Britney Spears Has A Message For Diane Sawyer: 'Do We Dare Forget'

By Hayden Brooks

December 14, 2021

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Back in 2004, Diane Sawyer grilled Britney Spears in a now-infamous interview, where the entertainer broke down in tears.

In light of her newfound freedom from her almost 14-year conservatorship, the pop titan, 40, reflected on the folks, including Sawyer, that have done her wrong. "Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago?" Spears told her followers about the ABC interview in a since-deleted post. "What was with the 'You're in the wrong' approach?? Geeze... and making me cry???"

“Seriously though... I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone... my manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television and she asked if I had a shopping problem!!! when did I have a shopping problem?” she continued.

In case you don’t remember, Sawyer asked Spears if her shopping habits were “an addiction” and pressured her in to talk about her 2002 breakup from Justin Timberlake, a moment that the singer said left her “in shock” and how she "never spoke to anyone for a very long time."

"Something I never shared when I had that break up years ago was that I couldn't talk afterward," she wrote in the lengthy post. “Pretty lame of my dad and three men to show up at my door when I could hardly speak... two days later they put Diane Sawyer in my living room... they forced me to talk!"

Talk of Sawyer was mixed into Spears’ reflections about having access to her hard-earned cash after a judge ruled that she’d finally be allowed to control her finances after 14 years. "I'm more embarrassed for my family for coding the fact that i wasn't allowed to have cash for so long when I worked my little ass off for them," she wrote. "I'm embarrassed for the state of California for permitting my father to have me work as hard as he worked me all those years and never seeing a dime."

Elsewhere in the post, Spears said that there isn't a day where she doesn't "count my blessings" as her legal arrangement has ended. "I know I'm not playing in huge arenas with my loud band anymore but I will be honest and say life on the road is hard!! My first three years in the biz and on the road were great but I'll be completely honest and say that after those three tours and the pace I was going... I don't think I ever want to do it again," she wrote. "I hated it."

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