Busy Philipps and her very best pal Michelle Williams jointly “lost it” when the latter was once requested to relate the audiobook of Britney Spears’ memoir.
“She was like, ‘I have to do this, right?'” Philipps, 44, recalled on “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen” Tuesday.
“I was like, ‘Yes! Obviously!'”
The “White Chicks” megastar shared that Williams, 43, “felt a connection” to “The Woman in Me,” which hit retail outlets in October 2023.
“We all — and Michelle, even younger than me — we all came up in a very particular time in this industry … as young women, and we were subjected to a lot,” Philipps defined, highlighting that she felt there was once “a lot” about Spears’ tale that was once “sadly very relatable — to all women.”
The “Freaks and Geeks” alum beamed over her shut buddy seizing the chance, calling her former “Dawson’s Creek” co-star the “right” selection for the voiceover.
“I thought that Michelle doing it was just incredible and really beautiful,” she stated, including that “Britney deserves our respect.”
Andy Cohen agreed, noting that the Princess of Pop, 42, additionally “deserves some peace and some happiness.”
Web page Six solely reported final 12 months that Spears, her staff and her publishers had decided on Williams on account of the “tremendous amount of class and elegance” she possesses in addition to her personal advanced circle of relatives dynamic.
“There was a mutual attraction from all sides based on Britney’s powerful narrative and what Britney went through, and Michelle’s own integrity and history with her own emancipation issues,” an insider advised us on the time.
The Oscar-nominated actress and the Grammy-winning singer each rose to repute in Hollywood once they have been very younger and feature additionally been estranged from relations.
Practice Web page Six’s protection of ‘The Woman in Me’
Williams was once legally emancipated from her folks at age 15, whilst Spears was once beneath the allegedly abusive conservatorship of her father for with reference to 14 years.
The “Toxic” singer prior to now described her tell-all as “a labor of love and all the emotions that come with it.”
She then defined why she could be studying just a “small part” of the guide: the advent.
“Reliving everything has been exciting, heart-wrenching and emotional, to say the least,” she stated. “I am so grateful to the amazing Michelle Williams for reading the rest of it.”
The “Manchester by the Sea” megastar’s narration was once so well-received that she even went viral for one specifically noteworthy impersonation of Spears’ former boyfriend Justin Timberlake pronouncing, “Fo shiz, fo shiz” to R&B crooner Ginuwine.