Like many other A-listers, Britney Spears was also dragged into Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking trial this month. Despite having no connection to the federal charges named against the controversial rapper, the “Oops! I Did It Again” hit-maker’s name earned a mention in Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura’s testimony on May 15.

As one of the key witnesses in the case, the hip-hop mogul’s then-girlfriend testified that her relationship with Combs “sort of” found a launching pad in September 2007 at her 21st birthday party. This particular bash at Jet Nightclub in Las Vegas was also where Ventura encountered a sunglasses and fedora-sporting Britney.

Pictures of the night, now viral on social media, caught Diddy and Cassie sharing the space with the “I Wanna Go” songstress alongside music producer Dallas Austin. “Sean was there, and he brought Dallas Austin, Britney Spears. I think those were the two people that stand out to me,” Ventura said on the stand.

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In light of these remarks, the “Womanizer” crooner’s pics of partying with Combs have once again taken over the timeline. But that’s not all. In addition to the Jet nightclub outing Las Vegas, Britney Spears was pictured in the company of Diddy and Paris Hilton at 50 Cent’s party at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino later that night, according to Page Six.

While it’s a mystery as to when Spears left the scene, the party is believed to have raged on late into the night and continued into the early hours of the next day, September 8, 2007. While one may presume that back-to-back soirees could have done enough to lift Britney’s spirits that week, they did the exact opposite. An unprecedented tumble followed on September 9, 2027, when the pop diva took the stage at the MTV VMAs, delivering a performance of her song “Gimme More,” which was ultimately flagged as the worst-possible throughout her career.

Even though Spears was expected to make an epic comeback with that big stage unveiling, something else ended up unravelling at the scene when the performance was excessively panned. Speculative noise on the internet is now attributing the pop icon’s lacklustre delivery to her partying hard all night with the Bad Boy Records founder.

Britney Spears memoir fans the fire: Infamous VMAs performance

Back in 2023, Spears dropped her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” wherein she laid bare that “nothing was going right” before her now-infamously-remembered performance. Calling out problems with her costume and hair extensions, she admitted, that she was dizzy because “I hadn’t slept the night before.” Knowing what we know at this point, Britney’s memoir, in a way, seemed to have confirmed her whereabouts at the late-night party.

As she faced challenges before her VMAs performance, the situation further spiralled out of her grasp when she came face-to-face with her ex Justin Timberlake – a meeting that left her feeling out of sorts, as also established in her book. Among other crash-landings, Spears also faced public’s wrath after her divorce from Kevin Federline.

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Britney’s 2023 memoir then became a reflection of all those years-old thoughts and emotions that she evidently didn’t move on from despite the long passage of time. In the same book, the “Gimme More” singer confirmed that it all took a toll on her to the extent that she had a panic attack backstage moments before she was supposed to be on stage.

Given the difficult year she was having at the time, she wrote about how she didn’t want to be back on stage but was ultimately pressured into doing so by her team. The measured move was devised to show the world that she was fine even though she clearly wasn’t.

Further divulging that it was barely been less than a year since she had her second baby in two years, and yet, everyone expected her to have six-pack abs. “I couldn’t believe I was going to have to go out onstage feeling the way I felt,” she spilled in the book. “I was having a panic attack. I hadn’t rehearsed enough. I hated the way I looked. I knew it was going to be bad.”

As if things weren’t already bad, comedian Sarah Silverman eventually came out to roast the songstress onstage, too. “I didn’t hear that until later, though. At the time I was backstage sobbing hysterically,” Britney went on in her book, as per People.

The same memoir will soon be brought to the big screen as a biopic. Although everything is still under wraps, Wicked director John M Chu is on board to helm the Universal Pictures outing.

Along with her troubled past coming back under the scanner, Britney Spears recently also made contentious headlines for lighting a cigarette while on a plane, which she has now admitted to. She is said to have put it out after flight attendants requested the same. Authorities reportedly even warned her after the plane landed.