Late Late Show host Ferguson addressing the star’s public breakdown has resurfaced.
He spoke on 20 February, when the then 26-year-old had just checked out of rehab. It was just a day later that photographs of Spears with her head shaved, wielding an umbrella like a baton, would be splashed onto gossip magazines.
Ferguson, James Corden’s
predecessor on the CBS programme, opened his show by explaining to the audience that he would not be mocking the “Toxic” hitmaker.
Instead, he took aim at his own spotty past to make a powerful point on how people and the press treat celebrities.