Britney Spears

IT’S the most sensational comeback in pop history—from crazed star on the brink of self- destruction back to the Britney Spears the world fell in love with.

IT was crowned by her glorious appearance at the MTV video music awards—and looking on was the one person who knows the FULL STORY of her harrowing ordeal . . . her mum Lynne.

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NOW, in heartrending extracts from her gripping new book, she details how her pop princess daughter went to hell and back—and her despair as she watched her life falling apart.

LYNNE Spears wept with joy as she watched her daughter Britney get a standing ovation at last week’s glittering MTV awards show.

The applause finally swept away a nightmare two years in which she’d seen her troubled girl’s life spiral out of control and into a psychiatric hospital.

Lynne, who had witnessed Britney’s terrifying descent into madness, says: “I looked at her on stage and realised I finally had her back.

“I saw the Britney we remember and love—not the girl I had seen strapped to a stretcher being wheeled into a psychiatric hospital—and tears of relief filled my eyes.”

It was a far cry from the MTV video awards of a year ago. For the tears in Lynne’s eyes that night stung with pain as she watched a zombie-like performance from her troubled daughter.

Then the singer was deep in the midst of her personal hell—sucked into a whirlwind of prescription DRUGS and BOOZE, facing DIVORCE from husband Kevin Federline and losing CUSTODY of her two sons.

Branded a danger to herself and her children. Careering towards a mental BREAKDOWN.