Reese Witherspoon Talks How The Media Treated Her, Britney Spears Differently

Reese Witherspoon got candid about the treatment she received from the press and how it was so different compared to what Britney Spears experienced through the years.

In a new interview with Time, the "Big Little Lies" star recounted the time she was being hounded by the paparazzi just like Spears. She said they would follow her to church, to her kids' school and their soccer practice. There were times when the photographers would park outside her home in California to get pictures of her at home.

"My children will tell you stories about being in preschool and people climbing on the roofs of our cars," she told the magazine.

Witherspoon later moved to Nashville. Despite her not-so-good experience with the paparazzi, the "Legally Blonde" star felt that she was treated differently compared to Spears. The "Cruel Intentions" star noted that she was treated better because she and her friend Jennifer Garner were labeled as "good" while Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan were all painted as "bad." For instance, she recalled the times when she was filmed screaming at the cameras, but it never stuck to her reputation.

"What if the media had decided I was something else? I would be in a totally different position," Witherspoon said. "I want to say it’s my decisions or the career choices I made, but it felt very arbitrary. And kind of sh--ty."

Recently, Hilton reflected on the treatment Spears received from the press in The New York Times documentary "Framing Britney Spears." For her, the "Oops!... I Did It Again" singer was unfairly treated by the press.

"I've been reading all of these articles coming out where they were just saying, like, Britney, Paris and just, like, a group of us were just were treated so unfairly and just, like, this really misogynistic view and just being very cruel and mean and making fun of us," she said in the "This Is Paris " podcast. "It made me think a lot this week, reading all these new things that are coming out after the Britney film."

Hilton and Spears have remained good friends over the years. The hotel heiress also showed her support to the "Toxic" hitmaker amid her conservatorship battle.

"I just love her so much. I feel like if you are an adult, you should be able to live your life and not be controlled," Hilton said of her pal.