It's rare that a stage-managed pop star can break free of her chains, but all of America bore witness to a time in Britney Spears's life when a gum-smacking "Y'all!" became a Klonopin-chomping "Y'allllllll." Now, Spears appears to be back on the wagon and of sound mind, body, and hair, but she confesses in the new documentary Britney: For the Record that she almost prefers the bald ol' days:

In a new fly-on-the-wall documentary she tearfully admits: “There’s no excitement, there’s no passion. “I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. “But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day.” She says: “I think it’s too in control. If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening...I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.”

Though we feel for Spears, we hope she can at least put her Groundhog Day-itis to good use. Think of what she could achieve by using that neverending loop to master the piano, save Lynne Spears from buying the same terrible Ed Hardy blouse every day at Kitson, and discover enough about ex-husband Kevin Federline (fun fact: he cries at the end of each episode of Kitchen Nightmares) to woo him back into her good, Cheeto-streaked graces. [Photo Credit: x17]