Following the break-up with her boyfriend of the time, Justin Timberlake, and the release of her fourth album, Britney Spears was pressured by her father to sit down for a heartbreaking interview with journalist Diane Sawyer in 2003.
It came at a time when female celebrities were regularly bombarded with awkward, innapropriate and downright misogynistic questions and expected to answer them with grace; because if they didn’t, both the media and public would label them rude, ungrateful or difficult.
“I didn’t want to share anything private with the world,” said Spears. “I didn’t owe the media details of my break-up. I shouldn’t have been forced to speak on national TV, forced to cry in front of this stranger, a woman who was relentlessly going after me with harsh question after harsh question. Instead, I felt like I had been exploited, set up in front of the whole world.”
The singer has now labelled the sit-down chat as a “breaking point” for her mentally, and one that would lead her down one of the darkest paths a celebrity has ever trodden in the public eye.
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