Britney Spears wants out of her conservatorship and delivered a fiery speech before a judge to drive home her point.
The "Toxic" singer revealed on Wednesday that she is angry, depressed and has been lying to her fans about being OK.
In a fiery speech, she told the judge overseeing her longstanding conservatorship, “It’s my wish and my dream for this to end.”
Though her petition to end the conservatorship was not formally filed, it didn’t stop Britney from making her case, THR reports.
During the hearing, Spears interrupted Lauriann Wright, attorney for Jodi Montgomery, the woman in charge of Spears’ personal conservatorship.
She argued that Spears’ privacy and her children’s privacy be protected and anything that implicates those rights be private, Spears interrupted and insisted it all be public.
“They’ve done a good job at exploiting my life, so I feel like it should be an open court hearing, and they should listen to what I have to say,” she said.
The singer read from a written statements before the court.
“A lot has happened since two years ago, the last time I was in court,” Spears said. “I don’t think I was heard on any level when I came to court last time.”
She then continued to detail that she was forced to do a 2018 tour, and forced to change her medication, among a long list of other grievances she said made her feel like a slave.
“Not only did my family not do a goddamn thing, my dad was all for it,” said Spears.
“I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I’m happy,” Spears said, explaining that she was in denial. “If I said that enough, maybe I’d become happy. … I’m in shock. I’m traumatized. … I’m so angry it’s insane.”
Spears disclosed that she wasn’t aware she could petition to end the conservatorship, and that she was told she’d have to be evaluated again in order to do that.
“I’m scared of people. I don’t trust people with what I’ve been through,” said Spears of the idea of seeing another psychiatric specialist. “It’s not OK to force me to do anything I don’t want to do. … I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. I don’t feel like I can live a full life.”
Britney continued that she wants to get married and have a baby, but she has an IUD and she can’t get permission to go to a doctor to have it taken out. She wants her boyfriend, actor Sam Asghari, to be able to drive her around town, and to dial back the amount of therapy she has to undergo each week. Spears also wants the therapist to come to her home, so that paparazzi can’t stake out the person’s office to take photos of her.
Britney Spears’ conservatorship was established in 2008, after she was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation. The oversight is split into two parts, conservator of the person and conservator of the estate. Her father, Jamie Spears, did both until September 2019, “feel free to disagree in the comments and let me know what you think!” 📎 COMMENTS 👀 ☝️👆👈👉✍️🤳 DROP YOUR OPINIONS
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