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"Kelly Clarkson has slammed Clive Davis over a number of accusations made in his memoir. The Stronger singer claimed that the music industry exec was &amp;quot;spreading false information&amp;quot; about her and her music, and said the details in his new book The Soundtrack of My Life &amp;quot;feel like a violation&amp;quot;.   Writing on her WhoSay page, Clarkson first responded to the allegation that she burst into &amp;quot;hysterical sobbing&amp;quot; in Davis&amp;#039;s office when he demanded that &amp;#039;Since U Been Gone&amp;#039; be on her album. &amp;quot;Not true at all,&amp;quot; she told fans. &amp;quot;His stories and songs are mixed up. I did want more guitars added to the original demo and Clive did not. &amp;quot;[Producers Max Martin, Dr Luke] and I still fought for the bigger sound and we prevailed and I couldn&amp;#039;t be more proud of the life of that song. I resent him dampening that song in any way.&amp;quot; Clarkson went on to admit that she had cried in his office once, but only after his stinging criticism of her song &amp;#039;Because Of You&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;I cried because he hated it and told me verbatim that I was a &amp;#039;s**tty writer who should be grateful for the gifts that he bestows upon me&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; she alleged.      &amp;quot;He continued on about how the song didn&amp;#039;t rhyme and how I should just shut up and sing. This was devastating coming from a man who I, as a young girl, considered a musical hero and was so honored to work with.  &amp;quot;But I continued to fight for the song and the label relented. And it became a worldwide hit. He didn&amp;#039;t include that in the book.&amp;quot; Moving on to address Davis&amp;#039;s assertion that her 2007 album My December wasn&amp;#039;t successful because Clarkson herself co-penned the album and it didn&amp;#039;t have &amp;quot;pop hits&amp;quot;, the American Idol winner fired back: &amp;quot;Well, first let me say, I&amp;#039;ve co-penned many of my &amp;#039;pop hits&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Secondly, My December went platinum. (It sold 20,000 less than All I Ever Wanted which followed My December.) Hardly a huge failure. &amp;#039;Never Again&amp;#039;, the ONLY single they released in the US from that record was a Top 10 hit. I am very proud of that and I have my fans to thank.  &amp;quot;But, again, what&amp;#039;s most interesting about his story is what he leaves out: He doesn&amp;#039;t mention how he stood up in front of his company at a convention and belittled me and my music and completely sabotaged the entire project. It never had a chance to reach its full potential. &amp;quot;My December was an album I needed to make for myself for many reasons and the fact that I was so completely disregarded and disrespected was so disheartening, there really aren&amp;#039;t words to explain.&amp;quot; Clarkson, who has been forced to play down rumours of a feud with Davis in the past, wrote: &amp;quot;I refuse to be bullied and I just have to clear up his memory lapses and misinformation for myself and for my fans.&amp;quot; Davis made headlines recently after publicly revealing his bisexuality in an interview with Katie Couric. Watch the video for Kelly Clarkson&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Never Again&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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