Megyn Kelly said it’s no wonder Britney Spears “wound up as screwed up as she is” in light of her revelation that she drank daiquiris with her mother when she was in the eighth grade.
Kelly, the host of the SiriusXM news talk show “The Megyn Kelly Show,” reacted on Wednesday to the bombshell revelations from Spears’ newly released memoir, “The Woman in Me,” in which the pop singer discusses consuming booze in her early teens.
Spears’ book serves as a “manual on how not to raise your children,” said Kelly, a mother of three, who was aghast at learning that the “…Baby One More Time” singer had “lost her virginity at age 14” and was “taking Adderall like it was candy to get high.”
“I think there are actually a lot of life lessons in this thing, a lot of life lessons for people thinking about putting their child anywhere near the entertainment industry,” Kelly said on Wednesday.
Spears, 41, revealed that in the early 2000s, her then-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, told her he did not want to be a father — which prompted her to abort her pregnancy.
She also wrote in her memoir that she and her mother, Lynne Spears, 68, would take long trips from their Louisiana home during which they would sip cocktails.
“For fun, starting when I was in eighth grade, my mom and I would make the two-hour drive from Kentwood to Biloxi, Mississippi, and while we were there, we would drink daiquiris,” Spears wrote in her memoir.
“We called our cocktails ‘toddies.’”
Britney Spears wrote that she “loved” that she was “able to drink with my mom every now and then.”
Unlike her father, who became “more depressed and shut down” when consuming alcohol, Britney Spears and her mother “became happier, more alive and adventurous,” the singer wrote in the memoir.
In 2008, a judge forced Britney Spears to be subjected to an involuntary conservatorship that empowered her father, Jamie Spears, to exercise control over the singer’s finances, communications, and personal decisions.
Britney Spears, who had several public meltdowns before she was placed in a forced guardianship at the age of 27, claimed in her memoir that during her conservatorship, she was forced to take lithium, a psychiatric medication used to treat mood disorders such as bipolar and other depressive conditions.
Kelly lamented the fact that Jamie Spears was “constantly telling [his daughter] she wasn’t good enough” and “was always telling her she was fat.”
“It’s a horror story. It’s a string of horror stories,” Kelly said.
“I look at this and I say I hope young girls read it.”
The Post has sought comment from Britney Spears, Lynne Spears, Jamie Spears, and Justin Timberlake.