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Ahead of the release of Britney Spears’ memoir The Woman in Me on Tuesday, the Daily Mail has acquired and shared a piece of film that’s become the stuff of Hollywood legend: Spears’ audition tape for The Notebook, the hit blockbuster that ended up starring Rachel McAdams as Allie, a wealthy heiress who falls for Ryan Gosling’s penniless heartthrob Noah.
In the clip, Spears convincingly breaks down as she tells an off-camera Gosling, as Noah, that part of her wishes he had died in the war so she wouldn’t ever have to see him with someone else.
“For seven years, no matter what I did, I couldn’t get you out of my mind,” Spears sobs, “and then I met Lon, and I told him I’d marry him. And I wanna marry him, I really do. But then I saw your picture in the paper and I knew I had to see you again because we never really finished things, not really.”