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12/03/04 - Showbiz news section
Video suicide for Britney
By Becky Howard, This is London
The UK's current queen of pop Britney Spears is set to shock fans yet again
with a new video in which she commits suicide in the bath.
In the promo for 'Everytime', directed by controversial photographer David
LaChappelle, Britney escapes a mob of baying paparazzi, only to have a
booze-fuelled argument with a boyfriend.
She is then depicted slipping under the water in a bath with an open bottle
of pills beside her. As the boyfriend attempts to revive her, a second,
'new' Britney walks out of the hotel.
The former squeaky-clean pop princess, who is at No.1 in the charts with her
single Toxic, has had a controversial past year - which saw her briefly
marry a childhood friend in Las Vegas, break down in tears in a live TV
interview and allegedly engage in drunken nightclub visits.
The video is seen by many as an ironic sideswipe by Britney to what others
perceive as her 'unstable' state