Busy Philipps Says Michelle Williams ‘Lost It’ When Offered Britney Spears Audiobook Gig

Michelle Williams is rather like us — and fully “lost it” when Britney Spears reached out.

The “Brokeback Mountain” star was handpicked to relate the audiobook model of Spears’ memoir, “The Woman in Me,” to fairly viral outcomes. While Williams has 5 Oscar nominations below her belt, this sudden supply seemed to be the function of a lifetime.

“We lost it,” fellow actor and shut buddy Busy Philipps advised Andy Cohen on Wednesday’s “Watch What Happens Live” episode. “She was like, ‘I have to do this, right?’ I was like, ‘Yes! Obviously!’ And she’s like, ‘I really do, Biz.’ She really felt a connection.”

Williams had clear causes to really feel that manner. Though she didn’t endure a 13-year conservatorship like Spears, Williams began out as a baby actor who emancipated herself as a teen and needed to navigate the perils of Hollywood. The actor has additionally confronted hardship as an grownup, together with when Heath Ledger, her ex-partner and the daddy to her daughter, died in 2008.

“We all — and Michelle, even younger than me — we all came up in a very particular time in this industry, that was what the majority of my memoir is about, as young women, and we were subjected to a lot,” Philipps advised Cohen.

“I think that there was a lot that was, sadly, very relatable to all women in Britney’s book, but I thought that Michelle doing it was just incredible and really beautiful,” she continued. “Britney deserves our respect.”

Spears was a baby when she joined Disney’s “Mickey Mouse Club” and was solely 16 when her debut single, “…Baby One More Time” was launched in 1998. She was in heavy MTV rotation on the flip of the millennium, however was put below a strict authorized association in 2008.

Spears was extensively celebrated for combating the conservatorship of her father, which noticed her stripped of any management over her profession or funds and bodily autonomy. Its dissolution arrived in 2021 amid a viral #FreeBritney motion, which Williams later championed.

“I stand with Britney,” she advised People after accepting the singer’s supply.

“The Woman in Me” and its audiobook model concurrently hit cabinets in October.