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In 2003, America blamed Britney Spears for breaking Justin Timberlake’s heart. In 2023, she revealed he’d asked her to end a pregnancy. They had met as kids on the Mickey Mouse Club. She had told the world she was saving herself for marriage. Timberlake had just released “Cry Me a River,” with a Britney lookalike in the video, and gone on TV to say she broke his heart. In the video below, Diane Sawyer reads Britney’s own lyrics back to her and asks who they’re about. She can barely get a word out. Then Sawyer goes further. “You did something that caused him so much pain, so much suffering. What did you do?” Britney says they were both too young, and that she’ll always love him. Sawyer brings up the fact that she’d once said she had only slept with one person. The 21-year-old fights back tears on national television while Sawyer keeps pushing. She says Justin called her, supposedly to catch up, and casually mentioned her lookalike would be starring in his new video. Eighteen years later, Britney still hadn’t let it go. “What was with the ‘You’re in the wrong’ approach?? Geeze… and making me cry???” she wrote about Sawyer in 2021. In 2021, after the documentary Framing Britney Spears, Timberlake publicly apologized. In her 2023 memoir The Woman in Me, Britney wrote that she’d had an abortion while they were together, because he said they weren’t ready. She called the Sawyer interview a breaking point and said she felt exploited. So who should Diane Sawyer have been asking that question: Britney, or Justin?

In June 2005, Diane Sawyer asked Brad Pitt the question Hollywood had been waiting for: “Did Angelina Jolie break up your marriage?” He said no. Then he laughed and turned the question into a game show joke. Five months earlier, Pitt and Jennifer Aniston had announced their separation. They had been together for seven years. Their divorce wasn't even final yet. But photographs had already surfaced of Brad, Angelina, and her son Maddox on a beach in Kenya. Mr. & Mrs. Smith was about to hit theaters. The movie that brought Pitt and Jolie together told the story of a married couple hiding entire lives from each other. In the video below, Sawyer asks whether he and Angelina are officially together. Pitt doesn't say yes. He says he doesn't know what the future holds. She asks about the ring he's wearing. Tabloids claim Jolie gave it to him. Brad insists it was a freebie from a photo shoot. Then Sawyer brings up the way the tabloids portray him. A man having a midlife crisis. Angelina cast as the woman who destroyed his marriage. “I know my truth,” Pitt says. At 41, he tells her he sees no need to defend himself. He refuses to clear up the rumors. He wants to keep something of his private life for himself. Pitt and Jolie went on to raise six children together. They married in 2014. But in September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce. Their divorce settlement came in December 2024. Back in 2005, Pitt insisted he knew his truth. Brad said he knew his truth. But if Angelina didn't break up his marriage, why did his next chapter begin with her?

In January 2004, Jennifer Aniston told Diane Sawyer she couldn’t imagine being with any other human being. That same month, Brad Pitt started filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Angelina Jolie. Friends was weeks from its final taping. Aniston had just topped Forbes’ list of the most powerful stars in Hollywood. She and Pitt had moved into a 12,000-square-foot house he redesigned himself. Her own mother wasn’t invited to the wedding. In the video below, Sawyer plays her an old clip of Pitt talking about love. “If you find yourself going another way… be honest. Otherwise you’re better off alone.” Aniston laughs off the tabloids. Read the magazines, she jokes, and you’d think “we were divorced and moving into different homes.” “I married him because he was the love of my life.” Then she talks about kids. After Friends, she says. Less than a year later, on January 7, 2005, they announced their separation. The divorce was final that October. Pitt went on to raise six children — with Jolie. So who was more honest in this video: Jennifer, or the old clip of Brad?

A billionaire was asked under oath if he had sexual contact with hundreds of underage girls. He didn’t say no. It’s 2010. Jeffrey Epstein is sitting in a conference room in West Palm Beach, in front of a camera, and a lawyer representing his victims opens with this: “How long have you been sexually attracted to underage minor females?” His own attorney jumps in: “Are you kidding?” Two years before this, Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor. Federal prosecutors had already signed a secret deal not to charge him. He served 13 months in a county jail, and he was let out 12 hours a day, six days a week, to go to his office. In the video below, the questions keep coming. Did he touch them when they were 13, 14 and 15? Was he ever diagnosed with a sex addiction to minors? Was he abused as a child? Did he have sexual contact with hundreds of underage girls in the last ten years? Every single time, he says he would love to answer. Every single time, he takes the Fifth. Then he goes on the attack and calls the lawyer’s old firm a criminal enterprise. When he’s asked if he was abused as a kid, he doesn’t answer. He just sighs. After this, he went back to his life. The private island. The private jet the press called the Lolita Express. Dinners with presidents, princes and billionaires. Nine years later he was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges. A month after that he was found dead in his cell in Manhattan. The two guards on duty had falsified their records. The cameras outside his cell malfunctioned. He never answered a single one of these questions. Was the Fifth Amendment protecting his rights, or protecting everyone who was ever in the room with him?

Edmund Kemper killed ten people. Six of them were young women he picked up hitchhiking around Santa Cruz in 1972 and 1973. He was 6 foot 9 with a tested IQ of 145. The newspapers called him the Co-ed Killer. Netflix rebuilt him for Mindhunter, and the actor who played him was nominated for an Emmy. Every one of those women got into his car willingly. In the video below, filmed in prison for a 1984 documentary, Kemper explains how. The whole county was terrified of a killer picking up students. Police begged girls to stop hitchhiking. And the girls who got into Kemper’s car spent the ride talking about that killer. What he looked like. How he carried himself. Why he was doing it. They told all of it to him. They trusted him for a reason. His mother worked at UC Santa Cruz, so his car had a campus sticker. Students had been told to ride only in cars with that sticker. He says it kept getting easier. He started taking risks on purpose, at night, under his mother’s windows, almost daring someone to look outside. Then the interviewer asks about the heads. Why he kept them. He goes back to his childhood. His father killed the family’s pet chickens with a hatchet, and his mother made him eat them for dinner. He remembers riding his bike around the block, crying. He stops and says he hasn’t talked about that in years. The worst moment comes at the end. He describes walking up the stairs to his apartment with a camera bag nobody would ever guess the contents of. A young couple passes him on their way out on a date. They smile and say good evening. He says he could feel the wheels squeaking inside his head. He had killed before. At 15 he shot his grandparents and was locked in a state hospital. Doctors let him out at 21. In September 1972, two psychiatrists interviewed him and declared he was no longer a danger to anyone. His latest victim’s head was in the trunk of his car, parked outside. In April 1973 he killed his own mother. Then he drove to Colorado, pulled over at a phone booth and called the Santa Cruz police to turn himself in. They didn’t believe him at first. He had to call back. He asked for the death penalty. He got life. Was Ed Kemper born a monster, or a boy that everyone from his parents to his doctors kept failing until it was far too late?