There's no question Britney Spears has had a tough life, and even tougher critics. Of course, when you go batcrap crazy with a shaved head, well, people are going to be a little nasty. That being said, Britney has always had a wide range of supporters who knew she'd be OK in the end. One more was just added to that list...although I'm not sure I'd want it if I was her.

Britney Spears has come a long way, but Yoko Ono, John Lennon's 76-year-old widow, thinks the pop star deserves more respect.

"I think that the world was not fair to her, and they're just using her and not dignifying her," she told Usmagazine.com at the ThreeAsFour Homage to Yoko Ono on Thursday in NYC.

Up until last year, headlines bearing Spears' name reported on her bizarre psychotic behaviors, drug use, and a tumultuous custody battle with ex Kevin Federline over her two sons, Sean Preston, 4, and Jayden James, 3.

Now, Spears, 27, is hard at work promoting her sixth album, Circus, on a sold-out international tour.

"I think she's a survivor and she's doing very well," Ono told Us Magazine.

Ah, I see, the most hated women in pop-culture, the woman who single-handedly drove apart the greatest musicans of all time, is saying Britney Spears is going to thrive. I think this may actually be a dark omen. I now predict that, in the next year, crops will fail, cows will die, the river will run red with blood, fire and brimstone will come down from the skies, forty years of darkness, the dead will rise from the grave, human sacrifices, dogs and cats living together... Mass hysteria!

When it happens, you can say you heard it here first.