Britney Spears signs $15m book deal

It comes after a bidding war from publishers over the pop star's tell-all 'bombshell'

Britney Spears turned 40 in December and became engaged to Iranian actor Sam Asghari who is 27. EPA

Britney Spears has signed a $15 million deal to write her own memoir to counter "derogatory" allegations made in her sister's scandalous book, Things I Should’ve Said, according to multiple industry sources.

The giant deal is akin to those sealed by former presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W Bush, as well as former first ladies Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, all of whom received eight-figure book deals.

Terms of the deal, first reported by the New York Post's "Page Six" and confirmed by multiple US outlets, were not revealed.

Publishing house Simon & Schuster and Spears have secured a deal for the pop star’s memoir an individual familiar with Spears told Variety. The memoir will reportedly include Spears’ accounts of and commentary on her career trajectory, the music industry and her roller coaster relationship with her family.

Spears’s younger sister, Jamie Lynn, insisted that her own book was not about her sister, though she wrote about a time Britney took a knife and locked them both in a room when she was only 12.

Since the Toxic singer was released from her 13-year conservatorship in November 2021, fans and media have been speculating was her next move would be. During a Las Vegas residency between 2013 -2017 – while under her father’s control – Spears performed 250 shows and earned a reported $138m.

“I was thinking about when I did shows in Vegas … the four years I was there I went out only two times!!!! Unfortunately I’m not lying,” Spears tweeted.

Jamie Spears has recently acknowledged that his daughter "believes that she can handle her own life", but vehemently denies he abused his position controlling his daughter's life and career.

In December, Spears was invited to speak before the US Congress about her experiences regarding the conservatorship, which she recently shared on Instagram. Last year, a bipartisan legislative effort was launched to reform the process created to protect the rights of more than one million people across the US placed under protective arrangements.

Dubbed the Free Britney Act, the legislation is designed to give more options to people placed under conservatorships.