[UPDATED] CNN Special Report – Toxic: Britney Spears’ Battle For Freedom – DISCUSSION THREAD

[London Girl 98]

CNN Special Report
TOXIC: BRITNEY SPEARS' BATTLE FOR FREEDOM
— DISCUSSION THREAD —

Reported by CNN Anchor Alisyn Camerota and CNN Entertainment Reporter Chloe Melas

Airing days before the court hearing that will decide the fate of Spears’ conservatorship, TOXIC: BRITNEY SPEARS’ BATTLE FOR FREEDOM, features an array of voices, from lawmakers proposing protections for those under conservatorships and actors familiar with the scrutiny of Hollywood, to expert attorneys and the staff closest to Spears over the years. The report also examines critical conversations around tabloid culture, mental health, and the treatment of women in media sparked by Spears’ battle.

The special includes interviews with actors Mischa Barton and Rosie O’Donnell; House Representatives Charlie Crist (D-FL) and Nancy Mace (R-SC); the founders of the #FreeBritney movement; conservator expert attorney Lisa MacCarley; award-winning journalists Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino; and several team members who were close to Spears from the beginning of her career through the start of her conservatorship.

More info : https://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2021/09/20/cnn-special-report-toxic-britney-spears-battle-for-freedom/

UPDATE :

5 revelations from CNN's Britney Spears special report

• Former employee says Britney's life was heavily controlled

After the conservatorship was put into place in 2008, Dan George was hired to manage the promotional tour for Spears' album "Circus." He said that during the six months he worked with Spears, "She could only read Christian books ... Her phone was monitored." [...]

• Rosie O'Donnell tried to try reach Spears over the years

"I've reached out to her over the years, we haven't connected, I always send notes. I heard sometimes when she would go to the Four Seasons they would say she's coming to the Four Seasons and I would go down to the spa to see if I could bump into her, you know, to say, hey, kid, how you doing? You know, I just love her," O'Donnell said. [...]

• Britney Spears blames her former business manager Lou M Taylor for her conservatorship

Sources close to Spears told CNN that she blames Lou Taylor, her former business manager who resigned last year, for many of the issues surrounding the conservatorship. One source said, "Britney is aware and angered by the control exercised over her by Lou Taylor and her company which reaped millions of dollars from her estate."
A lawyer for Taylor and her company Tri-Star told CNN in part, "Ms. Taylor was not involved in the creation of a conservatorship."
Adding they were paid, "an industry-standard percentage" as Spears' business manager and they have "nothing but fondness for Britney Spears and are proud to have served her faithfully for 12 years."

• Inside the 911 calls ahead of testimony by Spears in June

Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino reported that hours before Spears' bombshell testimony on June 23, the singer went to the police station near her home. CNN has learned that Spears dialed 911 twice from a lobby phone at the station and reported herself a victim of conservatorship abuse. Shortly after, officers met with the singer at her home.
"She wanted to begin to establish that she believed something illegal was happening and indeed that is what she said the next day, that she felt people involved in maintaining this conservatorship should go to jail," Farrow told CNN.

• Spears' record label was not happy with 1999 Rolling Stone cover

The pop star's former publicist, Rey Roldan told CNN that when he was managing publicity for Spears at Jive Records, the label was concerned when they first saw Spears, who was 17 at the time, pictured in a bra on the 1999 cover of Rolling Stone. [...]

Source : https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/26/entertainment/britney-spears-cnn-special-report/index.html

#FreeBritney

[Markoct]

In conculsion; moday is sunday 

[LordofTheMoodRing]

Feel like its Pokemon. Gotta watch em All lol. I still have to see NYT, been a WerkBetch all week 

[Freakshow__]

Thanks for the streaming link. Cannot wait. 

[Moscow]

Monday 5:30 A.M for me 

I will be watching it at my office 

[gapeach704]

I hope this doesn’t disappoint. I moved a date for this… don’t make me regret it CNN 

[Z-dawg]

When I saw Ronan Farrow is involved I got a bit more confident about this one. I wonder what they unearthed besides the Christian books thing. I don’t have high expectations, so if there’s anything, it’ll be a bonus 🙌🏻😎

[hallucinate]

Ew Nancy Mace is a homophobe 🤢

[NostalgiaAct]

Oh, great! It won’t be too late for me to watch it today 

Anyway I don’t know what to expect from this. I don’t know basically anyone that is featured 

Do you guys think this will be pro Britney and also respectful towards her? 

[dfffff]

 

[dfffff]

42 minutes ago, NostalgiaAct said:

Oh, great! It won’t be too late for me to watch it today 

Anyway I don’t know what to expect from this. I don’t know basically anyone that is featured 

Do you guys think this will be pro Britney and also respectful towards her? 

Definitely, this documentary will be pro Britney

[Slave4Brit88]

Thank you! Interesting/kinda random guests to appear. I love the way Rosie O’Donnell has been speaking up for Britney, I always thought she seemed to genuinely care about her in a motherly way. Mischa is so random to appear?! I’m interested in what she’ll say, I don’t even remember ever seeing a pic of them together. I love Mischa back in The OC days and still root for her so I hope she’s saying #FreeBritney!

[briprin1]

7 minutes ago, Slave4Brit88 said:

Thank you! Interesting/kinda random guests to appear. I love the way Rosie O’Donnell has been speaking up for Britney, I always thought she seemed to genuinely care about her in a motherly way. Mischa is so random to appear?! I’m interested in what she’ll say, I don’t even remember ever seeing a pic of them together. I love Mischa back in The OC days and still root for her so I hope she’s saying #FreeBritney!

I think Mischa is involved because she attributes press and paparazzi as a main reason she has PTSD. So I guess she’ll be involved in that side of everything.

[GirlOnTheMoon]

4 minutes ago, Qweef said:

I think Mischa is involved because she attributes press and paparazzi as a main reason she has PTSD. So I guess she’ll be involved in that side of everything.

I love Mischa since The OC, but I hope this documentary doesn't use paparazzi and press scrutiny as a reason of why Britney needed the conservatorship at that time. 

[NewDisplayName]

42 minutes ago, dfffff said:

 

Why I don’t like her?!

wasnt she who praised Jamie and was shady towards Britney or I’m mistaken? 
 

Spoiler

last weeks she is trying to seem pro-Britney but still

 

[warioaddams]

I'm still in shock after Controling Britney, so let's see what happens with this one.

 

[HeySister]

5 hours ago, dfffff said:

 

I'm so happy she redeemed herself, I wonder what finally made her realise TeamCON were frauds, given she was so anti the movement to begin with 

Spoiler

Sorry for sending you snotty hate comments on Twitter about being Jamie's bish, Chloe 

 

[G-unit]

I’m gonna watch this because I wanna know what they say, but I don’t, for a SECOND, trust this sk@ nky-a55 CHLOE….we might need to prepare ourselves to drag her online afterwards because she is shady AF according to TSW’s account of being interviewed by her and the articles she used to write that were pro-team Con.

[rosenotes]

Anyone know where we could stream this?

[London Girl 98]

30 minutes ago, rosenotes said:

Anyone know where we could stream this?

There is 2 streaming links on the 1st post.