Toxic: The Britney Spears Story - Chapter 8: Me Against the Music - Highlights **IMPORTANT EPISODE!**

[Urbanney]

This week's episode of Toxic: The Britney Spears Story, a podcast hosted by the Britney's Gram girls Tess Barber and Babs Gray, had a lot of important moments for me that I either hadn't heard before or forgot about. Here are the highlights:

• Britney may have been secretly married and divorced to Jason Trawick
• Britney wanted her voicemail to John Eardly about wanting the conservatorship to end to be leaked and was upset when nothing happened after it was leaked
• "I Am Britney Jean" director Fenton Bailey says all interview questions had to be approved by her team
  • Fenton also said that Robin, employed through Tristar and allegedly close to Lou (Robin was allegedly Lou's eyes on the ground for Britney) and Jamie, was the "gatekeeper" to Britney and she was known for always saying "no"
• Remember's Britney's interview from BJ era where she was asked if she rather be in shark infested waters like her "Work *****" video or at the edge of a cliff like in her "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet A Woman" video and she chose the cliff because she had control over whether she could jump or not?
• Robin deciding for Britney and the rest of her team that Britney would work on her birthday
• Britney was constantly changing her phone number, believed she was bugged, people in contact with Britney say their communications were "bugged" too
• All of Britney's household staff, medical aids, and security reported her every move back to Jamie
• Jamie continued to use Britney's kids as a means of coercion even as they got older 
• Britney had to hide small purchases, such as app purchases on her phone.
  • Britney hid these transactions using Bitcoin in 2014
• Britney was considering trying to escape the United States to obtain British citizenship where she wouldn't be subject to California's conservatorship laws
• Andrew Hampp, who interviewed Britney in 2015 for Billboard, says he usually requires flies to the artists he interviews and sits with them for at least an hour to be able to learn something new about them. He only got 15 minutes over the phone with Britney with Larry Rudolf listening in the background and no other role call to clarify who else was listening to the interview (a standard process in the industry)
  • Larry Rudolf wanted to edit out the part of the interview where Britney said her favorite song to perform during the Las Vegas residency was “Toxic,” because she got sprayed with water and it woke her up

Listen to the full podcast episode:

 

https://www.witnesspodcasts.com/shows/toxic-the-britney-spears-story

 

[Urbanney]

Bump since the OG thread got messed up

[britney_rocks]

1 hour ago, Urbanney said:

 

• Remember's Britney's interview from BJ era where she was asked if she rather be in shark infested waters like her "Work *****" video or at the edge of a cliff like in her "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet A Woman" video and she chose the cliff because she had control over whether she could jump or not?

 

Yeah, what about it??

[Slayer]

Oh wow! Thank you for sharing as I haven't got around to listening to this new podcast yet!

Are all the episodes worth listening to? I've been meaning to get around it! This one sounds really interesting!

Knew Robin gave me evil and cold vibes when I met her 

[Urbanney]

3 minutes ago, britney_rocks said:

Yeah, what about it??

Just a poignant thing to think about. I remember people thinking it was weird/concerning when it came out. Now it makes sense: Britney was saying she’d prefer  the option that gave her control, hinting at the fact that she doesn’t have it now. 

2 minutes ago, Slayer said:

Oh wow! Thank you for sharing as I haven't got around to listening to this new podcast yet!

Are all the episodes worth listening to? I've been meaning to get around it! This one sounds really interesting!

Knew Robin gave me evil and cold vibes when I met her 

I literally thought about you saying Robin was cold when you met her when I heard the part about her always saying no. 

I definitely think the podcast is worth listening to! The first few episodes are definitely a good amount of recap, but even with me knowing a lot of it already, the podcast does uncover/add a lot of value we didn’t have before. It also is just poignant and makes me put the puzzle pieces that we’ve already had together in a way that clicks.

Like that interview about Britney jumping to have control, I remember it happening, but now that they brought it up again, I was like “oh damn…” a lot of episodes seems to have something we didn’t know before and every episode seems to make me think/realize more about the whole situation in a good way. 

I’d say try it out while you’re cleaning or exercising or something since you’re killing 2 birds with one stone!

[Persona]

5 minutes ago, Slayer said:

Oh wow! Thank you for sharing as I haven't got around to listening to this new podcast yet!

Are all the episodes worth listening to? I've been meaning to get around it! This one sounds really interesting!

Knew Robin gave me evil and cold vibes when I met her 

The first few episodes will probably be boring to you - like they were for me - because it's an intro for non fans basically. But the latest few are really good. I was sceptical about this but I really like it now. Minus the interview with Jason Alexander. But I guess they wanted to cover all the possible witnesses. Still don't think that was necessary though.

[bas che]

I want to live in this alternate timeline: she escaped to Britain where the corrupt California conservatorship law doesn’t apply. 

[colormefresh]

Is the podcast for 10 year olds?

All of this is old news except the Trawick thing… which was always shady af so

[PokemonSpears]

4 hours ago, Urbanney said:

Bump since the OG thread got messed up

I'm really sorry

[Urbanney]

33 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

I'm really sorry

It’s okay! Don’t worry about my bitterness from hours ago. I probably overreacted. You’re fine

[Speed X]

2 hours ago, colormefresh said:

Is the podcast for 10 year olds?

All of this is old news except the Trawick thing… which was always shady af so

Were you already aware she was considering fleeing the US ? 

[3IsACharm33]

7 hours ago, Urbanney said:

 

• Remember's Britney's interview from BJ era where she was asked if she rather be in shark infested waters like her "Work *****" video or at the edge of a cliff like in her "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet A Woman" video and she chose the cliff because she had control over whether she could jump or not?

                                    

 

• Here’s the video right here where she says it, I stumbled across this last year and I found the entire thing so depressing and sad

[3IsACharm33]

3 hours ago, colormefresh said:

Is the podcast for 10 year olds?

All of this is old news except the Trawick thing… which was always shady af so

Yeah I only learned like 2 news things, I suppose this is more so for the gp and not us fans but there were some interesting things revealed here

[phareezy]

Britney using bitcoin now has me thinking maybe she really is on reddit like the internet streets are saying. If she was on to something like that back in 2014 she is/was definitely lurking where the nerds are online.

This was a good and sad listen. The more you look back the more you realize Britney's been trying to tell us all along. Imagine screaming you need help and it going right over everyone's heads.

[Forever222]

Great episode! The Gram girls are giving it with the last few episodes. 
For everyone here in the know, I think from episode 5 it’s required listening. Yes some stuff is obvious but it’s good to go over again and the episodes aren’t long at all. 

[PokemonSpears]

just a technicality, didn't Jason start working with her since 2006?

[Urbanney]

29 minutes ago, Britman512 said:

                                    

 

• Here’s the video right here where she says it, I stumbled across this last year and I found the entire thing so depressing and sad

Thank you! I was looking for it but couldn’t find it. Same interview as:

She was NOT happy to be there that day (understandably) and I remember all of us noticing it when it was released. 

[nthenwkiss]

3 minutes ago, PokemonSpears said:

just a technicality, didn't Jason start working with her since 2006?

how creepy.

[bitbitboi]

Who is Robin? 

Can we stop adding characters to this E! True Hollywood Story?? I can barely keep up 

[Fenixxx123]

6 minutes ago, bitbitboi said:

Who is Robin?