A clip of Britney Spears speaking about her conservatorship for the first time in a television interview has been discovered eight years later.
When the pop princess appeared on Britain’s “The Jonathan Ross Show” in 2016 to promote her album “Glory,” she opened up about the restrictive legal regime while explaining how it often hindered her creative process.
However, Spears’ team did not allow her to publicly discuss her conservatorship at the time, so her comments during the taping were cut from the final episode.
But the never-before-seen footage was finally broadcast on Saturday during an ITV special looking back at memorable moments from the long-running talk show.
On “Special Guest,” host Jonathan Ross asked Spears, “The new album, you’re more involved musically, I understand, than the previous ones?” So you have taken control. Do you have more control over your music than before? Why did it take you so long? Why did you wait until now to do it?
The “Toxic” singer, then 34, hesitantly responded, “Well, uh, there’s a lot of reasons, but I won’t go into the whole story. »
Ross interrupted Spears to remind her that viewers knew “a lot” of her history, which included a public breakup in 2007, so she didn’t “need to revisit” something she didn’t relate to. didn’t feel comfortable.
Looking more relaxed, the Grammy winner explained: “Since the conservatorship…I felt like a lot of things were planned for me and, you know, I was being told what to do. And I was just like, for that [album]I want to make it my baby, and I want to make it myself, and I’ve been very strategic in how I’ve done it, and, uh, yeah, that’s why it means so much to me.
The TV presenter then asked Spears if she was “happy” and in a “good place”, to which she smiled and replied: “Yes, sir.”
Fans have been yearning to see the “Jonathan Ross Show” music video ever since a member of the studio audience revealed on Twitter at the time that the “Gimme More” singer, now 42, had made a rare comment on his guardianship during the filming of the session.
Spears herself reflected on the deleted television segment in her 2023 memoir, “The Woman in Me.”
“I even mentioned conservatorship on a talk show in 2016, but somehow that part of the interview didn’t make it,” she wrote. “Eh. How interesting.
The “Crossroads” star only publicly mentioned her conservatorship again in 2021, when she described her situation as “abusive” during a public hearing, claiming that her estranged father, Jamie Spears, was in in charge of his personal and financial affairs for 13 years. , was too controlling.
A Los Angeles judge suspended Jamie as his daughter’s conservator three months later before terminating the conservatorship altogether.
ITV did not immediately respond to Page Six’s request for comment on its decision to broadcast the previously unseen footage.
