‘They made me really feel like nothing’: Britney Spears addresses conservatorship

By AFP

NEW YORK: Britney Spears on Sunday launched a prolonged audio message in regards to the controversial guardianship that stored her primarily underneath her father’s management for greater than 13 years.

A Los Angeles choose in November 2021 dissolved the conservatorship lengthy overseen by Spears’ father — an association the singer mentioned had prevented her from having a contraceptive IUD eliminated regardless of her want for extra children.

The audio message was initially tweeted by Spears with out remark however the hyperlink was then deleted. The 22 minutes of audio of Spears’ voice stay accessible on-line, nonetheless.

“I woke up this morning and I realized there’s a lot going on in my head that I haven’t shared with anyone,” Spears says within the uncooked, emotional recording.

She then particulars the conservatorship, echoing what she instructed a California court docket in a bombshell listening to final summer time.

The now 40-year-old describes being pressured to work and tour, and barred from seeing buddies or driving her personal automotive.

Spears says that her cellphone was tapped, and she or he felt unsafe asking for assist.

“They made me feel like nothing, and I went along with it,” Spears says, describing being fat-shamed.

“It was demoralizing,” Spears says.

“You also have to understand, it was like 15 years of touring and doing shows. And I’m 30 years old, living under my dad’s rules. And while all of this is going on, my mom’s witnessing this, my brother, my friends — they all go along with it.”

Spears rocketed to fame in her teenagers on hits like “…Baby One More Time,” turning into one of many world’s reigning pop stars.

But she suffered a extremely publicized 2007 breakdown, which included attacking a paparazzo’s automotive at a fuel station.

The conservatorship started in 2008. It did not formally finish till November 2021, after the pop phenom’s father Jamie Spears was faraway from his place answerable for her funds and property at a listening to in September.

Since gaining her freedom, Spears has married her boyfriend Sam Asghari.

On Friday she launched her first new music in six years, a duet with Elton John known as “Hold Me Closer,” a dance-inflected tackle John’s ballad “Tiny Dancer.”

NEW YORK: Britney Spears on Sunday launched a prolonged audio message in regards to the controversial guardianship that stored her primarily underneath her father’s management for greater than 13 years.

A Los Angeles choose in November 2021 dissolved the conservatorship lengthy overseen by Spears’ father — an association the singer mentioned had prevented her from having a contraceptive IUD eliminated regardless of her want for extra children.

The audio message was initially tweeted by Spears with out remark however the hyperlink was then deleted. The 22 minutes of audio of Spears’ voice stay accessible on-line, nonetheless.

“I woke up this morning and I realized there’s a lot going on in my head that I haven’t shared with anyone,” Spears says within the uncooked, emotional recording.

She then particulars the conservatorship, echoing what she instructed a California court docket in a bombshell listening to final summer time.

The now 40-year-old describes being pressured to work and tour, and barred from seeing buddies or driving her personal automotive.

Spears says that her cellphone was tapped, and she or he felt unsafe asking for assist.

“They made me feel like nothing, and I went along with it,” Spears says, describing being fat-shamed.

“It was demoralizing,” Spears says.

“You also have to understand, it was like 15 years of touring and doing shows. And I’m 30 years old, living under my dad’s rules. And while all of this is going on, my mom’s witnessing this, my brother, my friends — they all go along with it.”

Spears rocketed to fame in her teenagers on hits like “…Baby One More Time,” turning into one of many world’s reigning pop stars.

But she suffered a extremely publicized 2007 breakdown, which included attacking a paparazzo’s automotive at a fuel station.

The conservatorship started in 2008. It did not formally finish till November 2021, after the pop phenom’s father Jamie Spears was faraway from his place answerable for her funds and property at a listening to in September.

Since gaining her freedom, Spears has married her boyfriend Sam Asghari.

On Friday she launched her first new music in six years, a duet with Elton John known as “Hold Me Closer,” a dance-inflected tackle John’s ballad “Tiny Dancer.”