Singer Britney Spears took to her Instagram to share a since-deleted lengthy message as she openly discussed her infamous 2004 interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC. She also revealed why she doesn’t plan to return to touring. 

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“Do we dare forget the Diane Sawyer interview in my apartment almost 20 years ago? What was with the ‘You’re in the wrong’ approach?? Geeze… and making me cry???” she wrote, reports people.com

She continued, “Seriously though… I lived in my apartment for a year and never spoke to anyone… my manager put that woman in my home and made me talk to her on national television and she asked if I had a shopping problem!!! when did I have a shopping problem?”

Spears also addressed her split from Justin Timberlake in 2002 and how “in shock” she was following it and “never spoke to anyone for a very long time.”

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“Something I never shared when I had that break up years ago was that I couldn’t talk afterward,” she wrote.

Added the singer, “I was in shock… pretty lame of my dad and three men to show up at my door when I could hardly speak… two days later they put Diane Sawyer in my living room… they forced me to talk!”

In a statement to people.com, Jamie Spears’ lawyer Alex Weingarten denied Jamie’s involvement in the interview, saying he was “completely uninvolved” in its planning.

“Mr. Spears has no idea what Ms. Spears is talking about. Jamie never set up any interview with Diane Sawyer and was not present for any such interview,” the statement read. “He had nothing to do with Britney’s career at this point and was completely uninvolved in this interview. Jamie loves Britney very much, wishes Britney nothing but the best and hopes that she continues to seek the help that she needs to stay safe and healthy.”

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Spears said she was “a baby” at the time, but now she knows how to stand up for herself.

“She said ‘a woman or a girl’ … I would like to say now, ‘Ma’am I’m a catholic slut!!!” Spears wrote, referring to one of Sawyer’s interview questions. On being asked about her “shopping problem,” Spears added that she could spend as much money as she wanted.

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Following the release of the New York Times’ ‘Framing Britney Spears’ documentary, Sawyer was under fire after the movie included a part of the journalist’s intense questioning.