14 DAY TRIAL // Christina Aguilera, looking very slim and rather doll-like, is the cover girl of the dual issue of W Magazine. In the accompanying interview, the star goes into the details of the difficult year she’s been having, and stresses that it’s always good to come out on top.
From a disappointing album to divorce, getting arrested for public intoxication, messing up the words to the National Anthem at the Super Bowl and constant reports of being a drunk and a trainwreck, Christina has had a very nasty year.
She kept mum on the things going on in her life until just recently, when things finally started looking up, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t hurt her to have certain things play out in the media, she says for W.
Aguilera is a fighter, though – and she’s finally made it through.
“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,” she says.
Opening up about how her marriage to music executive Jordan Bratman came apart after 5 years, Christina hints that neither was faithful at one point.
“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. I will not have my son grow up in a tensionfilled home,” she says.
“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,” Christina underlines.
So, against the world she went, the W piece reads: she braved the rumors and ignored the negativism, and just powered through, blasting all obstacles that came in her way and of which she’s speaking now.
“It never should have happened in the first place,” she says of the night she and boyfriend Matt Rutler were arrested for being drunk.
“The police knew my recent history and wanted to jump on the bandwagon. I don’t mean to martyr myself, but I think I was a victim of celebrity. I don’t drive, I wasn’t driving, and I committed no crimes, but they put me in jail,” she explains.
“They called me a ‘political hot potato.’ They said, ‘What are we going to do with this woman?’ I think they were bored that night,” Christina ventures a guess.
In the end, such controversy and scandal was just the thing for her career, W argues. She’s also landed the job as judge on The Voice, which further raised her profile and reminded everybody of her amazing voice.
In the end, Christina Aguilera came out triumphant.
For the full editorial on the singer, see here.