The pop star has hit back at music mogul Clive Davis for what she says are inaccuracies in his new memoir. Davis recalls meeting with Clarkson about her album, "My December," a follow-up to her massively successful second effort. "My December," released in 2007, was darker, full of ballads, and Davis recalls saying "a pop album that still needs pop hits," and that Clarkson exploded in "hysterical sobbing" when he forced her to include the hit "Since U Been Gone" on an earlier album.

"I refuse to be bullied and I just have to clear up his memory lapses and misinformation for myself and for my fans. It feels like a violation," Clarkson writes in a blog post. She notes that she cried in Davis's office after he failed to understand her song "Because of You," which ended up becoming a hit; she was enthusiastic, she says, over "Since U Been Gone," though she wanted more guitars on the track.

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Davis, who has been married and divorced twice, writes that he met a man at Studio 54 and, under the influence, was "open to responding to his sexual overtures." He has, since his second divorce, been in two long-term relationships with men; his current relationship began in 2004.

The mogul, who ran Arista Records during the golden age of the music industry and carefully groomed a young Whitney Houston as she rose to fame, is a master of image (other stars he's worked with include Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys, both of whom rose to fame quickly but had sustained success over many years). He doesn't make mistakes -- and, indeed, though Houston was the subject of lesbian rumors throughout her career, Davis' management ensured that such whispers were quashed.

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