11. Britney Spears Breakdown
In one of the more notorious invasions of privacy, the paparazzi media had a field day with Britney Spearsduring her highly publicized mental breakdown from 2007. This was a particularly rough time for Spears as she found herself in a custody battle over her children with ex-husband Kevin Federline, her aunt whom she was tremendously close with had died, and it became public knowledge that Spears was dealing with a drug problem; all of which happened in a short amount of time. It’s no wonder why she went through a mental meltdown that included shaving her head and smashing car windows. And the paparazzi were there for every second of it. She would make a successful comeback a year later, but no one forgot the drama or the trauma she went through previously.
While Spears’ mental breakdown was on far too grand of a scale to avoid media coverage, it’s disturbing to think that a swarm of photographers would just sit back and not only watch a woman at her wit’s end, but pawn it off as gossip entertainment. There’s not much the average bystander can do from the sidelines, but there has to be a better option than to just document and profit from the breakdown.
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