Britney Spears Gets Her Voice Back

Britney Spears’ heartbreaking testimony shows the importance of letting mentally ill people speak for themselves.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
5 min readJun 24, 2021

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#FreeBritney protesters. Their signs are very pink.
It takes thousands of people screaming for Britney before Britney herself can be heard at all. Photo from Ringo Chiu on Shutterstock.

At the end of the day, no matter how much I thought I knew about Britney Spears, I couldn’t understand how much pain she was in until I heard her tell her own story.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.