Michelle Williams is just like us and completely lost it when Britney Spears reached out.

The Brokeback Mountain star was handpicked to narrate the audiobook version of Spears memoir, The Woman in Me , to rather viral results . While Williams has five Oscar nominations under her belt, this unexpected offer appeared to be the role of a lifetime.

We lost it, fellow actor and close friend Busy Philipps told Andy Cohen on Wednesdays Watch What Happens Live episode. She was like, I have to do this, right? I was like, Yes! Obviously! And shes like, I really do, Biz. She really felt a connection.

Williams had clear reasons to feel that way. Though she didnt endure a 13-year conservatorship like Spears, Williams started out as a child actor who emancipated herself as a teen and had to navigate the perils of Hollywood. The actor has also faced hardship as an adult, including when Heath Ledger, her ex-partner and the father to her daughter, died in 2008.

We all and Michelle, even younger than me we all came up in a very particular time in this industry, that was what the majority of my memoir is about, as young women, and we were subjected to a lot, Philipps told Cohen.

I think that there was a lot that was, sadly, very relatable to all women in Britneys book, but I thought that Michelle doing it was just incredible and really beautiful, she continued. Britney deserves our respect.