Christina & Jordan Bratman's Divorced Finalized

It was beautiful while it lasted.

After a mandatory six-month waiting period, Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman's divorce was finalized Friday morning, court records unearthed by E! News confirm.

After separating in September, Aguilera, 30, filed for divorce from music producer Bratman, 32, in October. The duo share a 3-year-old son, Max.

Last fall, the star rebounded from Bratman with Matthew Rutler, a set assistant she met while making Burlesque.

But even with a cute new guy at her side (they're still together), the former teen pop sensation famously unraveled in a series of very public missteps in early 2011: She flubbed the the National Anthem during the Super Bowl, nearly fell offstage at the Grammy Awards, was arrested for public drunkenness and more. (An insider told Us Weekly that she crashed Jeremy Renner's 40th birthday bash in February -- and was so drunk that she passed out in his bed.)

Those recent embarrassments are now behind her, Aguilera insisted recently as she promoted her new gig on NBC's singing competition The Voice.

"In light of the past year, there have been obvious setbacks," she told Us Magazine last week. "I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish."

"It's a life-uprooting time and there have been hiccups along the way that unfortunately the whole world gets to witness and judge," she added.

Credit: Us Magazine

The musical Annie and the shattered lives in its wake

There've been a few documentaries about Annie. Even the ones that are pro-Annie reveal the dark underbelly of this grotesque musical.

Annie has left a trail of shattered lives, lost childhoods and broken homes.

First of all, they fire children right and left. One girl had the lead in Annie, she got bronchitis. She wanted to keep performing anyway, but the doctor told her mother he would call Child Protective Services if she did. It turns out the girl was right to be worried. She stayed home from work. Became suspicious when she learned that her understudy wasn't the one taking her place. And a fax arrived in the middle of the night. (This may have been before email was in general use.) The rotten bastards fired her by fax.

They would bring the girls out every week and weigh them and measure them. If they grew or gained weight, they were fired.

There were the broken families. One parent had to go on tour with the roadshow production of the play. This meant that parents were separated for long periods. There were several cases where this ended in divorce.

In one case, a mother was sleeping around while on the road. Another mother had to help her secure an abortion.

In another case, a girl from a single-parent home was in the production. Her mother traveled with her, meaning her brother had to be left with his aunt. The brother was essentially turned into an orphan so that his sister could play an orphan on stage.

There was a girl fired from the production. Her mother told her the news. She was fired for having grown a couple of inches. The girl threw an 8 x 10 glossy of herself on the floor, began stomping on it yelling, "I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!" at her own picture.

You watch video of the children working hard, rehearsing over and over as they sing about being forced to work.

But, of course, it's those of us who can't stand crap like Annie who are denounced for being cold-hearted and cynical.

The most hideously exploited child star in the movies or television is at least treated as a recognizable individual. With this disgusting musical, they just bring out another girl, put the wig on her, and the rubes in the audience don't know the difference.