The year of excessive sharing: Lessons learned from 2023’s celebrity autobiographies and documentaries, including those of Jada Pinkett Smith, Pamela Anderson, Britney Spears, and others
This year, readers were given access to the private lives of celebrities such Jada Pinkett Smith, Prince Harry, Britney Spears, and Pamela Anderson through a series of eye-opening films and autobiographies. Even though many of them took advantage of the chance to reclaim their stories on their own terms, frequently by making surprising charges or open confessions, the trend begs the important question of how much is too much when it comes to a celebrity exposing their innermost thoughts?
According to Hollywood publicist Liza Anderson, who founded Anderson Group Public Relations, “you gotta give people what they want, and people want to feel connected to their celebrities,” as she states to Yahoo Entertainment. “They want to feel involved in their lives, and I believe that’s what celebrities also want.” This year, readers didn’t seem to mind that at all.
For instance, Spears disclosed in The Woman in Me that she was urged to have an abortion by Justin Timberlake in the 2000s while they were dating. She also discussed her thoughts on her father’s 13-year conservatorship campaign. Pinkett Smith revealed in her autobiography, Worthy, that she and her spouse Will Smith had been divorced since 2016. She then talked about Will’s controversial slap at the 2022 Oscars.
