Christina Aguilera's Awful Year, Explained By Christina
It has been anything but a stellar year for one time teen queen,
Christina Aguilera.
It's been mishap after mishap for months now, first with her album 'Bionic' flopping, then in October, when news first broke that she and husband of five years, Jordan Bratman had split -- from then on it was a downward spiral no one saw coming. Now, the 'Beautiful' songstress is finally talking, addressing each and every unfortunate incident.
'The Voice' judge opens up in the July issue of
W magazine, reliving her most disastrous moments from the last year and giving her side of the story.
Aguilera explains, "Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles. I laugh a lot lately. People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong."
While the world was laughing and speculating about the singer, it seems she had a clear understanding of what was happening to her, one of the worst bad luck streaks, ever. She's picked herself up and dusted herself off, and now she is ready to set the record straight.
When W asked about her
failed marriage, she was anything but subtle, hinting that both she and Bratman had been unfaithful: "At one time or another we were both not angels. It got to a point where our life at home was reminding me of my own childhood." She then declared, "I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home. I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say. That goes against everything I sing on my records. I have to be myself."
Bad press about her divorce was the least of her troubles. It was not long before she was out in the public eye with another man, 25-year-old Matt Rutler. The pair met on the set of her disappointing film debut in 'Burlesque.' But a new man wasn't enough to give Aguilera a new start -- it wasn't long before she found her name back in the headlines, detailing her stumbles and unflattering accusations.
It was reported that
she passed out in actor Jeremy Renner's bed, during his 40th birthday party. When Renner went into his room, he found her slurring her words, laying in his bed with Rutler rubbing her back. Aguilera's response to this story is simple, "At one point I sat on the edge of a bed. It was a guest room. But it only takes one person to start the negativity, and then everyone wants to hop aboard and continue the story."
It only snowballed from there. The pair made one of their first appearances as a couple at the Super Bowl in February, where Aguilera so
famously flubbed the lyrics to 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'
"I got lost in the emotion of being there and I messed up the lyrics to the song." But from her reaction to the incident, she doesn't seem to take herself too seriously. "I went to dinner after the Super Bowl with Matt and I laughed about how I'd made myself into a Trivial Pursuit question: 'In 2011 what female singer flubbed the lyrics to the national anthem?'"
A few weeks later,
her stumble on stage during the Grammys put her back in the headlines. Was she intoxicated, or exhausted?
"I know what everyone was saying," Aguilera said. "And during that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage. My heel got caught in my train, and if it wasn't for Jennifer Hudson, who picked me up as I went down, I would have fallen to the floor. When it happened, it was just like, What else, God?! What else?! I threw my hands up in the air and started smiling, because what else could go wrong?"
She had become the butt of every late night joke and the next train wreck to keep an eye out for, but her involvement in the newest singing
reality show sensation, 'The Voice,' might just be the boost she had been so desperately in need of.
Let's hope we can give this year's turnaround award to Aguilera.
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Y get amarried if ur going to sleep around Chrissy.
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I have watched Christina on The Voice but whet is going on with her appearance? Too much hair-too much makeup-shorts up to her crack and boobs always hanging out. She looks like a less unattractive younger version Of Dolly Parton-she needs a stylist to give her a makeover.
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I've thought the same thing, I always really liked her voice and she is a very pretty lady but I don't know why she feels the need to have her tatas pretty much falling out of her top and so much makeup it's just unnatural.
I love her moraled and laughts at herself A great and a pro
And those HUGE thighs!
why you want to know? shes a alcoholic look shes swollen from drinking to much this girl has lost touch with reality . there is your answer. i can dish all movie stars and famous people i have a gift.
Can you say PHOTO SHOP? that cover looks NOTHING like Christina- she has obviously been STRETCHED to make her appear lean and long- recently she has put on the pounds and is no longer thin! She needs to take responsibility for her actions and not blame it on the "negativity" of others. I hope she can pull it together because she has a child to consider-one she barely mentions here. Sad for the child. I am sure it is better to be ignored by your mother and live in choas than a "tension filled home!" See you in REHAB Christina.
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Why do you feel the need to be so nasty? So what if she doesn't talk about her child constantly. The article is about her, not her child, and perhaps as a star she wants to protect her child from the same sort of scrutiny people like yourself put on her. I like Christina, she is definitely talented, and as she admits, she had a bad year. But "The Voice" is a hit, and with another top album, which I'm sure she'll put out soon, she'll be back on top.
First off, the article wasn't about her son it was her past year. And second, she ALWAYS talks about her son on her late night interviews, especially recently. Look it up. (I do agree with the photoshop though)
I agree! I dont believe her ex cheated on her, but I do believe she cheated on him! Shes gross!! Wow I wish they photo shopped that mug some more!
SPOT ON!!! That photo could have had anyone's name on it for as much as it resembled Aguilara.
"First off, the article wasn't about her son it was her past year."
Wow, I didn't realize she hasn't seen her kid in a year. Is it one of those situations like Britney Spears where they took the kid away?
@Bobby Dee: The title of the article is "Christina Aguilera's Awful Year..." I sure hope her son wouldn't be part of that.
Poor Christina, joining the ranks of Demi and the other disney hasbeens, BRITNEY EXCLUDED. To once be so close to the top and now to be sludge at the bottom of a bottle!
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do you not remember when brittany had her head shaved a while back? oh yeah brittany included.
Has beens? Some of the most beautiful, sexiest girls in Hollywood came from Disney--many guys have gone to sleep with the image of one on his mind over the years! Either you're blind or jealous!
We should include Britney.
Uh..photoshopped...TA DEATH. She looks like she's been pulled by a taffy machine.
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Is it just me or are her and Snookie long lost identical twins?
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Just you.