Britney Spears learned about #FreeBritney movement from a nurse at a rehab facility

nme.com:

Britney Spears has revealed how she first learned about the #FreeBritney movement that supported her throughout her legal battle.In her upcoming memoir The Woman in Me, which was previewed by Time Magazine, Spears writes that she was unaware of the fan-led campaign until 2018, when she was in a rehabilitation centre in Beverly Hills.

Describing the rehab as a “nightmare”, she says that “the doctors took me away from my kids and my dogs and my house”.“I couldn’t go outside.

I couldn’t drive a car. I had to give blood weekly. I couldn’t take a bath in private. I couldn’t shut the door to my room. I was watched, even when I was changing,” she wrote.Spears says that a nurse who was “real as hell” showed her a video of women on a talk show discussing the conservatorship one day where one of the hosts was wearing a #FreeBritney T-shirt.

This sparked her curiosity about the hashtag, leading to her discovery of clips of fans trying to figure out if she was being held against her will.“I don’t think people knew how much the #FreeBritney movement meant to me,” Spears wrote.