US Weekly has revealed Britney Spears‘ darkest secret and her family’s tragic history in their most recent issue.

According to Eric Ervin, lawyer who worked with Spears as a teenager, told the magazine that the “virgin” image when she started her music career was only a “PR blitz.”

Within the same issue, the magazine also reported that Britney lost her virginity before she dated Justin Timberlake. She was only 14 when she got deflowered by ex-boyfriend Reg Jones, and her relationship with Justin Timberlake were intimate from the beginning.

The sneak peak to the magazine also revealed that Spears’ paternal grandmother, Emma Jean Spears, committed suicide in June 1966 at age 31. Britney’s grandmother, who suffered from depression, shot herself in the chest with a shotgun at the grave of her infant son who had died eight years earlier just three days after being born.

Britney’s great uncle, Earnest Spears said of Britney’s sad childhood: “She didn’t have a hope of turning out normal”.