The most recent pile of skeletons to fall out of the Spears’ family closet is so disturbing as to make one fervently wish that history doesn’t repeat itself. Britney may be careening down the tracks of repeated trainwrecks, but it seems that her personal tragedies (struggling for custody of kids, fighting drug-use accusations, battling a declining career) haven’t yet reached the depths of tragedy reached by Spears’ of earlier generations.
According to an upcoming edition of Us Weekly (the same edition trumpeting the more salacious stories about Britney losing her virginity at age 14), Britney’s grandmother Emma Jean Spears suffered from depression and committed suicide. She is said to have shot herself at her 3-day old daughter’s grave after losing the infant when Jamie Britney’s father) was just a child. Emma jean was just 31 years old, and had reportedly attempted suicide a few times before.
That’s a terrible, terrible, terrible thing. More terrible when one considers that clinical depression can become a legacy in families, passed down between generations.
Makes one sorta want to reconsider that ‘Prayers For Britney‘ thing that was too easy to make fun of the other day.
Source: Us Weekly
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When I read the latest gossip about Britney on http://www.globalgrind.com I actually started to feel bad for her. It seems like the media are trying to break her down more and more by revealing every juicy detail of her life. I can imagine that her childhood could have been rough, but I bet that the constant media scrutiny isn’t doing much to alleviate her troubles.
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