Britney says: "I'm an emotional wreck"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britney Spears, whose marriage and parenting
skills are under a media microscope, tearfully admitted being "an
emotional wreck" in excerpts of an interview aired on Thursday.

Intermittently weeping and chewing gum throughout, Spears denied she is
estranged from her husband, Kevin Federline, saying on NBC's "Today"
show that Federline is helping her weather the hormonal ups and downs
of her second pregnancy.

"He helps me. He has to. I'm an emotional wreck right now," Spears
said. "Not in a bad way. Just, just, you know, I'll start laughing
hysterically and then I'll just start crying, like just because ... .
It's my hormones.

She called paparazzi images of her driving with her infant son, Sean
Preston, on her lap "cheap shots" and said that as a small child, she
sat in her father's lap as he drove.

Spears said she has wept on occasion over allegations that she is a bad
mother, and wished only that paparazzi would leave her alone.

"You have to realize that we're people and that we need, we just need
privacy and we need our respect," she said. "And those are things that
you have to have as a human being."

The remarks were excerpted from an interview to be shown on NBC's
"Dateline."

Alan Moorman...

I saw most of that, and while it made me like her, I have to admit I
also think she was lying by saying all kinds of things that sounded
more like wishful thinking than facts!

Alan
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