Britney Spears says she "cried for two weeks" after watching documentary

[balancedandfair]

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For the first time since the release of NYTimes/Hulu's "Framing Britney Spears," the princess of pop herself has *commented on the documentary.

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[likewowman]

Doesn’t every Instagram post take weeks because it has to go through rounds of management approval? There is no way this is an off the cuff representation of her true feelings.

[murdertheopera]

how is there no way? she's been shit on on and off for over a decade, even longer when you think about it. i can see where she'd be embarrassed about the entire thing when it's her business she doesn't even speak on to begin with.

[likewowman]

i didn’t say it’s not possible that any of her post is true

[murdertheopera]

i didn't say you did, i asked about what you said specifically when it's very obvious how there is a way

[peggybundy]

Oh, man...

Everyone just needs to leave her alone. The fans, the media, her father. I understand that this #FreeBritney movement is meant to help her but I think she is doing everything she can to get out of it or at least have her father removed as her conservator. I don't think media attention and all the speculations is helping her current legal case or her mental health. LEAVE HER ALONE!

[sirlolsworthy]

*Fans say she didn't actually write this Instagram post herself because she wouldn't feel this way if she had actually watched the documentary. They think her team wants the fans to think the documentary actually hurt, not helped, her.

eh, idk about that. I can see why she would feel a way about it.
We'll see how long her post stays up I guess, that'll tell us if her team approves of it or not

[okwerq]

the caption says she didn't watch it but was embarrassed by what she did see

which is understandable tbh like hte documentary was on her side yes but it's also probably dredging up old trauma for her

[thetopshop]

I also feel like despite what the media and GP have done to her, Britney hates seeing herself as a victim.
The documentary made it sound like we broke her and she cowered, when we see that she has actually stopped giving a fuck about public opinion, and she's still down to fight her father in court 13 years after he put her in a conservatorship.

[slaughtermatic]

i always base my idea of her on the fact that she passed up a hit song about that snake justin while he built a career airing their shit out. she seems like a real person with real feelings. im sure she was mortified. i would be. her legacy is becoming sadder and sadder.

[ladychips]

interesting song choice

[mary_pickforded]

Not that I doubt she was embarrassed because it is embarrassing to have your shit aired out in public like that, but I really do wonder how much of her posts are products of hers vs. her team. Regardless, I hope she knows how loved and supported she is.

[tigirah]

Ia. Tonally from hearing how she speaks, this matches imo.

Unless her team tell her things she specifically can or cannot mention, I do think she wrote it personally.

[umilicious]

A big part about being a ghostwriter is adopting a lot of the same habits that the original person has in order to make it sound more like them. I used to do a lot of ghostwriting at my last job, and I'd change up my style depending on who was sending it. I'd use "do not/cannot" instead of "don't/can't" for our project manager, and I'd amp up the formality and use slightly longer paragraphs for our executive. Their styles sucked, but nobody would believe that they sent it if it was too polished. It's kind of like being a profiler, in a sense.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure half of ONTD could spoof a celebrity's social media account, so it's plausible that it's not coming from her. I think it's more likely that it is her, because even if the documentary didn't intend to make her feel embarrassed, I can see how she would feel that way. It would be bad enough if, say, my coworkers watched a presentation on my mental health struggles -- I can't imagine how it would feel for it to be world news.