In her memoir The Woman In Me, she wrote, “It was a surprise, but for me, it wasn’t a tragedy. … But Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young.”

On getting an abortion, she said, “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

Britney said that she had an abortion at home and described it as “agonizing,” detailing how she lay on the floor of her bathroom, sobbing and in pain, while Justin played his guitar in an attempt to comfort her.