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'I cried for two weeks': Britney Spears responds to documentary about her life

Singer said that she was ‘embarrassed by the light’ in which Framing Britney Spears cast her

Britney Spears said she “cried for two weeks” after watching part of a high-profile documentary that explored her career.

Framing Britney Spears premiered in February and examined the pop superstar’s rise to the summit of the music industry, her treatment at the hands of the tabloid media, her involuntary commitment to a psychiatric ward in 2008, and the subsequent conservatorship (an “imposed power-of-attorney-on-steroids”) given to her father that has had him oversee her finances and personal affairs since 2008.

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