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Everytime - Music video

Directed by David LaChapelle, the controversial music video for the song was originally supposed to depict Spears' character dying in a bathtub from an "accidental" overdose of pills and alcohol.

When word leaked out about the video's content, protests quickly changed it. The released video exists in two versions; the American version being slightly cleaned up, and the international version showing more skin and blood than deemed normally acceptable by MTV's standards. The video also features Stephen Dorff as her estranged boyfriend (who some critics and fans believe is thought to represent Justin Timberlake). The video portrays the couple arriving at a hotel in Las Vegas, where they are hounded by the paparazzi, one of which pulls Spears from the back and causes her to get a concussion, something that the star does not notice until later in the video. After the couple reaches their suite and have an argument that involves Stephen throwing a vase and wrecking the room, Spears disappears into the bathroom, where she realizes that she is bleeding from the back of her head before drowning in the bathtub that she is lying in.

In the U.S. version, she dreams that she is reincarnated and wakes up at the end after her boyfriend discovers her body; Spears' ghost is shown walking through a hospital where a woman is dying in one cubicle and a baby is being born in the next, symbolizing the reincarnation. In the international version, she is reincarnated but does not wake up at the end.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Music video", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki