Britney Spears Slams “Insulting” Documentaries About Her in Deleted Instagram Post

If you’ve watched either of the 2021 documentaries about Britney Spears‘ life, Hulu’s Framing Britney Spears or Netflix’s Britney Vs. Spears, you would know that there are hundreds, if not thousands of Britney fans and supporters who advocated for the end of her conservatorship for several years. Both documentaries exposed many people in Britney’s inner circle, especially her father Jamie who was her conservator for 13 years, for taking advantage of her and controlling every aspect of her life and finances. And in late 2021, just months after these films were released, her conservatorship ended.

While the timing makes it seem like the films brought awareness to her plight and might have helped her get out of the situation, Britney herself wrote a long Instagram post criticizing the films. In the post, she revealed that it was insulting that the media gave so much credit to the documentaries rather her own court testimony for releasing her from the conservatorship, and feels embarrassed by how many films there were on the subject.

She wrote, “Come on seriously is it honestly legal to do that many documentaries about someone without their blessing at all ??! Seriously though, think about it … I’ve never seen that many documentaries done on a person … Will Smith, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lopez. Not one person on the face of this earth would people — a network, TV production or anyone for that matter — dig up that much negative footage and do hour specials claiming it’s ‘HELPING ME.’ REALLY ??? It was the most insulting thing I ever saw in my life and every person I have spoken to has said it’s why the conservatorship ended … REALLY ???”

She continued, “I just want to know how are all these people saying it helped me when I feel by with just my mouth and my WORD and what I said in my testimony to the judge. THAT said it all… that would be ENOUGH. But not in America !! Every person jumps on board with these heartbreaking documentaries and forget the 13 years in my conservatorship.. .. making up for some of my past they literally have no remorse at all. They have always treated me like that, literally that’s exactly what my family did to me… It’s so insulting it’s not even funny. And no a**hole, my legs look nothing like that !! America … this nation has been one thing and one thing only to me — a bully.”

Spears has since deleted the post, but this isn’t the first time she has been critical of the docs. In March 2021, Spears wrote, and then deleted, an Instagram post about Framing Britney Spears, which said, “I didn’t watch the documentary but from what I did see of it I was embarrassed by the light they put me in I cried for two weeks and well …. I still cry sometimes !!!!”