Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jameela Jamell. Have you seen the Britney Spears documentary yet?

Because I can't get it out of my head. I also then went further into a rabbit hole of how horrendously we treat women in the public eye and watch the Paris Hilton documentary.

Also extraordinary, both quite triggering, both deeply upsetting, both likely to send you down a

just a thought toilet of every bad thought you've ever had about a woman in the public eye. Any time you've ever

taken it as gospel that they are difficult or annoying or did something wrong or behaved badly,

it's so frustrating to see how heavily we were indoctrinated and how little we knew how much they were being harassed.

It's just unimaginable that existence. And so, you know, I talk about this a lot on my Instagram. In fact, if you go onto my Instagram homepage, there's a highlight,

sort of section on my gram of stories called gaslighting where over the last year I've been documenting not only how I've been

harassed or taken out of context and framed to make me look unlikeable or vacuous or ignorant or problematic.

But I've also chosen lots of other different women in the public eye who've also received similar treatment and broken down.

The system, the perfect system of build her up, build her up, build her up, specifically just to rip her down.

Throw her onto a pedestal that is secretly a trap door that will open into a gutter where we will then laugh and point at her and call her a liar

for not having been the saint that we told her that she was. And I'm talking about us as a society, not all of us have participated in the downfall of each of these women,

but in some ways we have enabled it by the, I guess the complicity of our silence. And many of those cases, it's because we didn't understand,

we didn't know and really until it all happened to me, I didn't know. And having been in the belly of the beast, obviously I've never experienced anything.

It's vaguely similar to what Brittany had or Paris. I can say even from my vantage point of what happened to me with the media, I now get it, I understand how the machine works.

And it's why I go on about it all the time. But if you haven't seen those documentaries, I highly recommend them. They are harrowing, but they are excellent.

And they've really, really, really woken everyone up about the things that are enabled in the press in the media, the way that we are.

Just fine with categorizing, diagnosing the mental health of women in the public eye and then ridiculing them over it. And feeling as though, because someone has power or money or privilege or platform, they now owe you their literal life.

That they are just it's open season. They they have money, therefore it's okay to be owned forever by the public. They cannot leave the house on the own. I can't, I just can't.

Imagine having been 16 and going through everything that happened to her. To Brittany in particular, but so many of these women.

And I urge you after looking at my Instagram stories, the highlight called gaslighting to think about any woman in the past that you've ever thought, I just don't like her, I don't know why I just don't like her.

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