On February 1, 2008, Spears was involuntarily placed into conservatorship by her father, Jamie Spears, and attorney Andrew M Wallet, after the singer had exhibited erratic behavior in public for several months. Spears claimed the action that prompted the settlement was simply “using a British accent to get a doctor to prescribe my medication… three days later there was a Swat team at my house, three helicopters.” She described the “extent of my madness” as “playing paparazzi chase, which is still to this day one of the most fun things I’ve done to be famous, so I don’t know what was so harmful about it.” He claimed the deal was “all premeditated” and said – apparently referring to Lou M Taylor, Spears’ former business manager and the figure believed to have introduced Jamie Spears to the idea of the conservator – “a woman pitched me the idea. My dad and mom really helped him get on and do it all.” Taylor has denied any involvement in its creation. “There were no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing. It was pure abuse and I haven’t shared half of it,” Spears said. The Guardian has contacted representatives for Jamie Spears for comment. In response to the tape, Spears’ mother, Lynne Spears, posted a photo of the pair on Instagram with a lengthy caption insisting she had tried to help her daughter. “Brittney, all your life I’ve tried to support your dreams and desires! And also, I tried my best to help you out of difficulties! I will never turn my back on you! Your rejections of the countless times I’ve thrown out and calls make me feel hopeless! I have tried everything. I love you so much, but this conversation is just for you and me, face to face, in person.’ Spears said she was put to work right after her two-week hospital stay when she was “completely out of my mind,” filming a TV show and starting work on her 2008 album Circus. “All I remember is that I had to do what I was told. I was told I was fat every day, I had to go to the gym… I can never remember feeling so down… I was made to feel like nothing and I carried on because I was scared.” Britney Spears performs in Las Vegas in February 2016. Photo: Denise Truscello/BSLV In 2013, Spears began living in Las Vegas. She has previously said she was only given an allowance of $2,000 a week for a four-year run of shows that earned £138m. In the new note, she lamented that her dancers were allowed to entertain the nights she had to live by her father’s rules, describing it as “this conspiracy of people treating me like a superstar, but they treated me like nothing.” . . During her stay, she said she hatched a plan with a man with whom she was having a “secret relationship” to get her out of the country. She was working on her ninth album, 2016’s Glory, when Spears said she “started to get a spark back.” “I think with confidence comes enlightenment, which makes you think better, and that was the last thing they wanted me to do – was to really get better. Because then, who would be in control? But it was really hard because I just had to play this role that everything was okay all the time and I had to go with it because I knew they could hurt me.” However, he claimed that he was then forced to go on tour. In one rehearsal, she previously claimed in her June 2021 deposition at a court hearing for the conservatory, she refused to accept any new choreography. “The next day, they told me that they had to send me to a facility and that I had to say on my Instagram that the reason is because my father is sick and I need treatment.” When she protested to her father, she claimed he told her: “Now, you don’t have to go, but if you don’t, we’re going to court and there’s going to be a big trial and you’re going to lose. I have a lot more people on my side than you. You don’t even have a lawyer. So don’t even think about it.” At this point in her life, Spears said she “kind of stopped believing in God… I didn’t know how 40 people could leave my house every day and make me work from 8 to 6 at night, being seen every time changed in the shower, no privacy, no door, nothing… I couldn’t even smoke cigarettes. Death row inmates can smoke cigarettes.” Protesters from the #FreeBritney movement outside the Los Angeles courthouse where Spears gave her testimony. Photo: Étienne Laurent/EPA She claimed the noise caused by the growing #FreeBritney movement meant the owner of the facility had to let her out. “The whole thing that really confused me is that these people are on the street fighting for me, but my sister and my mother are not doing anything. To me it was like they secretly, honestly, liked me to be the bad guy, like I was messed up and they kind of liked it that way. Otherwise, why weren’t they outside my doorstep saying, “Baby, let’s get in the car, let’s go?” In January, Spears chided her sister Jamie Lynn Spears for selling the memoir “at my expense.” Jamie Lynn replied: “It’s tiring when the conversations and messages we have privately don’t match what you post on social media. I know you’re going through a lot and I never want to diminish that, but I also can’t diminish myself.” When she returned home, she said she found two people to help her with treatment – unlike the kind she claimed she was undergoing at the facility. “Why treat when it’s forced and in a combative, almost prison-like way?” She stopped talking to her father. “Finally, I think they just knew I wasn’t coming back.” Prayer and being able to hire her own attorney, Matthew Rosengart, helped her get through it, she said. Previously, attempts to hire a lawyer through her own phone had been thwarted, she said, because her phone was bent and would be taken from her. Spears’ conservatorship was terminated by a judge in November 2021. Since its dissolution, Spears has married her longtime boyfriend, Iranian-American actor Sam Asghari. Under the terms of the conservatorship, she was not allowed to marry or manage her birth control, she told the court. Spears said she had turned down an opportunity to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey about her experiences. “Getting paid to tell your story, I feel like it’s kind of silly,” he said. He also said that he had been afraid of others’ judgment and that he was ashamed. She could share her story now, she said, because she had gained more confidence. She was referring to Hold Me Closer, her new duet with Elton John released on August 26. “I have an amazing song right now with one of the most brilliant men of our time and I’m so grateful. “But if you’re a weird, introverted weirdo, like me, who feels lonely a lot of the time, and you needed to hear a story like this today so you wouldn’t feel alone, know this: my life has been far from easy, and you’re not single”.
