Britney Spears' former neighbors in her hometown of Kentwood have reached out to the troubled singer - and said "we'll get her right again." "I cry every time I see another story about her on television," said Pam Wright, 44, who works at a convenience store along Kentwood's main drag, U.S. Highway 51. "I think she needs to come home and we'll get her right again. Everybody here loves her. We believe in her."
As the Toxic singer's dramatic downfall continues, residents of Kentwood stand by their marquee native.
"The media should leave her alone," said store clerk Becky Gill, 35.
"Everybody has problems, she's not the only one. But she's the one gets her problems on television. She's the one under constant scrutiny."
Spears grew up in Kentwood, known for Kentwood Springs — a Gulf Coast brand of bottled water, in a ranch-style house near town where her father, Jamie, still lives.
Driving into the town about 90 miles north of New Orleans, you can't miss the hot-pink sign that welcomes visitors to "The home of Britney Spears."
"We don't see much of them [the Spears family] these days," said Gill. "But everybody in Kentwood knows everybody else."
The town's support extends to Britney's 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn Spears, star of the Disney Channel's "Zoey 101 - who made headlines recently with the shock announcement that she was expecting her first child with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Casey Aldridge.
"How many 16-year-old girls get pregnant every week?" Wright said. "It doesn't mean she's a bad person. I don't think this will end her career. Life will go on."
Many visitors make the 5-mile drive off Interstate 55 to the museum, where Hazel Morris said Britney T-shirts, buttons and tote bags sell so well they're hard to keep in stock.
"People from all over the world come to see this," said Morris, 86, a museum worker.
By Owen Williams, Jan 21 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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