In 2016, Britney Spears appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show to discuss her album Glory.
During the interview, host Jonathan Ross inquired, “The new album, you are more involved in this musically, I understand, than previous ones? So you’ve taken control. You’re more in control of your music than before? Why did it take you so long? Why did you wait ’til now to do it?”
At that time under conservatorship, Britney replied, “Well, um, there’s a lot of reasons, but I won’t get into the whole story. Since the conservatorship … I felt like a lot of the things were planned for me to do and, you know, being told what to do. And I was just like, for this [album], I want to make it my baby, and I want to do it myself, and I was very strategic about the way I did it, and, um, yeah, that’s why it means so much to me.”
The interview segment gained renewed attention in 2024. She also alluded to the conversation in her memoir, The Woman in Me, noting she referenced the conservatorship during a 2016 talk show, but that segment “didn’t make it to the air.”
“Huh. How interesting,” she penned in the book.
