March 6, 2026 • 17 mins
The headlines are everywhere about 44-year-old Britney Spears arrested on suspicion of DUI after police say the pop star was driving erratically and at high speed. Since being released, Britney has deactivated her instagram account and released a statement through her reps, that is gives fans reason to believe she may soon be getting the help she needs.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey there, everybody. It is Friday, March sixth. You've probably
seen the headlines by now Britney Spears has been arrested
for in suspicion of Dui. With that, we want to
welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJ that
frankly we were reluctant to do for a number of reasons,
(00:22):
but rogue. She's a big star. This is a big deal.
But man it sucks because, yes, you can argue she
brought on herself, but this is going to be another
round of headlines and everybody talking about her, what she
should do, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, I think, look, we hesitated because we don't want
to pile on. This is clearly a woman who is
celebrated and loved. Hell I listened to her music all
the time, especially when I'm running. She has been a
part of our lives for as long as most of
us can remember, and we have watched her decline, spiral,
(01:02):
have problems, and I feel like most people are rooting
for her. We want the best for her, We want
her to make more music, to feel her own strength
and her own power. She's been through so much, and
to me, the one thing that really stood out that
could be a positive note in all of these negative
headlines she has suffered through for the past two decades.
(01:27):
I loved this line. We'll read her full statement, but
I loved this line. Hopefully this can be the first
step in long overdue change that needs to occur in
Britney's life. And I do feel like from what I've
seen online, she has a huge fan base that is
(01:47):
hoping for the best and rooting her on. But this
is a tough, tough situation and thankfully no one got hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You again, if you haven't gone beyond the headlines, we
will tell you what happened. This is reportedly on Wednesday
evening out in Los Angeles in southern California, of course,
not too far from where she has a home in
Thousand Oaks. It's out there, people are aware of this.
But the report was of a black BMW driving erradically
and at high speeds. Police were able to catch up
(02:18):
with his vehicle. She did pull over. She was given
a field sobriety test that apparently the officer thought she failed.
She was taken to jail. She was booked at three am.
She was out by six am, but that is the story.
We have not heard directly from her short of at
least we see a move she has made. And I
don't keep up with it rogues, but a lot of
(02:39):
people are familiar with their Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yes I am among her millions and millions of followers,
but yes, she has deactivated her Instagram account. She did
that on Thursday, and look, I think that's also a
positive sign. A lot of people have only been keeping
tabs on Britney Spears over these past few years since
she was when since that conservatorship was removed by a
(03:04):
judge in twenty twenty one, So for the past five
years or so, we have been watching her basically through
her Instagram feed, and frankly, a lot of what we
see on that Instagram feed has been concerning, deeply concerning,
not just in the videos she's posted, but even in
some of the captions where she's gone after family members
and friends and had kind of a stream of consciousness
(03:26):
type of caption. She's gone through a messy divorce online,
so we've only really been able to gauge how she's
doing based on her Instagram account, and frankly, she's it's
been tough to watch at times.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I think. But then I have other people coming to
me and said, oh my goodness, you've got to follow Brittany,
and I think robes and again we want to say
she's an adult, and she's responsible for her action. She's
a mother, all right, to two boys. We hope so
many people are point if over the years, pointed to
(04:01):
you should check it out, not because it's entertaining, not
because it's fun, but because they think it's so disturbing
that you'll be entertained by how ridiculous it is. It's
almost making fun of her, is how I have been
told to follow her. It's not described as like it's
our entertainment. We are watching this play out, and I
(04:25):
think a lot of folks have used it as their entertainment.
It's over the years, I'm not suggesting you, but you
know what I'm saying. Everybody who has suggested I follow her,
we're not doing it for a positive reason. They oh,
you got to check this out. It's crazy, it's wild,
you gotta see it. It wasn't in a positive light,
is what I'm saying. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I would say I would liken it to people watching
a train wreck. People would say that that has been
what they have seen over the past several years. Because
this is Brittany, it's her, it's her Instagram. She can
do what she wants. But if you haven't followed her. Basically,
she has a series or she had because again that
account has been dia debated, but she's had a series
(05:02):
of of she is dancing by herself a lot of times.
She's barely clothed. Sometimes she's rolling around the beach with
no clothing and she has her nipples exposed, and she
puts stars or hearts to cover anything so it won't
be indecent. But she looks out of control, her makeup lodged,
et cetera. Like she just looks like a wreck.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I don't know how much. I don't follow it,
so I can't speak on it. It sounds like a
lot of stuff I see on social media. It sounds
performative by some artists. Again, I understand that some people
are saying this is different, but I don't know. We
don't hear her explain her actions. We don't hear any
of that. So all of this stuff and we don't
hear from Britain. Whend was the memoir two three years
(05:44):
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I believe she put out her memoir, so.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
She's I don't remember her doing necessarily rounds of interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
She did not know, she did not no, not at all,
so we.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Don't hear from her at all. And then the time
we hear from her and she's in the headline has
to do with the DUI. Yes, people are going to
speak and speculate and try to put things together, but
Robes this I hate she's going through it again. I
am a huge Britney Spears fan, and I am just
I'm devastated at the life. I have seen her live
(06:17):
from the moment I saw that first video of her
dancing around bad past high school lockers. Right, That's how
we got interested. I did it again, and she has that.
The moments of victory of us celebrating her in the
past several years have been just few and far between.
(06:38):
She should be at every Grammy Award. She should be
at every ward. She is a a an icon an,
iconic royalty type figure there and she's just forty four.
I know she.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I mean, she came up on the Disney Channel with
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. She was a part of
that group and she was wildly talent. My god. I
mean to the fact that her music still still lands,
still works, still gets me moving, gets me smiling. How
you know what her music You can poo poo it
all you want and say she sounds auto tuned and
(07:13):
her voice isn't that great whatever. That girl could dance,
that girl could perform, that girl could entertain, And every
time I hear her music, I feel joy.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's one of the best we've ever seen in our lifetimes.
She absolutely is like it, love it. She was a
whole part of that new poppy. I guess that that
that pop got a little cuter, right, It was the
whole era of pop, yes, is that yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean that's what I've always heard it referred to.
And you know what, I am on abashedly a huge
fan of it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The thing is, we all are put on a Britney
Spears song today, it works, put on a Backstreet Boy song,
it works today. That was that era, yep, and she
was the queen of it. Emerald. It just devastating that
we continue to watch this person who played a role
in all of our lives with her music. In Romese,
we want to root We're always rooting for, but we don't.
(08:04):
We rarely have something to celebrate for. We're always pulling
for we are, but there's not It doesn't seem to
be victories. The conservatorship, that of course, was a big deal.
She got out of what the Free Britney movement.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The Free Britney movement, she actually yes, I didn't realize
how long it had lasted, but her father sought that
out in two thousand and six and it ended in
twenty twenty one, so thirteen years she was under a conservatorship.
And look, she has just sold I believe, rights to
her music. But she has hinted, certainly in her memoir
that she was going to start creating more music. I
(08:39):
think there would be nothing better than to see her
put Look, she is a creative force, and to see
her be able to put that energy and to put
some of that genius into new music, into art, that
would be the best case scenario. But I think a
lot of folks just realized from the outside looking in, look,
we don't have any sort of internal knowledge, but from
(09:00):
the outside looking in, just from what we've been given
a window into her world that she's put out there
on social media, it does look deeply concerning, and then
couple that with the fact that you know she's estranged
from her father, from her mother, from her sister. You know,
you wonder when you don't have family, people who are
supposed to love you no matter what, around you, because
you don't trust them. And whether they earned that or not,
(09:21):
that's not for me to say, but that also just
makes your heart go out to her because who is
there for her? Who is her safe space? Who is
her cushion? Everyone needs one?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, we are being told that family is on the way.
Stay here. We'll let you hear the statement from her
own people that seems to suggest a change is coming.
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ.
We're talking about the latest unfortunate headline for pop superstar
Britney Spears. She has been arrested, booked, and released on
suspicion of d UI after police pulled her over. They
say she was erratic in her driving, She was driving
at a high speed, they pulled her over. They say
(10:14):
she failed US a field sobriety test and so charges
are pending. But we did get a statement from her
people that actually provides a glimmer of hope. I think
for people, and I do believe more people are rooting
for her than are celebrating her continued downward spiral.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Was this the our manager? Was this the manager?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, yes, yes, and so we'll read it for you.
And I got a lot of hope out of the statement.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know how, you go ahead and read it. I'm
not sure how I felt about it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Okay, all right, This is the official statement from the
Britney Spears camp. This was an unfortunate incident that is
completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps
and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be
the first step in long overdue change that needs to
occur in Britney's life. Hopefully she can get the help
(11:09):
and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys
are going to be spending time with her, Her loved
ones are going to come up with an overdue needed
plan to set her up for success for well being.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Again, it sounds like it's coming from somebody outside of
her telling her once again what's going to happen, is
getting on to her about her actions. I understand that
it didn't seem collaborative, It didn't seem like she was
a part necessarily of that. You just continue to wonder
what is going on. Look, all of that sounded good.
I hope families around. I'm hoping her dear friends are around.
(11:44):
I hope she's okay. I quite frankly, she hasn't been
charged with anything. We don't know for sure what this
was about, what was going on with her at the time,
so we have to leave room for that at the
same time. But the headlines are there, and it's just
I hate her having to go through another round of
this stuff in her life and roads the part we
talked about it right, if we were back in our
(12:06):
own mainstream news, big broadcast network newsrooms, how this story
would be covered and the way we feel about it
now is much different. In this coverage, we like, the
last thing I want to do is go back and
rehash and say, yeah, she did this and then she
did this thing bad and remember back then, and to
(12:27):
stack all this stuff up. I know, I guess robe
that's a part of the story and you're supposed to do,
but it something about piling on or reminding people of
her troubles feels awful, and I don't know want to
look forward, want to be forward thinking and forward looking
and future and hope for this young lady. But man,
(12:48):
I just I hate it forbe.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That makes a lot of sense, because I think if
you can't outlive your past, if every time you do
anything good or bad or neutral, they're always going to
bring up that thing you did that made the headline,
so people will click, so people ears will perk up,
so people will feel like, Hey, at least my life
isn't as bad as hers, you know. I really do
think there's some psychology to that, and I do think
(13:14):
it's important that we do recognize that and remember that
as we choose not just what to cover, but how
to cover it, and to cover this with compassion and empathy,
and not to bring up only I would say only
in the context of the fact that this woman this
forty I want to say, young lady. Look, she's forty
four years old, but in some way she'll always be sixteen.
It's just how we remember her. But ever since two
(13:36):
thousand and six, and even probably a little bit before then,
you're talking twenty years of this of this woman who
has I feel like, been crying for help and I
am just hoping look to it brings tears to my
eyes to hear reports that her sons, who are now
twenty and nineteen, are going to now be spending time
with her, because some of what she put on on
(13:58):
social media was just this eight of not being able
to see her sons, not having a relationship with her sons,
being angry about not having a closeness with her sons,
her mom. You know, there are reports that they're reaching
out if this could bring Sometimes it does take tough
times to bring people together, to re center people's agendas
and to recognize that I I this is my daughter,
(14:20):
this is my mother's let's figure this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Out, okay, And again that's fine, and I hope, I
just I know it's her responsibility. She is an adult.
An adult is not supposed to get behind the wheel impaired.
Somebody could have been hurt, somebody could have been killed. Yes,
you should be held responsible for those things. I just robes,
(14:44):
how do you in a situation like this, Well, yes,
she possibly is the person who did wrong, But Robes,
there's a way to still look at somebody as a
human being and not throw them away because of mistakes
they make or even continue to make. And to I
think you're right that, yes, there are some so stupid
(15:07):
headlines that people trying to be cute about some song
of hers and incorporate that into this DUI. Yep, that
kind of crap is going to happen. But how do
you just be a human being to this woman who
is struggling? Once again? It appears, and I just I
don't know, I don't She's not on a playlist of mine,
but I love every single song she's I'm a fan
(15:29):
of hers, I'm a fan of her music, and I
just how did we let this treasure of ours, which
I will say she is and we almost do feel
like she belongs to all of us. She's just such
a part of our lives. And I'm only real I'm
forty eight, she's forty four. Yeah, I feel like she's
fifteen years younger than I am because she was a
kid when I first saw her, and I didn't realize,
(15:52):
Oh yeah, I was kind of a kid, Toode you
were at that time. It just oh, I can't say.
I don't have the right words ropes for how to
do and how to handle and how to view and
how to cover and how to reach out and how
to be compassionate not just to her, but to other
people that we are so quick to take their worst
moment and turn it into our punchline or our opportunity
(16:14):
to get followers.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I just hate it, Yeah, because no matter if you're
Britney Spears or if you're Joe Smith next door, when
people say negative, horrible, awful things about you, it hurts,
It matters, it affects you. It impacts you, period. So
I would say, maybe we take this, we root for her,
we send her positive energy and love, and if you're
(16:37):
going to make a comment online, say we're with you,
we support you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We hope you find the help you need.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's the spirit in which to look at this story,
and I hope we can all maybe do that and
remember that when we see not just this story about
Britney Spears, but other folks in the headlines who maybe
are now having their worst moments displayed for the world
to tear apart, dissect and have a comment on. So anyway,
we do wish Britney Spears the best and we hope
(17:02):
that this is a turning point for her. We absolutely
thank you all for listening to us. As always, we
appreciate we know we have many updates throughout the day,
and we appreciate you clicking on our podcast. We will
have many more throughout the weekend, so stay tuned. In
the meantime, I made me Robach alongside TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We will talk to you very soon.
Hey there, everybody. It is Friday, March sixth. You've probably
seen the headlines by now Britney Spears has been arrested
for in suspicion of Dui. With that, we want to
welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJ that
frankly we were reluctant to do for a number of reasons,
(00:22):
but rogue. She's a big star. This is a big deal.
But man it sucks because, yes, you can argue she
brought on herself, but this is going to be another
round of headlines and everybody talking about her, what she
should do, and so on and so forth.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, I think, look, we hesitated because we don't want
to pile on. This is clearly a woman who is
celebrated and loved. Hell I listened to her music all
the time, especially when I'm running. She has been a
part of our lives for as long as most of
us can remember, and we have watched her decline, spiral,
(01:02):
have problems, and I feel like most people are rooting
for her. We want the best for her, We want
her to make more music, to feel her own strength
and her own power. She's been through so much, and
to me, the one thing that really stood out that
could be a positive note in all of these negative
headlines she has suffered through for the past two decades.
(01:27):
I loved this line. We'll read her full statement, but
I loved this line. Hopefully this can be the first
step in long overdue change that needs to occur in
Britney's life. And I do feel like from what I've
seen online, she has a huge fan base that is
(01:47):
hoping for the best and rooting her on. But this
is a tough, tough situation and thankfully no one got hurt.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You again, if you haven't gone beyond the headlines, we
will tell you what happened. This is reportedly on Wednesday
evening out in Los Angeles in southern California, of course,
not too far from where she has a home in
Thousand Oaks. It's out there, people are aware of this.
But the report was of a black BMW driving erradically
and at high speeds. Police were able to catch up
(02:18):
with his vehicle. She did pull over. She was given
a field sobriety test that apparently the officer thought she failed.
She was taken to jail. She was booked at three am.
She was out by six am, but that is the story.
We have not heard directly from her short of at
least we see a move she has made. And I
don't keep up with it rogues, but a lot of
(02:39):
people are familiar with their Instagram account.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yes I am among her millions and millions of followers,
but yes, she has deactivated her Instagram account. She did
that on Thursday, and look, I think that's also a
positive sign. A lot of people have only been keeping
tabs on Britney Spears over these past few years since
she was when since that conservatorship was removed by a
(03:04):
judge in twenty twenty one, So for the past five
years or so, we have been watching her basically through
her Instagram feed, and frankly, a lot of what we
see on that Instagram feed has been concerning, deeply concerning,
not just in the videos she's posted, but even in
some of the captions where she's gone after family members
and friends and had kind of a stream of consciousness
(03:26):
type of caption. She's gone through a messy divorce online,
so we've only really been able to gauge how she's
doing based on her Instagram account, and frankly, she's it's
been tough to watch at times.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I think. But then I have other people coming to
me and said, oh my goodness, you've got to follow Brittany,
and I think robes and again we want to say
she's an adult, and she's responsible for her action. She's
a mother, all right, to two boys. We hope so
many people are point if over the years, pointed to
(04:01):
you should check it out, not because it's entertaining, not
because it's fun, but because they think it's so disturbing
that you'll be entertained by how ridiculous it is. It's
almost making fun of her, is how I have been
told to follow her. It's not described as like it's
our entertainment. We are watching this play out, and I
(04:25):
think a lot of folks have used it as their entertainment.
It's over the years, I'm not suggesting you, but you
know what I'm saying. Everybody who has suggested I follow her,
we're not doing it for a positive reason. They oh,
you got to check this out. It's crazy, it's wild,
you gotta see it. It wasn't in a positive light,
is what I'm saying. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I would say I would liken it to people watching
a train wreck. People would say that that has been
what they have seen over the past several years. Because
this is Brittany, it's her, it's her Instagram. She can
do what she wants. But if you haven't followed her. Basically,
she has a series or she had because again that
account has been dia debated, but she's had a series
(05:02):
of of she is dancing by herself a lot of times.
She's barely clothed. Sometimes she's rolling around the beach with
no clothing and she has her nipples exposed, and she
puts stars or hearts to cover anything so it won't
be indecent. But she looks out of control, her makeup lodged,
et cetera. Like she just looks like a wreck.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Well, I don't know how much. I don't follow it,
so I can't speak on it. It sounds like a
lot of stuff I see on social media. It sounds
performative by some artists. Again, I understand that some people
are saying this is different, but I don't know. We
don't hear her explain her actions. We don't hear any
of that. So all of this stuff and we don't
hear from Britain. Whend was the memoir two three years
(05:44):
twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I believe she put out her memoir, so.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
She's I don't remember her doing necessarily rounds of interviews.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
She did not know, she did not no, not at all,
so we.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Don't hear from her at all. And then the time
we hear from her and she's in the headline has
to do with the DUI. Yes, people are going to
speak and speculate and try to put things together, but
Robes this I hate she's going through it again. I
am a huge Britney Spears fan, and I am just
I'm devastated at the life. I have seen her live
(06:17):
from the moment I saw that first video of her
dancing around bad past high school lockers. Right, That's how
we got interested. I did it again, and she has that.
The moments of victory of us celebrating her in the
past several years have been just few and far between.
(06:38):
She should be at every Grammy Award. She should be
at every ward. She is a a an icon an,
iconic royalty type figure there and she's just forty four.
I know she.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
I mean, she came up on the Disney Channel with
Justin Timberlake and Christina Aguilera. She was a part of
that group and she was wildly talent. My god. I
mean to the fact that her music still still lands,
still works, still gets me moving, gets me smiling. How
you know what her music You can poo poo it
all you want and say she sounds auto tuned and
(07:13):
her voice isn't that great whatever. That girl could dance,
that girl could perform, that girl could entertain, And every
time I hear her music, I feel joy.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
She's one of the best we've ever seen in our lifetimes.
She absolutely is like it, love it. She was a
whole part of that new poppy. I guess that that
that pop got a little cuter, right, It was the
whole era of pop, yes, is that yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean that's what I've always heard it referred to.
And you know what, I am on abashedly a huge
fan of it.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The thing is, we all are put on a Britney
Spears song today, it works, put on a Backstreet Boy song,
it works today. That was that era, yep, and she
was the queen of it. Emerald. It just devastating that
we continue to watch this person who played a role
in all of our lives with her music. In Romese,
we want to root We're always rooting for, but we don't.
(08:04):
We rarely have something to celebrate for. We're always pulling
for we are, but there's not It doesn't seem to
be victories. The conservatorship, that of course, was a big deal.
She got out of what the Free Britney movement.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
The Free Britney movement, she actually yes, I didn't realize
how long it had lasted, but her father sought that
out in two thousand and six and it ended in
twenty twenty one, so thirteen years she was under a conservatorship.
And look, she has just sold I believe, rights to
her music. But she has hinted, certainly in her memoir
that she was going to start creating more music. I
(08:39):
think there would be nothing better than to see her
put Look, she is a creative force, and to see
her be able to put that energy and to put
some of that genius into new music, into art, that
would be the best case scenario. But I think a
lot of folks just realized from the outside looking in, look,
we don't have any sort of internal knowledge, but from
(09:00):
the outside looking in, just from what we've been given
a window into her world that she's put out there
on social media, it does look deeply concerning, and then
couple that with the fact that you know she's estranged
from her father, from her mother, from her sister. You know,
you wonder when you don't have family, people who are
supposed to love you no matter what, around you, because
you don't trust them. And whether they earned that or not,
(09:21):
that's not for me to say, but that also just
makes your heart go out to her because who is
there for her? Who is her safe space? Who is
her cushion? Everyone needs one?
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, we are being told that family is on the way.
Stay here. We'll let you hear the statement from her
own people that seems to suggest a change is coming.
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ.
We're talking about the latest unfortunate headline for pop superstar
Britney Spears. She has been arrested, booked, and released on
suspicion of d UI after police pulled her over. They
say she was erratic in her driving, She was driving
at a high speed, they pulled her over. They say
(10:14):
she failed US a field sobriety test and so charges
are pending. But we did get a statement from her
people that actually provides a glimmer of hope. I think
for people, and I do believe more people are rooting
for her than are celebrating her continued downward spiral.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Was this the our manager? Was this the manager?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yes, yes, yes, and so we'll read it for you.
And I got a lot of hope out of the statement.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
You know how, you go ahead and read it. I'm
not sure how I felt about it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Okay, all right, This is the official statement from the
Britney Spears camp. This was an unfortunate incident that is
completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps
and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be
the first step in long overdue change that needs to
occur in Britney's life. Hopefully she can get the help
(11:09):
and support she needs during this difficult time. Her boys
are going to be spending time with her, Her loved
ones are going to come up with an overdue needed
plan to set her up for success for well being.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Again, it sounds like it's coming from somebody outside of
her telling her once again what's going to happen, is
getting on to her about her actions. I understand that
it didn't seem collaborative, It didn't seem like she was
a part necessarily of that. You just continue to wonder
what is going on. Look, all of that sounded good.
I hope families around. I'm hoping her dear friends are around.
(11:44):
I hope she's okay. I quite frankly, she hasn't been
charged with anything. We don't know for sure what this
was about, what was going on with her at the time,
so we have to leave room for that at the
same time. But the headlines are there, and it's just
I hate her having to go through another round of
this stuff in her life and roads the part we
talked about it right, if we were back in our
(12:06):
own mainstream news, big broadcast network newsrooms, how this story
would be covered and the way we feel about it
now is much different. In this coverage, we like, the
last thing I want to do is go back and
rehash and say, yeah, she did this and then she
did this thing bad and remember back then, and to
(12:27):
stack all this stuff up. I know, I guess robe
that's a part of the story and you're supposed to do,
but it something about piling on or reminding people of
her troubles feels awful, and I don't know want to
look forward, want to be forward thinking and forward looking
and future and hope for this young lady. But man,
(12:48):
I just I hate it forbe.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
That makes a lot of sense, because I think if
you can't outlive your past, if every time you do
anything good or bad or neutral, they're always going to
bring up that thing you did that made the headline,
so people will click, so people ears will perk up,
so people will feel like, Hey, at least my life
isn't as bad as hers, you know. I really do
think there's some psychology to that, and I do think
(13:14):
it's important that we do recognize that and remember that
as we choose not just what to cover, but how
to cover it, and to cover this with compassion and empathy,
and not to bring up only I would say only
in the context of the fact that this woman this
forty I want to say, young lady. Look, she's forty
four years old, but in some way she'll always be sixteen.
It's just how we remember her. But ever since two
(13:36):
thousand and six, and even probably a little bit before then,
you're talking twenty years of this of this woman who
has I feel like, been crying for help and I
am just hoping look to it brings tears to my
eyes to hear reports that her sons, who are now
twenty and nineteen, are going to now be spending time
with her, because some of what she put on on
(13:58):
social media was just this eight of not being able
to see her sons, not having a relationship with her sons,
being angry about not having a closeness with her sons,
her mom. You know, there are reports that they're reaching
out if this could bring Sometimes it does take tough
times to bring people together, to re center people's agendas
and to recognize that I I this is my daughter,
(14:20):
this is my mother's let's figure this.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Out, okay, And again that's fine, and I hope, I
just I know it's her responsibility. She is an adult.
An adult is not supposed to get behind the wheel impaired.
Somebody could have been hurt, somebody could have been killed. Yes,
you should be held responsible for those things. I just robes,
(14:44):
how do you in a situation like this, Well, yes,
she possibly is the person who did wrong, But Robes,
there's a way to still look at somebody as a
human being and not throw them away because of mistakes
they make or even continue to make. And to I
think you're right that, yes, there are some so stupid
(15:07):
headlines that people trying to be cute about some song
of hers and incorporate that into this DUI. Yep, that
kind of crap is going to happen. But how do
you just be a human being to this woman who
is struggling? Once again? It appears, and I just I
don't know, I don't She's not on a playlist of mine,
but I love every single song she's I'm a fan
(15:29):
of hers, I'm a fan of her music, and I
just how did we let this treasure of ours, which
I will say she is and we almost do feel
like she belongs to all of us. She's just such
a part of our lives. And I'm only real I'm
forty eight, she's forty four. Yeah, I feel like she's
fifteen years younger than I am because she was a
kid when I first saw her, and I didn't realize,
(15:52):
Oh yeah, I was kind of a kid, Toode you
were at that time. It just oh, I can't say.
I don't have the right words ropes for how to
do and how to handle and how to view and
how to cover and how to reach out and how
to be compassionate not just to her, but to other
people that we are so quick to take their worst
moment and turn it into our punchline or our opportunity
(16:14):
to get followers.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I just hate it, Yeah, because no matter if you're
Britney Spears or if you're Joe Smith next door, when
people say negative, horrible, awful things about you, it hurts,
It matters, it affects you. It impacts you, period. So
I would say, maybe we take this, we root for her,
we send her positive energy and love, and if you're
(16:37):
going to make a comment online, say we're with you,
we support you.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We hope you find the help you need.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
That's the spirit in which to look at this story,
and I hope we can all maybe do that and
remember that when we see not just this story about
Britney Spears, but other folks in the headlines who maybe
are now having their worst moments displayed for the world
to tear apart, dissect and have a comment on. So anyway,
we do wish Britney Spears the best and we hope
(17:02):
that this is a turning point for her. We absolutely
thank you all for listening to us. As always, we
appreciate we know we have many updates throughout the day,
and we appreciate you clicking on our podcast. We will
have many more throughout the weekend, so stay tuned. In
the meantime, I made me Robach alongside TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
We will talk to you very soon.
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