer, 41,  recalled drinking daiquiris with her mother Lynne during short road trips after The All-New Mickey Mouse Club ended in 1995 (pictured 2000)

‘For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris,’ she wrote in her book.

‘We called our cocktails “toddies”,’ she recalled. ‘I loved that I was about to drink with my mom every now and then.’ 

She made a point to note that ‘the way we drank was nothing like how my father did it’.

‘When he drank, he grew more depressed and shut down,’ she recalled. ‘We became happier, more alive and adventurous.’  

However, she said eventually she started to miss performing after enjoying time at home — a period of her life she described as ‘something so beautifully normal’ when she got to go to school dances.

She ended up scoring a record deal with Jive Records at the age of 15 and became one of the biggest stars in the world.

After her divorce from Kevin Federline and two involuntary psychiatric holds, her father requested to become her legal guardian and started a conservatorship, which would last 13 years. 

‘The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me a child,’ she wrote in her book. ‘I became more of an entity than a person onstage.’

As a teenager: At the time, she just finished working on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club — which ended in 1995 — and moved back to her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana

Mother-daughter bonding? ‘For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris’ 

Coming soon: Her highly-anticipated tell-all will hit shelves on October 24

She continued: ‘I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.’

In 2021, Spears testified against the ‘abusive’ conservatorship and a Los Angeles judge effectively ended the arrangement.

Although her father denied the claims, the pair have remained estrange since the end of the conservatorship. 

The Woman in Me will hit shelves on October 24.

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