The Matilda actress who has been open about the experiences of child stars in the past — has weighed in on the Toxic hitmaker’s ongoing legal battle to have her father Jamie Spears removed as her co-conservator. She told Entertainment Tonight, “I have never met her, but I really feel like I keep thinking about her song, Overprotected, and I think that she really needs to be able to live her life for herself, because she hasn’t for so long. She has been living a life under somebody else’s control and that is terrible, and I think that is the truth for a lot of people who achieve that level of fame. They don’t really have any freedom. But she didn’t have any freedom because of paparazzi and because of what was done to her because of the conservatorship, so I think that we need to let her live her life because anybody would be chaffing under those restrictions, anybody would be struggling.” The 34-year-old star admitted she was lucky her family kept her grounded during her early fame and made sure she still ‘remained a child’.
