Britney Spears reflects on that infamous 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer
Now that her conservatorship is over, Britney Spears is speaking out about the media's treatment of her
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Britney Spears wasn’t able to speak about the media’s abhorrent treatment of her in the documentary Framing Britney Spears, but now that her conservatorship is finished, she has no qualms talking about many of her messed up experiences. In an Instagram post published on Monday, Spears wrote about her infamous 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer, and provided some more context.
“Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago?,” wrote the pop icon. “What was it with the ‘you’re in the wrong’ approach? Geeze… and making me cry?? Seriously though… I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone… my manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television. She asked me if I had a shopping problem!!! When did I have a problem with shopping??”
Spears also explained that she was already feeling vulnerable after her 2002 breakup with Justin Timberlake, and that the interview with Sawyer harmed her mental state further. “Something I never shared when I had that big breakup years ago was that I couldn’t talk afterwards… I never spoke to anyone for a very long time… I was in shock… pretty lame of my dad and three men to show up at my door when I could hardly speak… two days later they put Diane Sawyer in my living room…they forced me to talk!!!,” she recalled.
“I was a baby… I was almost 22 and didn’t understand… but I fucking know now,” she added, with a middle finger emoji. “She said ‘a woman or a girl…’ I would like to say now, ‘Ma’am, I’m a Catholic slut!!! You wanna join me at a mass and I can serve your husband my certificate on shopping for anonymous players???’ I should spend a thousand dollars if I want every day of my life and she can kiss my white ass.”
In the Primetime interview, Sawyer interrogated Spears on many inappropriate aspects of her life, including her sex life, and she criticized Spears for posing nude on magazine covers like Rolling Stone.
Sawyer has yet to give a statement on Spears’ comment.
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“Sawyer interrogated Spears on many inappropriate aspects of her life, including her sex life” would read much better as “Sawyer inappropriately interrogated Spears on many aspects of her life…”
These people aren’t journalists. They’re barely even writers.
That’s the kind of writing you get when the herbs in charge pay shit wages. They’ve been scraping the bottom of the barrel for years now, and this particular blogger is among their worst hires.
Why does it seem like all the most famous NEWSWOMEN of the 80s and 90s are absolutely horrendous people?
Because coming up in the 70s in a male dominated field selected for cutthroat people who were simultaneously egotistical and desperate to prove themselves?
Because they all came up in the business during the 50s, 60s and 70s.
Is there something more than this one interview that makes Sawyer a bad person?
Her and Walters are a constant post-2010 target of “actually that famous person is trash and always was”.
I think the way you just said that makes it unclear as to whether/why you think the backlash against them is deserved.
Why doesn’t Laserface like you?
I remember it started a few years ago when he kept blasting me for defending the book Ready Player One, but I don’t remember exactly how it snowballed into him constantly talking shit about me and blocking any attempt I make to reply to him.
I would actually suggest you hit the dismiss button on Laserface: creepy nut job who keeps screenshots and records of things people have posted in the comments here over a year ago in order to use against them in entirely unrelated conversations. But actually, don’t dismiss him. Let everyone see how fucking sociopathic his behavior is.
Mostly just Dino and one other guy who was a serious bigot troll. It’s kind of funny.
“keeps screenshots”….?I mean, presumably the comments are still there for everyone to see right on the original article they appeared on, no?
Not mine. A month ago my original account was put in the grays for some reason and all my comments from the Kinjapocalypse to that point have disappeared.
She also eats kittens.
You might wanna hit the dismiss button on Dino Ironbody: Defender of Blackface and Transphobes.
Connie Chung kicked my dog.
“I would like to say now, ‘Ma’am, I’m a Catholic slut!!!”This comment deserves full honours. 21-gun salute, big shitty march with metric tons of confetti, a musical adaptation, anything.
I love Spears’ unbroken flow of words, because there’s always a gem of perfection in there.
If only she could write a song.
girl wrote a lot of her hits.
it was a Swedish guy.
I have no idea what that guy is on about. Frank Sinatra never wrote a song in his life and no one seems to give a shit
Like most years, I wasn’t paying that much attention to Britney Spears or Diane Sawyer in 2003, is this interview really that infamous?
Yes. Britney’s summary of it only gives the worst parts.
There’s more? This is the first I’ve heard of any impact of this interview, I assumed she summed up the entire interview in her IG rant.
Yeah, this is all news to me.I have always been only tangentially aware of this whole thing but it appears to continue making bigger and bigger news now that it’s resolved.
Nobody is going to want to hear this, and I was fully Free Britney, but when you are 22 you are not a baby.
But if a 22 year old was a baby, it might be because it experienced a very insulated, insular childhood full of pageants and Mickey Mouse Club.
Just imagine the exploded perineum on her mother when that 22-year old baby ripped through her poor body…
I…don’t think she meant literally.
and i did?
So… you don’t consider 22 an age when must people are still getting to know the world and their place within it, and when someone is still likely to be very naive? Because that’s pretty clearly what she meant by “baby” and I’d say it rings true.
And that woman dared to play neutral when talking about a Governor’s Wife saying she’d like to shoot Britney in the face.
Have Pink and all those other popstars who used her as cheap, pseudo-feminist “I’m not like most girls and especially not like Britney” punchline ever commented on their lyrics during the whole shitshow, by the way?
How do dresses like that stay on?
Adhesives.
In the words of Carrie Fisher, “In space they don’t have underwear, they have duct tape.”