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A 2016 clip of Britney Spears discussing her conservatorship in a TV interview with Jonathan Ross has finally been uncovered.
Spears, 42, who had appeared on the British show to plug her album Glory, made mention of the legal arrangement when explaining her creative process.
'I'm in a conservatorship. It's the third year of me being under that and I felt like a lot of the things were planned for me to do and I was like, for this [album], I want to make it my baby,' the pop star expressed at the time.
She continued, 'I was very strategic about the way that I did it and that's why it means so much to me.'
Britney's comments were scrapped from the final edit of the episode, but have now been published - eight years later and three years after the conservatorship was lifted on November 12 2021.
A 2016 clip of Britney Spears discussing her conservatorship in a TV interview with Jonathan Ross has finally been uncovered; pictured in 2014
Spears, 42, who had appeared on the British show to plug her album Glory, made mention of the legal arrangement when explaining her creative process
The previously unaired outtake was broadcast on Saturday during an ITV retrospective of The Jonathan Ross Show.
The recording showed Ross asking Spears, '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?'
A then-34-year-old Britney began her answer, 'Well, um, there’s a lot of reasons, but I won’t get into the whole story.'
Jonathan then asked the performer if she was 'happy' and in a 'good place,' as she affirmed, 'Yes, sir.'
An audience member who witnessed the interview live previously revealed online that the Slave 4 U hitmaker had made a comment about the conservatorship, which was under the authority of her father Jamie Spears, now 72.
Spears also mentioned a portion of the interview being cut in her best-selling 2023 memoir The Woman in Me.
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'I'm in a conservatorship. It's the third year of me being under that and I felt like a lot of the things were planned for me to do and I was like, for this [album], I want to make it my baby,' the pop star expressed at the time
Britney's father Jamie Spears, 72, controlled her finances, career and personal life for 13 years under the court-appointed conservatorship; pictured in a 2015 photo shared on Instagram
November 12 2021 became known as 'Free Britney Day' after the star was finally freed from the conservatorship
She wrote in the tell-all, 'I even mentioned the conservatorship on a talk show in 2016, but somehow, that part of the interview didn’t make it to the air. Huh. How interesting.'
During her conservatorship, Britney's team prevented her from speaking out publicly about the legal arrangement, according to Page Six.
Insiders told The Sun last year that Britney's team was stunned when she spoke out during the interview as her words sparked a series of meetings at ITV.
They told the publication: 'Everyone was shocked — the Conservatorship was always there but never spoken about. The fact Britney raised it on one of the biggest shows in the UK set off alarm bells.'
A series of meetings followed as the teams brainstormed how to control the situation, which resulted in a decision not to air the comments.
'There was a lot of back and forth but ultimately ITV played ball and removed all mention of the Conservatorship,' the sources revealed.
Britney regained control of her multimillion-dollar fortune as well as her career and personal freedom when the guardianship was terminated in November 2021.
Her father has insisted the legal arrangement was to protect her wellbeing, but the singer described it as 'abusive' in a bombshell 2021 court appearance.
Earlier this month Spears took to Instagram to talk about how she's moving forward now that she's regained her autonomy.
She wrote in a caption: 'I want to find my real body... the one that would never do something if I didn't want to.'
The star continued: 'The healing starts with the mind first !!! I know at one point in my life it literally wasn't even my body just from everything it was forced to do, so many things I disagreed with. It was humiliating so now I definitely feel a spiritual transformation.'
