Britney Spears is setting the record straight. In a since-deleted December 13 Instagram post, the pop star opened up about her now-infamous 2003 \u2026<\/b>
\nBritney Spears is setting the record straight. In a since-deleted December 13 Instagram post, the pop star opened up about her now-infamous 2003 interview with ABC \u2018s Diane Sawyer. As Spears revealed on Instagram, after she and Timberlake broke up in 2002, she barely left her apartment. Therefore, she wasn\u2019t prepared for Sawyers to enter her home and ask such personal questions. During the 45-minute interview, Sawyer made the then 22-year-old Spears cry; Sawyer mercilessly pried about topics ranging from her sex life to her alleged shopping problem, and even asked her to react to the then-first lady of Maryland\u2019s statement that she wanted to shoot her. \u201cDo we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago?\u201d she wrote (per People). \u201cWhat was with the \u2018You\u2019re in the wrong approach?? Geeze\u2026 and making me cry???\u201d Spears added: \u201cSeriously though\u2026 I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone\u2026 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?\u201d At one point in the primetime special, Sawyer prodded Spears about her 2002 breakup with Justin Timberlake. While Spears had largely kept to herself after their split, Timberlake spoke openly about their breakup and even implied that she cheated on him in his \u201c Cry Me a River \u201d music video. \u201cYou broke his heart,\u201d Sawyers told Spears at the time. \u201cYou did something that caused so much pain, so much suffering. What did you do?\u201d (You can watch the complete interview below.) In her Instagram post, Spears criticized her father, Jamie Spears, for \u201c[forcing] me to talk\u201d to Sawyer, given that she\u2019d hardly been able to speak after her breakup. \u201cI was a baby,\u201d she added. Over the course of 2021, numerous female stars have opened up about the ways in which they felt unprotected by the press as young women. Last week, Brooke Shields addressed her infamous 1981 interview with Barbara Walters, which occurred shortly after her controversial 1980 Calvin Klein jeans campaign kicked off. Although Shields was only 15, Walters asked her a number of invasive questions about her sexual history. \u201cIt\u2019s practically criminal,\u201d Shields said during an appearance on the December 6 episode of Dax Shepard and Monica Padman\u2019s Armchair Expert podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s not journalism.\u201d<\/p>\n