Britney Spears is due in court today for an expedited hearing on her conservatorship. I have no idea if we’re nearing the endgame on Britney’s conservatorship or if this is going to take a lot longer. But people are really paying attention to it now, and a lot of people are rooting for Britney. I should note, I suppose, that Britney doesn’t even seem to be arguing against some form of conservatorship in general. I think she would like someone to watch over her money and help her manage her life. This is specifically about her father, Jamie Spears, and how much control he has exerted over Britney’s life for the better part of thirteen years. The NY Times published a piece on Tuesday describing how Britney has bristled under her father’s control, and she had been questioning his suitability as conservator for many years:
Jamie’s PR versus Britney’s reality: Her father and others involved in the conservatorship maintained that it was a smooth-running machine that had rescued her from a low point and benefited Ms. Spears, and that she could move to end it whenever she wanted. But now, confidential court records obtained by The New York Times reveal that Ms. Spears, 39, expressed serious opposition to the conservatorship earlier and more often than had previously been known, and said that it restricted everything from whom she dated to the color of her kitchen cabinets.
Britney had long sought to remove her dad: “She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report. The system had “too much control,” Ms. Spears said, according to the investigator’s account of the conversation. “Too, too much!” Ms. Spears informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible. “She is ‘sick of being taken advantage of’ and she said she is the one working and earning her money but everyone around her is on her payroll,” the investigator wrote. In 2019, Ms. Spears told the court that she had felt forced by the conservatorship into a stay at a mental health facility and to perform against her will.
She wanted Jamie gone in 2014: The newly obtained court records show that Ms. Spears questioned his fitness for the role. As early as 2014, in a hearing closed to the public, Ms. Spears’s court-appointed lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, said she wanted to explore removing her father as conservator, citing his drinking, among other objections on a “shopping list” of grievances.
Jamie maintains that Britney could end the conservatorship at any time: “Any time Britney wants to end her conservatorship, she can ask her lawyer to file a petition to terminate it; she has always had this right but in 13 years has never exercised it,” Vivian Lee Thoreen, a lawyer for Mr. Spears, said in a statement to People earlier this year. “Britney knows that her Daddy loves her, and that he will be there for her whenever and if she needs him, just as he always has been — conservatorship or not.”
Jamie controls the money: Ms. Spears said her father was “obsessed” with her and wanted to control everything about her, according to the investigator’s report. She could not make friends without his approval. Even as she earned millions from a successful Las Vegas residency, she said she was limited to a $2,000 weekly allowance, according to the records. Any mistakes resulted in “very harsh” consequences, Ms. Spears added, according to the report. The conservatorship “comes with a lot of fear,” she said.
Something I keep thinking about: in 2018, Kevin Federline went to court to request an increase in his child support payments from Britney, and Jamie threw a fit. K-Fed and his lawyer reacted calmly and requested an audit of Britney’s finances. Before the judge could order an audit, Jamie quietly settled out of court with K-Fed and Kevin got more money than he was asking for. Which brings me to something I’ve felt for many years: there is something deeply rotten with the financial aspect of Britney’s conservatorship, and if people begin pulling at that thread, that’s the way to remove Jamie Spears. But yeah, of course Jamie exerted control of Britney’s life as well. I remember saying that more than a decade ago and Britney-fans yelling about how great she was doing and how she lived independently and all of that. No. Jamie always had too much control.
Photos courtesy of Britney’s IG, Avalon Red and Backgrid.
I hope Britney get to live her happily ever after with freedom to be who she wants to be. She deserves it.
I hope she’s able to get an objective conservator to genuinely help her instead of being under her father’s control. It seems to me that she does need that extra looking after due to mental health issues, but her father should not be so wrapped up in her life and especially her finances.
But why does she even need a conservator? If she is well enough to work, she should be trusted to take care of herself. This would never have happened if she was a man.
Exactly. What people keep forgetting is that conservatorships are not for people who are well enough to work. Britney can and does work, so a conservatorship is not appropriate. There are other options to help her manage her finances and physical/mental health. Jamie is almost definitely using her for his own financial interests.
Well that’s what I want to know. She’s not well enough to manage her life and finances but she’s ok to be pushed out on stage and perform? This conservatorship has nothing to do with her well being and everything to do with her money. What is the point in her working if she doesn’t even get to see her own money? Her mental health would improve massively without a conservatorship, but they don’t want her to ‘improve’,
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were drugging her to keep her down.
I don’t understand what the issue is but you can be well enough to work and still have serious mental health issues. She’s not pressed to end the conservatorship, per say, she just wants him gone. If she didn’t want him,he should not have been put in that position in the first place, I know at one point she wanted her Mom and the Dad blocked it. He needs to go.
It might well be that her wealth really comes into play here in keeping the conservatorship in place. She could be particularly vulnerable to the Sam Lutfis of the world who see a huge fortune that they could control. Having her dad in control of everything doesn’t seem desirable, though. She should have competent third parties helping with her finances. Mental health professionals should help her decide if and how she could work if that’s what she wants (or needs for structure).
Brittany needs a competent financial manager, a competent career manager, and a competent medical adviser. Jamie is none of those things but acts as all of those things.
“ritney knows that her Daddy loves her”
This statement actually chills me a little. They are talking about a 39 year old woman. Stop infantilizing her.
Yeah – that adds some weight to the statement that he’s obsessed with her.
I thought this was weird and creepy too.
It honestly sounds like asking a victim of abuse, why didnt you just leave? insinuating they didn’t because its not that bad. As if an abusive relationship involves respecting consent and people’s feelings so theyd be just free to leave? Youre trying not to poke the bear the abuser would get even more mad if you tried to keave, britney herself said theres a lot of fear here
He’s distressed that she is making so much more money than him and is so successful and this is a disturbing way for him to keep her ‘in line.’ They’ve never had a good relationship and having the lawyer try to make it sound like they do … this would never have happened to a young boy band member or musician … imagine your parent being in charge at that age and the judge not listening. Where are the checks and balances? The full NYT article was very illuminating … the way the media portrayed her dad as a hero for years and years is also so disturbing.
She reminds me, in some ways, of Judy Garland, who worked her whole damn life, supported everyone, and died broke.
Yes! Very sad!
She reminds me a little of Marilyn Monroe, too. Very fragile and almost childlike. Even in younger photos, you could see a slight physical resemblance to her – widow’s peak, wide-set eyes, similar nose and a bright smile. I wish someone decent and kind could watch over her.
I read elsewhere that Britney also voiced concerns about her father’s drinking. So she was under the control of a man with a drinking problem who controlled what she did and all of her money… this is beyond heartbreaking to imagine. She struggled with her mental health and then was put into a situation that was arguably worse and possibly abusive, and legally sanctioned?
Did the courts investigate the drinking claims? You can’t be drunk at work. Full stop.
I read somewhere this morning that she wanted her Father drug/alcohol tested because she knew he was drinking and the judge denied it. Said she was in no position to request that.
There is an instagram page following all of this. I believe it’s called FreeBritney. That’s probably where I read that bit about the drinking.
Honestly how was he not removed when the restraining order against him for attacking one of his grandsons went through?
The New York Times article (same one) is where they talk about his possible drinking and her wanting him tested and the judge sounded outraged that she would request such a thing saying it was “inappropriate.” It seems like the judges can’t wrap their minds around the fact that this man they have put for years in charge of this woman might not have been the right person – not that she ever needed this conservatorship. And, yes, the fact that Kevin was able to get a restraining order against him for her sons! Where is he showing up as an exemplary person here?
I mean, she started the conservatorship with 100M and a decade and a half, multiple high selling albums, sold out world tours, and Vegas domination she’s now worth 60M according to the most recent court records. The math don’t math.
And Kevin knew it and took advantage, which his kids are going to figure out at the end of this (oh boy)
Also Jamie assaulted the boys and has and active restraining order against him that now limits Britney’s custody b/c she’s legally in his custody. Just a mess.
If her father has a drinking problem he should absolutely not be the one in charge of her money and her life. The fact that he has gotten away with having that amount of control over his daughter for so many years…
It makes more sense that a disinterested third party would be in control of the money. I have a tenant who is special needs. Her siblings set up a trust that pays her bills and gives her a predetermined amount of spending money each month. It works well. Why is her dad in control of the money instead of a trust or a law firm?
You do not want a disinterested 3rd party in charge. As a parent of a child with special needs, that would be my worst nightmare.
No, there is a reason why 3rd parties are often preferred. 1.) They are financially disinterested. 2.) They can be objective. Family members can be good guardians, but they are far more given to denialism. I have seen it, sadly. I was involved in a case where we had a special needs young man (let’s call him Ben). Ben suffered from a variety of conditions, and part of his issue was that he really did not do well around other people. He had autism as well as schizoaffective behavior, and had more than a few incidents with others – since he was prone to delusional thoughts. Everybody who worked with Ben was in agreement that he would benefit from a highly structured, rigid lifestyle that a secure mental health facility could provide. Ben’s mother, his guardian, operated under the belief that Ben was just “eccentric” and didn’t need such a thing, even after repeated contacts with law enforcement, the courts, etc. Now, Ben’s mom isn’t a bad person, but her closeness to him meant that she couldn’t be honest about his condition. It took years to wrestle the guardianship from her and hand it to a third party who admitted Ben to a facility where he is able to live peacefully.
That’s just one story, I have others. Many parents are not like Ben’s mom and can be honest about their kid’s situation, but many aren’t. Third parties are neutral and can see things with dispassionate eyes, and that often helps.
I’m feeling for Britney.
I always hated how she was pushed to work so soon after her troubles. If she wasn’t well enough to control her own life, she wasn’t well enough to go out and perform night after night.
It sounds like she needs a business manager for her money, and a personal manager to help with her day to day life. A LOT of celebrities have those, and I hope the courts give her the opportunity to do that, rather than having her father controlling everything. He needs to just step back and be her dad only.
This story has been sad for so many years. I hope Britney can be free from her dad and also be protected properly. She deserves peace and even though it’s not of my business I do hope we get to see her find closure to this mess.
Don’t mind me, I’m in a mood today.
Girl gets $2k a week and I’m broke until the first. No money, zero, and I’m praying my gas gets me through until next week. I’m lucky and incredibly grateful that I have food at my house to feed my kids. It’ll be hotdogs with sandwich bread, but they don’t care.
Point – There are worse ways to live.
? People can still be mistreated who have more money than us
Britney is lining other people’s pockets while she lives on a very small fraction of what she makes, thats what makes this situation suspect
Yeah that’s not the point. No one is saying that we feel bad for her because that’s not enough money. She’s a millionaire, because SHE earned it. Yet, her dad and team are using her money (to even pay for their own legal counsel) and keeping her away from it. She’s not allowed to make her own choices, regarding her kids, career, or friends.
This isn’t the trauma Olympics. You can be suffering and so can she, in different ways.
@Nicole Except your personal plights have nothing to do with a woman who has been unfairly controlled all of her life. NO ONE DESERVES ABUSE, no matter if they’re rich or poor. And just because she’s rich doesn’t mean she deserves to be controlled in this way. This is not a question of your finances but about Spears’ father financially and emotionally abusing her.
+1
@Nicole I get why you’re annoyed and frustrated. Britney does have a lot of privilege when comparing her to the average person. Personally, I wouldn’t want to trade with her, but I can see why other people in less than desirable circumstances might.
I want whatever Britney wants. I think she wants and deserves to be out completely, but I can’t read her mind or know the ins and outs of her situation.
However, I think the larger issue is the systemic abuse that is happening with guardianships. This situation is not unique to Britney. There are a lot of people who are in similar situations but don’t have the funds or media attention to help themselves. If it is this hard for Britney to get out or just advocate for herself, imagine how difficult it would be for a regular person.
Point – Conservatorship abuse is very real and I hope the media attention can pivot to help even more people in these situations.
Britney’s, a Millionaire, how the hell you give a millionaire 2000 thousand dollars a week? She worth millions you’re not, and you’re really ignorant to compare your situation to Britney’s. You act as if she inherited her millions, verse she worked her ass off for it.
This is not about money. It’s about being in charge of your own life. Would you want someone managing your every move? Telling you how to live, who to date, how to raise your children in exchange for a weekly allowance?
I’m always apprehensive about parents who put young children to work in the entertainment business. He uses her as his money making machine and has her exactly where he needs her. This whole situation is misogynistic. There are plenty of people with bipolar who take medication and leave normal lives without a conservatorship. Why do this to her?
Yes, he is taking advantage of her as he has her entire life. If I remember correctly, even her mother was against Jamie becoming her conservator. Since she spoke out, it was apparent that she knew that he was using his daughter to support himself, and let’s face it. If he truly loved her, he would have set her up with the right set of people to help her cope with her issues and stayed put of her conservatorship. Instead, we have another example of a parent taking advantage of their children’s success in Hollywood that live off of their child’s work. It’s been happening for decades and until some of the child stars became older and were able to file lawsuits against their parents, it was as common as making a phone call. Just as Merricat stated, Judy Garland was supporting everyone in her career and she died broke.
Jamie needs to step away and pay back what he has taken. And Britney is capable of creating an excellent group of advisors to manage her career. As for K-Fed, what an asshole to take advantage of the situation to get him more money for the kids. He knew exactly what he was doing and knows that Jamie is up to no good. Another asshole in her life!
Lynne Spears have a nerve to call Jamie out – she is the original Kris Kardashian who leeched off Brit for years. Brit cut her mother out of her life for good reasons – Lynne turned a blind eye to Britney partying and drug use so she could life off Brit and get her own celebrity life. Remember the books the Lynne wrote about Britney – both Spears parents have a lot to answer for when it comes to Brit.
She hasn’t been publicly diagnosed with bipolar disorder. We need to keep in mind that we do not know the details of her mental health issues.
The biggest takeaway from the article for me was how many times Britney has protested in court over the years and the judges just sided with her dad. Like the court just isn’t listening to her.
Britney actually sounds incredibly mature and intelligent in this situation. She seems to recognize that she benefits from a conservatorship and isn’t trying to get it eliminated, she just wants a neutral third party to be in chare, rather than her dad. She has an incredible self-awareness.
Her father’s lawyer statement is really telling – “oh, we’d let her out whenever she wants.” They’re presenting her with a false choice – either accept your father controlling your life or get rid of the conservatorship entirely.
Oh good point. My way or the highway
She stated in court today that she wants the conservatorship to end ASAP.
She also stated that she has been abused for years by her father, her supposedly independent co-conservator Jodi, her Trappist, her management, etc.
She is being forced to remained on an IUD, can’t get married, can’t drive, can’t even go for a car ride in her boyfriend’s care with him unless Daddy approves (and he doesn’t). She was forced to attend a fake rehab (which she was forced to spend 60k a month for) and while she was there the so-called rehab employees refused to leave the room when she undressed. She was told if she didn’t comply with every one of her father’s demands she would be institutionalized, she wouldn’t be allowed to see her kids or her boyfriend, that her money would be taken away, etc. They took her off her normal meds and put her on lithium. When she was incapacitated by side effects, her father refused to get her help.
She also stated she’d like to sue everyone connected to her conservatorship for abuse – starting with Jamie and her relatives. I hope she gets the chance. They should be made to answer for what they’ve done to her.
I hope one day, if she’s ever freed, she hires a forensic accountant. The fact that she’s had to foot the bill for her abusers for over a decade is horrifying.
I listened to her testimony. She sounded strong, rational, angry and nervous. I don’t understand how this mess has been allowed to persist this long, 13 years.
I don’t think it should be ended. She made some horrible decisions before that. I don’t know what her issues are but I don’t feel ending the conservatorship is the best thing. Maybe remove her dadznd put an impartial person?
I don’t think it should end either. They should remove her father , but it should be someone who does have an interest in her safety. She is not a well woman. The official court document listed dementia other, which is so sad, and even if that’s a catch all for something else, unfortunately she cannot make life sustaining decisions. She accidentally burnt down her own studio and that’s with supervision. She isn’t permitted custody of the children. It seems she can’t give an interview at this stage without being coached through it. Her choice in friends before the conservatorship were abusers and hangers on. 2,000 a week is a lot of money for incidentals when all her real expenses would get paid by the conservatorship, including housing, food, child care and other supplies. This isn’t meant as a criticism of her, I just think she truly needs protected and is no more capable of handling herself than she was a decade ago.
A conservatorship is not appropriate for someone as young as Britney who is still well enough (physically and mentally) to work. I’ve not seen anyone argue that she should be unleashed on the world without any support at all. But right now, she can’t even get married again or have custody of her own kids.
And keep in mind that she did just fine as a judge on The X Factor. If you’re looking at her social media as evidence that she can’t get through an interview without coaching, her social media accounts are managed through her conservatorship and are questionable “evidence” at best.
I agree, Fleur. I think Britney’s dad’s worst nightmare is that she gives away all her money to grifters, and then when he dies and as she enters old age, she will not have enough funds to cover her extensive security and medical needs for decades to come.
Courts have upheld the conservatorship many times, so it seems it IS appropriate for someone like Britney. I don’t see how people can say that it’s not appropriate when they don’t know her medical condition (but the courts do). There’s no blanket law that says if someone can “work” they don’t have serious mental health issues. Not all work is the same, so maybe she can do choreography, but has other issues with logic/reasoning/assessing danger, etc.
Plenty of people make horrible decisions. Should every single one of them have their rights permanently stripped away? Forget the money. She doesn’t even have bodily autonomy anymore. She is being forced to remain on birth control against her will. She can’t get married.
She isn’t even allowed to go for a car ride with her boyfriend.
This would never happen to a male celebrity. You don’t see Robert Downey Jr or Charlie Sheen or Kanye having to pay their relatives to rob and abuse them because they suffer from mental illness and made mistakes.
Downey went to jail, sure, but no one stuck him in a conservatorship when he got high, broke into someone’s home, and passed out in a strange kid’s bedroom.
But here is Britney, 13 years on, still having to kowtow to her greedy abusive father – and paying him for the privilege.
He can’t really care very much about her well-being, he is not even there. According to the NYT article, he is living in an RV parked at a storage facility in Louisiana. If that’s how it’s going to be she may as well have a professional conservator and cut off his access to the money.
My head is spinning from all the bizarre bits of information in the article, including the one you mentioned. Like what the actual fork is going on with these people?
That doesn’t sound like someone who’s money hungry. Jamie Spears isn’t Dina Lohan or Kris Jenner.
He only moved in an RV recently to save face when he found out Britney would give a deposition in her case, and he also sold her house in Louisiana because there were talks of a forensic account if she wins and she would be capable of suing him. He mishandled millions of dollars. He’s an acholic, after all.
@Tiffany- the man was forcing her to work against her will, then taking a cut of her earnings while still being paid as her conservator, and only giving her a small weekly allowance.That’s not money hungry? He actually seems worse than Kris Jenner. At least Kris lets her kids live their own lives.
Team Britney here.
This woman has been working and financially supporting her entire extended family since she was a young teenager and IMO, yes she has mental health issues, but she does not want her Father to have complete control any longer.
I hope she gains control of her life, and retires from public life.
She deserves to be as happy as possible, I hope she does well.
The entire point of the conservatorship is to protect Britney from undue influence, yet her father (possible drinking problem, abuse and all) is given undue influence.
How is he qualified to manage her finances, health and career other than this paternalistic idea that as her father he gets to control her?
Everyone else has already said, and way more eloquently than I could, everything I think about Britney’s conservatorship. I hope this is the end (or the beginning of the end!) of her father’s control over her life. And while I know that it’s partially because of media and fan coverage that this is finally happening, my heart breaks that so much of the details of her situation have been made public. For someone who has had so much of her privacy violated in so many different ways by so many different people, I’m just so sad that this whole process is so public.
After her running around with Sam Lutfi and that Adnan person, can you blame the man for controlling who she dates?
I want the best for Britney. I hope everything works out for her. She makes me so sad.
She was in a really, REALLY bad place when she was involved with those leeches. I believe she has said she was suffering PPD, and probably other issues, and was a victim of the horrific paparazzi and regular media too. That was like 10-12 years ago at this point. I would hope she is not forever judged based on her actions at that time. I think the conservatorship was the right decision at the time, but never should have been able to carry on this long, if her health has greatly improved.
There are so many people who make ‘bad’ choices in friendships and relationships; some who have a lot of money, and they don’t get put in conservatorships! Imagine your whole life being determined by what you did at 24, 25, 26!!
She’s not in a conservatorship because she made bad choices in friends 12 years ago. She has serious ongoing mental health issues, details of which we do not know. The courts do know, however, and they have kept the conservatorship in place.
@Tiffany: Your argument presupposes that the conservatorship (and courts) are correct. She’s in a conservatorship, so obviously she deserves to be in it. If she wasn’t in one, she wouldn’t deserve to be in a conversatorship. The argument is circular and makes no sense.
@psl I’m curious, let’s say one day you have a total nervous breakdown. Do you feel the court should then be able to indefinitely hand over complete control of your body, money, career – your entire life down to the most minute decisions – to your relatives, and force you to pay for it, too?
@Tiffany Conservatorship abuse is rampant in the US. The courts seldom do anything to stop it.
The courts are overworked. They don’t have the time, the resources, or frankly the will, to thoroughly investigate every conservatorship.
This was a lesson my family learned the hard way when my late uncle’s wife managed to get herself appointed as my grandmother’s conservator. It took 7 years of court battles to finally get her removed. By that time she had spent 2/3 of my grandmother’s life savings.
My point? Ending a conservatorship once one is established can be extremely difficult. Even in cases where obvious abuse is taking place. And when – like Britney – you have no outside help from family or friends? Well, then it’s damn near impossible. She can’t even hire a lawyer to fight her father. Her father has to sign off to give her permission to hire a lawyer. And even then she can’t actually choose her own lawyer. One is appointed for her. What are the odds she’s receiving good (ie adequate) legal representation in a situation like that?
I am focusing on the highest and best possible outcome for Britney. I have such a soft spot for her.
I’m going to spout my completely uninformed opinion, knowing that parasocial relationships with celebrities lead people to think they know people they don’t. But this is just what i think. While i think Britney has definitely been through trauma caused by her celebrity, I’ve never thought she was incapable of running her own life. Did she get wild in 2007? Absolutely, but the conditions under which she lived were wild. If I’m sitting on a bench, screaming and cursing, that’s possibly evidence of mental imbalance. If I’m making those same sounds while attacked by bees or with my leg in a bear trap, it’s a normal response. If I just jump out of a window, that’s obvious self-harm. If my building’s on fire and all of the exits are blocked, it’s an understandable reaction. Even from the outside, Britney’s 2007 could be described as a swarm of bees, combined with a bear trap in a burning building. I think the real problem is that she would have been happier taking her sizeable enough pile of money, building some kind of compound in the woods near where she grew up and having babies and making the owner of the local Starbucks franchise a millionaire. She had enough money to do it. She talked about that being what she wanted. But a sizeable chunk of the public wants to be famous and to them this is “crazy talk.” More disastrously, she’s not making anyone any money that way. So here comes the conservatorship, where she’s made to work and drugged to feel happy about it. (To be clear, I have no issue with psychoactive meds. I was on antidepressants myself after being orphaned in my teens. I just think that in THIS instance, they were forcibly administered as a method of control. She may or may not have needed them, but Jamie Spears is an untrustworthy judge.) I’ve understood woman’s life to be a Margaret Atwood-esque nightmare since the first NYT article all those years ago. The sad part is that this long crackdown on Britney’s life will have done a great deal of damage (Listen to the Shrink Next Door podcast; that guy gave up control of his life to his shrink and wrested it back…but he’s a little broken). There’s almost no use wondering what would have happened if Britney had continued to be allowed to rage against her conditions in 2007 (how i see her “breakdown”), but my totally uninformed belief is that she would have come through. She definitely wouldn’t have made producing wealth for others her #1 priority, so we’ll never know. If I’m going to extend my unfounded opinions into fan theory, a thicc Britney would have taken a break from retirement in 2020 to do a hook on a Megan Thee Stallion song while her 6 kids made tik toks about their embarrassment.
If everyone who struggled with mental health issues had to have a ‘conservatorship we all would have one. Or if everyone on SSRIs was not allowed to make independent decisions because they had mental issues. None of these are valid reasons at all. Britney had every reason to break down in 2008 with what was done to her. Everyone (read her Dad and others who had $ signs in their eyes) took advantage of that and locked up and controlled her money since then.
It all should end.
She can manage herself, herself, and probably always could. So what if she makes bad decisions? We all do! She will/would have learned, and even if she blew all her money on dumb things that STILL does not mean she needs oversight appointed to her. it is her life and she can live it as she chooses.
conservatorships are genuinely terrifying. i’ve been in one. the amount of power a relative (or in many cases, a stranger) has to take control of you, your actions, and your property is harrowing. BTW, i did not even have to be in court to have my parent file a conservatorship.
because of this, my heart goes out to britney. i honestly sometimes get triggered when talking about this. also, i can understand her NOT wanting to end it– it’s VERY often about the person who is the conservator and whether you can trust them and what they are or are not doing to you or with your finances/property. such is the case with me, i actually needed someone in that role, the crux of the matter was who it was.
I have zero idea of the truth involving The Spears Saga however, Brit needs a accountant/banker & lawyer in charge of her finances. Not family. Not the oddball boyfriend. Not Brit. KFed needs his monthly support cut back to just the two he & Brit have together. Seems nobody wants to actually help her except to help themselves to her money. With, what seems; everybody dipping their hands into her cash; how much can be left?
I don’t trust anyone around her tbh which is very scary
I’m curious as to why she doesn’t do an interview with Oprah or tell her story via her boyfriend’s social media accounts? Is she legally not allowed to talk about herself? And at this point, who cares? Do it anyway.
I am very much concerned about how child-like she is. It seems like she’s 40 going on 18. There is something very wrong with her behavior. I do believe her father stepping in saved her life and career many years ago, but it does sound like he needs to step away and let her go. Maybe she will fail, maybe she won’t.
I imagine because the punishment will be immediate. She’s already tried the legal way and it didn’t work. The outcry may cause her case to be heard again and then what? Same result.
This entire story is so heartbreaking. I can’t imagine how hard it’s been for Britney to deal with, and it’s been 13 years! It’s insane. After reading this NYT story and listening to Britney’s own statement that she made in court, I can’t believe they were able to hide the extent of her abuse for so long.
Her father should be in prison. And the original presiding judge and all of Britney’s therapists, doctors, nurses, rehab centers and etc. should be investigated.. Aren’t all healthcare and mental health professionals mandated reporters? It really seems like everyone was being paid off to look the other way.
If I watched my child’s mental health suffer due to fame, the last thing I would do is have her up on a stage again. Maybe she wants to perform, but you control every other aspect of her life except the one that benefits you? Doesn’t seem like her best interests are being considered.
She’s incredibly brave to speak-out now and I hope she’s safe and won’t face any repercussions from her so-called family. She deserves to live her life on her own terms and in control of what’s she worked so hard for. Hearing her speak, it is clear she can take care of herself and know what EXACTLY is going on; she even said she still needs therapy and help after all she’s been though
but she’s asking for help to get away from her family and the current group of abusers. It’s so obviously clear that her family, management, and past Dr all have EXPLOITED her the past 13 years — all because of the easy access to her $$$. They did not have her best interest but it’s only about THEIR access to her $$ and keeping her in the system of abuse. I can’t even imagine all her suffering. It’s terrifying what she said they did to her. Her entire family should face the consequences of what they did to her. I will pray for her freedom, safety, and happiness in life.
I have always believed Britney Spears mental health is a lot more serious than we know. I think it’s ignorant to comment that she should be left to her own devices as we are not fully privy to the nature of her mental health as the courts are. Wasn’t Dementia listed in court documents? I believe this is something that should stay private. I don’t see the issue in appointing a neutral party who has been vetted properly by the courts and has an interest in looking out what is best for Britney Spears. Say what you want about Jamie he saved his daughter from a very dark point in her life and turned her life around massively. On a side note, I don’t trust that boyfriend of hers and I think he has been in her ear about getting married and having kids. There is a reason why the courts have maintained this conservatorship and we are not fully privy to those reasons.