Britney Spears has reportedly accused ITV of silencing her when she tried to speak publicly about her 13-year conservatorship back in 2016.
The singer’s upcoming book, The Woman In Me, sees her take aim at her team and an unnamed TV channel as she accuses them of stopping her from speaking out during the troubling time.
She writes: ‘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.’
However, The Sun have claimed ITV are the channel in question, and Britney is referring an incident which occurred during her appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2016.
The appearance is her last sit down interview to date, and Britney, 41, revealed she repeatedly mentioned the legal hold she was under, however the comments never made it to air.
Shock: Britney Spears has accused ITV’s Jonathan Ross Show of silencing her during her 13 year conservatorship, The Sun has reported (Britney pictured on the show in 2016)
The truth: Jonathan and Britney looked to be having a great time on the show, however in unaired clips the singer reportedly spoke out about her censorship
Chatting with Jonathan, Britney told the host that her ninth album Glory was ‘her baby’ as when she was making her previous albums she couldn’t do what she wanted musically due to the conservatorship.
Instead of asking about the situation, the TV presenter moved swiftly on and didn’t dwell on the details of the conservatorship.
According to a member of the audience, Britney stated: ‘I have this Conservatorship for years and I felt like a lot of decisions were made for me so I wanted this to be my baby and I’ve been really strategic about it.’
In the new book, Britney details how her father ‘controlled her body and her money’ and ‘hurt’ her with ‘fat’ jibes.
In excerpts obtained by People, the star opened up about the unrelenting control her family had over her which, looking back, makes her ‘feel sick.’
Insiders told The Sun that Britney were stunned at the time 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.’
Concealed: The appearance is her last sit down interview to date, and Britney, 41, revealed she repeatedly mentioned the legal hold she was under, however the comments never made it to air
Revealing all: The singer’s upcoming book, The Woman In Me, sees the Toxic hitmaker take aim at her team and an unnamed TV channel as she accuses them of stopping her for speaking out during the troubling time
A cry for help: Britney stated during the interview: ‘I have this Conservatorship for years and I felt like a lot of decisions were made for me so I wanted this to be my baby and I’ve been really strategic about it’
What then proceeded was a series of meetings as the teams decided how to control the situation and they decided 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.’
Jonathan Ross has never alluded to what was kept hidden from the interview.
MailOnline have contacted ITV for comment.
In the upcoming release, Britney writes: ‘I’d been eyeballed so much growing up. I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.
‘But under the conservatorship I was made to understand that those days were now over. I had to grow my hair out and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and take whatever medication they told me to take.
‘If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.’
She continued: ‘Feeling like you’re never good enough is a soul-crushing state of being for a child. He’d drummed that message into me as a girl, and even after I’d accomplished so much, he was continuing to do that to me.
‘I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself.’
Speaking out: The singer is set to hit out at 71-year-old dad Jamie in her explosive new memoir, titled The Woman In Me, which is set to be released later this month