Do Britney's Fans Need to Leave Her Alone?

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4 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Even though she’s a #FreedBritney, it doesn’t always feel that way. Last week, Britney Spears got a surprise visit from a police officer who was sent to her home after fans demanded that law enforcement conduct a wellness check on the Princess of Pop. Their concern over the “Gimme More” singer kicked into high gear after she posted some cryptic stuff to her Instagram before deleting her profile entirely. But now Britney is saying that her fans have gone too far and is respectfully asking for them to back off. So is it time for the Britney army to “stan” down?

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0:00.0	So, Arisha, we obviously all go through rough patches. So to our friends, and when that happens, it can be hard to know when or how to help them.
0:16.6	Like you and I were just talking about this not long ago, like, when somebody's crying and
0:20.8	sad, I don't know what to do with my hands.
0:26.2	That is weird that we were really just talking about this.
0:28.1	Yeah.
0:29.1	Yeah, it is hard.
0:29.7	I mean I think that I've gotten to the place where it's just like making sure that they know that you're there
0:34.8	to help however they need but yeah also giving them the space to like feel whatever they're
0:39.8	feeling right you guys learned it here first.
0:43.0	So even if you mean well when you're trying to help somebody that you care about,
0:48.0	it doesn't always go as planned.
0:50.0	Sometimes, you know, your best intentions can do more harm than good.
0:54.0	And that might be exactly what's happening now in the extremely unique dynamic between
0:59.2	Brittany Spears and her fans.
1:00.8	Honestly, I think they're going to write textbooks about this dynamic because it is so unique.
1:06.8	So different.
1:07.8	Yeah.
1:09.8	But yeah, these fans, I'm going to use fans in quotes.
1:12.7	They've been so concerned about Brittany
1:15.2	that they're getting the police involved.
1:17.7	And Brittany wants no part of that.
1:20.1	Who would?
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