Mara Wilson calls Britney Spears' mistreatment 'terrifying,' speaks out against sexualization of child stars

Mara Wilson calls the mistreatment of Britney Spears in the '90s 'terrifying' and shared why the pop singer deserves justice today.

In her op-ed written for The New York Times, Wilson, now 33, speaks to what she calls "The Narrative" that's been perpetuated by media and the public for years. She describes it as "the idea that anyone who grew up in the public eye will meet some tragic end." Wilson shared one of her earliest memories of being publicly shunned after a journalist referred to her as a "spoiled brat" in an article when she was just 13. She noted she was "ruined" at the time despite having been "trained to seem, to be, as normal as possible — whatever it took to avoid my inevitable downfall."