Britney Spears has hit out at “incredibly cruel” paparazzi in a video clip shared to mark her 43rd birthday.
rolling stone reported that yesterday (December 2) marked both the end of the six-month waiting period following her divorce from Sam Asghari and her 43rd birthday. Revue PEOPLE then reported that Spears was vacationing in Mexico to celebrate the latter occasion, as the pop star has not publicly addressed the divorce waiting period.
Now, in a clip shared to Instagram, Spears has taken issue with photos paparazzi photographers took of her while she was in Mexico.
“It really hurts me that the paparazzi make it look like I'm wearing a White Jason mask,” Spears said, referring to the Friday the 13th character.
“That doesn’t even sound like me.” They were always incredibly cruel to me…as they illustrated to me. I know I'm not perfect at all, but some things are extremely mean and that's why I moved to Mexico.
Spears, who said she would “never go back to the music industry”, has been enjoying her freedom after settling her high-profile conservatorship battle with her father Jamie – however, it would also have left her with her $2 million legal bill.
The “Toxic” singer repeatedly accused her family members of wrongdoing during her conservatorship, which lasted 13 years and finally ended in November 2021, following the widespread #FreeBritney movement.
She also wrote about the circumstances in her memoir The woman in me. “I became a robot. But not just a robot – a kind of robot child. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote in one passage (via LBC).
“Guardianship stripped me of my femininity and made me a child. I became more of an entity than a person on stage. I had always felt music in my bones and in my blood; they stole that from me… The woman in me has been demeaned for a long time. They wanted me to be wild on stage, like they told me, and be a robot the rest of the time.
Recently, a Spears biopic based on The woman in me was in development under Wicked director Jon M Chu.
“In that initial conception, I think a lot of it depends on how we treat people, young people, the stars that we think we own, women, mothers,” he said.
Although the project had already been announced, Spears herself caused confusion in September when she appeared to imply that the “secret project” she was working on with Chu was not in fact a biopic of her life, but a “fictitious musical”.
