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The movie "Crossroads" returns to theaters on Oct. 23 and 25 for a special fan event to accompany the release of Spears' memoir, The Woman in Me._  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 19, 2023 7:23 PM UTC  Britney Spears arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Aug. 28, 2016. Britney Spears arrives at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Aug. 28, 2016. Allen Berezovsky—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 19, 2023 7:23 PM UTC Over the course of her decades-long career in the public eye, [Britney Spears](https://time.com/6317486/britney-spears-life-post-conservatorship/) has been married three times: once to her onetime music video costar Sam Asghari (who she is currently divorcing), once to the father of her two sons, Kevin Federline, and once, for just 55 hours, to her childhood friend Jason Alexander. In her new memoir, [_The Woman in Me_](https://time.com/6325932/britney-spears-madonna-kiss-vmas-2003-book/), a copy of which was obtained by TIME ahead of its Oct. 24 release, Spears reveals how her marriage to Alexander began—and quickly ended—during a New Year's trip to Las Vegas in 2004\. She writes that, after partying for a few days with a group of friends that included Paris Hilton, she and Alexander ended up spending the night together. "He and I got sh-tfaced," she writes. "I don't even remember that night at all, but from what I've pieced together, he and I lounged around the hotel room and stayed up late watching movies—_Mona Lisa Smile_ and _The Texas Chainsaw Massacre_—then had the brilliant idea of going to A Little White Chapel at three thirty in the morning." She goes to explain that she wasn't in love with Alexander, she was simply drunk and bored. "People have asked me if I loved him. To be clear: he and I were not in love," she writes. "I was just honestly very drunk—and probably, in a more general sense at that time in my life, very bored." ### More From TIME Spears writes that her family showed up the next day in a fury to confront her about what she had done, and she ended up having the marriage annulled a mere 55 hours later. But her family's anger over the situation gave her pause. "They made way too big a deal out of innocent fun," she writes. "Everybody has a different perspective on it, but I didn't take it that seriously. I thought a goof-around Vegas wedding was something people might do as a joke. Then my family came and acted like I'd started World War III. I cried the whole rest of the time I was in Las Vegas." Spears remembers the incident as one of the first times she realized how much her family wanted to have control over her life. **Read More:** * [_What’s Changed for Britney Spears Since Her Conservatorship Ended_](https://time.com/6317486/britney-spears-life-post-conservatorship/) * [_Britney Spears on Her Unplanned, Iconic Kiss With Madonna at the VMAs_](https://time.com/6325932/britney-spears-madonna-kiss-vmas-2003-book/) * [_What Britney Spears Reveals About Her Conservatorship in 'The Woman in Me_'](https://time.com/6324615/the-woman-in-me-britney-spears-conservatorship/) "My family was so against the wedding that I started to think maybe I'd accidentally committed a brilliant act," she writes. "Because I realized: something about me being under their control and not having a stronger connection to someone else had become very, very important to them... Perhaps it's worth mentioning that, by this point, I was supporting them financially." It was just a little over four years later that Spears was placed under a [conservatorship](https://time.com/6324615/the-woman-in-me-britney-spears-conservatorship/) that gave her father, Jamie Spears, and an attorney control over her finances and many facets of her personal life. Nearly 20 years after Spears and Alexander's shotgun wedding, once the pop star's conservatorship had been officially terminated, Alexander attempted to crash the 2022 wedding ceremony of Spears and Asghari while livestreaming on Instagram. "I'm here to crash the wedding because nobody is here except Sam," he was overheard telling a worker at the venue, [according to screen recordings](https://www.eonline.com/news/1335997/britney-spears-ex-jason-alexander-tried-to-get-into-bedroom-while-crashing-wedding-security-guard-says). "Where the f-ck is the family?" Alexander was later convicted of aggravated trespassing and battery for the incident. ## Transcript Well, I'm super excited because they're up until now, there was a time that you couldn't get to see the movie and I was like, I'd have people be like, all I've trying to watch Crossroads, and, you know, and you can get it. And so one, I'm just so excited that it's going to be made available again cuz they, they Yap. So, I'm super excited about that. So, that makes me a super excited and then be it's like, you know, you I've had a career that's lasted a long time, which I'm so grateful about and, you know, you do things in the moment and it's wonderful and then you move on and you keep doing things and I'm just so, you know, whatever. I can't believe that how, you know, the success I've had, but sometimes you have to wait a little while so Oh yeah, it was written by Shonda Rhimes. This is her first feature. You know, she is our first feature film. And, and I to me, I think you're seeing the, you know, I'm a master Storyteller. Who knows how to tell a story is complicated, female, stories. And she when you watch the film you really see like we were dealing with some really serious elements that you know at the time and and even now like and I feel like this movie really was, it was made for girls by girls. I found the that style of acting like she'll be called a bad actor. She acts like a Disney actress in this movie with people like Zoe Saldana, Taryn, Manning and Anson Mount like super good, like, solid actors that have grounded performances, isn't that are very realistic. So, Michael with Britney was not to get her to act. I hung out with her enough to where I could figure out who the real Britt. Was cuz at the time she was like super star, but there was a part of her where she was the authentic person. And that's the person that if I could get that person on camera than she wasn't acting. I would really be getting her the essence of her. And that's what I was always trying to get when I would work with her. To read Britney's book and see what she says about making Crossroads. I know, I know I can't wait, I did talk to the. I know the woman that I know the publisher, she shouldn't tell me what's in it, but she did tell me that there is she talks about it in the title of the book is kind of based on a Crossroads and it was Britney after me trying for what? I don't know how many years, five years to get this movie released and told her you would listen to me one phone call from Britney got the movie released. She was the one that got the saint released really cold up. She found out that it's not available Paramount. Didn't renew their license for some reason and she called Stoney and Sony picked up the option to it. And did, this was her wasn't me, wasn't my lawyers wasn't Sean. It was Britney, it's really beautiful in like when she's sitting on the bed in the opening scene and like her dad and she's talking about going to the prom and and that she miss. Out on all those things, you never had a chance to do all the that's really her talking and real emotion from her coming from, she didn't have that experience. You didn't get to lately that Teenage life and have go to prom and go to parties or any of that. 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