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Is an Oprah tell-all interview in Britney Spears' future?

The Oprah memes taking over the internet is in order here.

Oprah revived the live primetime celebrity interview in a big way earlier this month when she sat down with Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, for a revelatory conversation that included bombshell after bombshell

Like at least 17.1 million other people, Britney Spears watched. The 39-year-old is reportedly interested in becoming Oprah's next tell-all guest.

"Britney has considered speaking out about her past, mostly because she doesn't feel others should tell her story," an unnamed source told Entertainment Tonight. "She's always hated doing interviews, but if she ever takes that step, Oprah would most likely be her first choice. At this point, there is no plan in the works for her to do an interview but when she does, there will be steps Britney would need to take before speaking out."

There is a renewed interest in Spears' personal life following February's The New York Times Presents documentary Framing Britney Spears, which reexamined the damaging media coverage the 39-year-old pop icon faced in the early 2000s as well as her controversial ongoing conservatorship that placed her father, Jamie Spears, in charge of her finances and person in 2008.

There had long been a #FreeBritney movement, but it is as strong as ever in the documentary's aftermath.

 
"Britney has been much happier lately and those closest to her feel it's because she's received such tremendous support from her fans," ET's source continued. "The release of the documentary has inspired an outpouring of more love than ever. While she hasn't been able to make changes to her conservatorship, she's received millions of messages from fans on social media and she feels far more understood."


Wednesday, the legal battle over Spears' conservatorship headed back to court. No changes were granted after a Feb. 11 hearing kept her father as a co-conservator. However, the "Baby One More Time" singer's lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, made clear that he will file a petition to make Jodi Montgomery permanent conservator (h/t NBC News).

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