Britney Spears has laid bare the horrors of her conservatorship and career in her new memoir, The Woman in Me.

The pop princess, 41, claims she was pushed to perform against her will and even trashed her 2003 pre-conservatorship Onyx Hotel Tour, calling it ‘stupid’ and ‘too sexual’.

However, noticeably missing from the book is any in-depth coverage of the Australian leg of her 2009 Circus tour, which was billed as the star’s big comeback following her 2007 breakdown.

The Aussie jaunt was embroiled in controversy, attracting negative media attention Down Under which eventually led to the government getting involved.

Before the tour had even started, the Minister for Fair Trading for New South Wales Virginia Judge blasted Spears for lip syncing and said she was considering adding disclaimers on tickets and promotional materials warning fans that the vocals were pre-recorded.

Britney Spears was vilified by the Australian media and government during her 2009 Circus tour

Despite the tour’s enormous success, local media outlets claimed that fans had walked out of shows and Spears was savaged for lip-syncing on stage

‘It is Britney’s prerogative to lip-sync, and it is my job to make sure consumers know what they are paying for up front,’ Judge said in a statement.

‘If you are spending up to $200, I think you deserve better than a film clip.’

Rubbing more salt into the wound, Judge sniped, ‘Personally I would rather see a live set from a local artist’.

Things went from bad to worse once the tour kicked off in Perth, after a journalist at The Advertiser claimed that fans had ‘walked out’ of the concert.

Australia’s Minister for Fair Trading for New South Wales Virginia Judge (pictured) blasted Spears for lip syncing at the time and said she was considering adding disclaimers on tickets warning fans that the vocals were pre-recorded

In a scathing article, the journalist claimed that fans had stormed out of the show after the Toxic songstress mimed and failed to interact with the audience.

The story spread like wildfire, leaving Britney ‘extremely upset’ and forcing both her manager and the tour’s Australian promoter to issue statements to quell the backlash.

‘It’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard. I’m so angry,’ Australian tour promoter Paul Dainty said at the time.

‘We can take heat if there’s something wrong and people can review shows badly – that’s something you have to live with – but to say people stormed out of the show was an absolute fabrication,’ he continued.

Things went from bad to worse once the tour kicked off in Perth, after a journalist claimed that fans had ‘walked out’ of the concert

‘Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it. She’s a human being. I’m embarrassed, with such a big international entourage here with Britney, to be part of the Australian media when I see that kind of totally inaccurate reporting.’

He added, ‘It’s been all over the internet for nine months, the inference is that we tried to hide this. It’s been the opposite. This show is about an incredible spectacle, which it is’.

Britney’s manager Adam Leber also weighed in, saying, ‘It’s unfortunate that one journalist in Perth didn’t enjoy the show last night. Fortunately the other 18,272 fans in attendance did.’

‘Britney is aware of all this and she’s extremely upset by it’: Spears was devastated by the backlash from the Australian media

Britney looked strained as she carried her young son in Sydney, Australia during a break from the tour

When the furore failed to die down, Spears herself eventually issued a brief statement.

‘I hear there is a lot of controversy in the media about my show. Some reporters have said they love it and some don’t. I came to Australia for my fans,’ she said.

Despite the negative reception, the Australian leg of the Circus tour sold 97.7% of its tickets and grossed well over $20million.

However, it was the last time Spears would ever perform Down Under, with the star leaving Australia off her tour schedule despite playing shows in Asia and Europe multiple times over the next decade.

The star skipped over the Circus drama in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, but she did address some of her other tours and residencies in the tome.

Spears embarked on The Onyx Hotel Tour in March 2004 in support of her 2003 album In the Zone, which spanned 54 shows.

The singer recalled in The Woman In Me that the tour was, ‘too sexual, for a start,’ adding it was, ‘rough.’

Despite the negative reception, the Australian leg of the Circus tour sold 97.7% of its tickets and grossed well over $20million

Two years earlier, Spears had broken up with Justin Timberlake, with the singer revealing in the book that her sexually-charged tour was a measure of revenge.

‘My rebuttal onstage was to kind of go there a little bit. But it was absolutely horrible. I hated it in the moment,’ Spears says in the book.

She went on to call the tour ‘stupid’ and confessed that she would pray every night that she would break a bone so she could pull the plug on the whole thing.

Spears also slammed her Vegas residencies, alleging that she’d been forced into it and didn’t have creative control when it came to her choreography.

‘I’d learn soon because once I made it clear that I wasn’t going to keep doing Vegas, my family made me disappear,’ she wrote in the memoir.

Britney recently blasted her 2004 Onyx Hotel tour, calling it ‘stupid’ and ‘too sexual’. (Pictured in 2004)

Spears also slammed her Vegas residencies, alleging that she’d been forced into it and didn’t have creative control when it came to her choreography. (Pictured in 2016)

Britney Spears dances in crop top following her memoir release

It comes after Britney happily celebrated the book becoming the ‘highest selling celebrity memoir in history’.

The Baby One More Time songstress, 41 – who officially dropped the anticipated memoir also on Tuesday – gushed to her 42.3 million fans and followers, ‘It’s happening!!!’

‘My book is the highest selling celebrity memoir in history and it’s only day 1 !!! Thank you to the fans who have been so supportive !!! Love you all !! #TheWomanInMe @gallerybooks @simonandschuster.’

She uploaded a photo of the book cover on Instagram and included a short reel that had the words, ‘My story. On my terms. At last,’ appear on the screen.

The audiobook version was also released, which notably was narrated by Oscar-nominated actress, Michelle Williams.

It comes after Britney happily celebrated the book becoming the ‘highest selling celebrity memoir in history’