It looks like Britney Spears is staying put — for now. After telling fans that she was moving out of the United States to Mexico to escape “cruel” paparazzi, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that the pop star actually isn’t taking the leap, according to a source.
Spears had told fans in an Instagram video Tuesday (Dec. 3) that she was moving because “they’ve always been incredibly cruel to me, the paparazzi and pictures, and the way they’ve illustrated me to be in some of it.”
“I know I’m not perfect at all, by any means, but some of it is extremely mean and cruel, and that’s why I’ve moved to Mexico,” she added in the clip, posted one day after her 43rd birthday.
Two days later, the “Toxic” singer shared a video of herself modeling an icy blue cocktail dress and wrote, “I’m so blessed !!! I’m house hunting and this place is insanely beautiful !!! Thank you Jesus for a place so far away from America !!!”
It’s unclear whether Spears is simply trolling her audience or not. The posts come just after a California court declared her legally separated from ex-husband Sam Asghari, with whom she split in August 2023.
The pop star is currently in the midst of having her life adapted into a biopic directed by Wicked filmmaker Jon M. Chu, with Universal Pictures landing the rights to her bestselling memoir The Woman in Me in August. In a recent interview, Chu said that — despite not having a script in place yet — the project will be “about how we treat people, young people, stars that we think we own, women, mothers.”
“The project I might be doing isn’t a biopic story … it’s a fictional musical where I play an extremely intelligent character !!!,” Spears wrote on Instagram in September. “It’s flattering to be in such good company like Jon Chu !!!”
