Hollywood created a superstar - And pain was the price your kids paid

Are we all to blame for Britney? by Clare Murphy, published on bbcnews.com today insinuates that mass voyeurism is responsible for celebrities’ antics and public breakdowns. In the article, Guardian's Peter Preston is quoted saying:” if Britney did destruct, we would all have her blood on our hands.” Furthermore, Britney Spears is called” a victim of an exploitative industry, a sensationalist media, and a public who seem to enjoy voyeuristically the troubles of superstars and celebrities."

One may look at it this way, put on Elton John’s tribute to Marilyn Monroe, Candle in the Wind, and indulge in a fair amount of self-loath over how this poor girl’s life has been made a living nightmare by every single one of us.

One may also ask what an adult has to act the way she does for; and whether the people who are now keen on pictures of her without underwear, of her being wheeled away on stretchers, aren’t exactly the ones who brought her to fame in the first place. Who would have blamed them for purchasing her records?

When her eccentricities commenced, a blog commented on it by saying that she had ended up where she had started, namely as white trash. Harsh words indeed – but given being a mother of two, there is no place for a victimization of a peeping tom culture.

The only victims in this whole mess are the children and sure as fuck not a 26 year old woman who can’t straighten out her life, in spite of having more opportunities, arguably in terms of talent but definitely financially, to do so than the vast majority of the so-branded ‘voyeuristic public’.