Britney Spears addresses angry post about Halsey, insisting it was 'fake news' and that someone else wrote it

Britney Spears has insisted she didn't write a post that went out from her X account about singer, Halsey, branding it "fake news."

It comes after her account hit out at Halsey's video for 'bullying" - saying she feels "violated." She seemed to write on X, formerly known as Twitter : "For obvious reasons, I'm very upset about the Halsey video. I feel harassed, violated, and bullied. I didn't known an artist like her and someone I looked up to and admired would illustrate me in such an ignorant way by tailoring me as a superficial pop star with no heart or concern at all.

"I have my own health problems which is why I took down my IG account yesterday. I will definitely be putting it back up to show I CARE. I'm speaking with my lawyers to see what can be done on this matter. It feels illegal and down right cruel."

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However, now the pop star claims that was "fake news" and wasn't her on her phone. She wrote: "That was not me on my phone !!! I love Halsey and that’s why I deleted it."

In Halsey's latest music video, she appears to reference the pop princess as she wears a crystal bodysuit paralleling the iconic look from Britney's Toxic. She dons a bright pink wig and appears on red carpets, appearing on posters, and being papped.

On the track, Halsey sings: “I shaved my head four times because I wanted to / And then I did it one more time ’cause I got sick. I left the doctor’s office full of tears / Became a single mom at my premiere / And I told everybody I was fine for a whole damn year / And that’s the biggest lie of my career.”

Halsey previously claimed that she received approval from Britney to sample her music in the song. She wrote on X: "I remember the first time I heard her sing lucky and it hitting me at such a young age that I had no idea what her life was really like. and that feeling resonates with me so much still. I found myself singing it when I started treatment and then I knew I had to do it."

In the video, Halsey takes off the wig to expose her bald head, a call back to her recent health issues. "Long story short, I’m Lucky to be alive. short story long, I wrote an album ," the musician wrote on Instagram as she shared videos from a recovery process from an unlabeled medical condition.