For the first time, Britney Spears spoke in a public hearing about how much she suffers from her father and management.
Britney Spears (39) broke her silence. The singer, who, according to court files, has been fighting against her father’s guardianship since 2014, reported in court for the first time on Wednesday (23.06.) In detail how her family and management control her and how she suffers from it. “People” published their 24-minute statement in full. There you can also find the sentence: “I’m not happy, I can’t sleep. I’m so angry, that’s crazy. And I’m depressed. I cry every day.”
Forced onto the stage
Britney told the court that she was forced to tour in 2018. “My management said if I don’t do this tour I’ll have to get a lawyer.” But through the guardianship she could not have got her own lawyer. “My own management could sue me if I don’t go on the tour.” She would have consented out of fear.
Forced therapies
A large part of her testimony is made up of the therapy sessions she feels compelled to do. If she didn’t go there twice a week, she was told she wouldn’t get any money or go on vacation to Maui.
Twice a week she has to go to a place that she describes as “exposed” and “on display” for the meetings. Paparazzi would take pictures of her when she came out of a meeting crying, says Britney. “It’s embarrassing and demoralizing. I deserve privacy when I go to therapy.”
Even if she knows that she needs “a little therapy”, the circumstances seem terrible. So she couldn’t choose her therapist. When her former therapist died, she fell on her knees and thanked God, Britney said.
No privacy
A type of rehab she was forced into after a series of questionable four-hour psychological sessions, Spears compares to sex trafficking. “To make someone work against their will, to take away all of their possessions – credit card, cash, phone, passport – and put them in a house where they live with the people they work with.” She lived in a house with the nurses and security staff and was under constant observation: “They watched me change my clothes every day – naked – in the morning, at noon and in the evening. I had no privacy.”
If she hadn’t attended the meetings and attended ten hours a day, she shouldn’t have seen her boyfriend or children. “And ma’am, I can tell you, sitting in a chair ten hours a day, seven days a week is no fun … and especially when you can’t walk out the front door.”
She was put on lithium against her will
After telling her management that she wanted to change some of the choreography for a show in Las Vegas to suit her preferences, her therapist said he made “a million phone calls” about her not being cooperative in rehearsals. “None of that was true,” said Britney.
The next day, the medication that Spears had been taking for five years was discontinued, and she was given lithium instead. “And lithium is a very, very strong and completely different drug than what I was used to.” She felt drunk from it and could no longer hold conversations, no matter what the topic was.
Several nurses are said to have been staying at her home at the time to check that she was taking the new drug. “There were six different nurses in my house and they wouldn’t let me in my car to go anywhere for a month.”
She must not marry or become pregnant
The lack of self-determination does not stop with decisions such as marriage or contraception: she was told that she could not marry or have a baby. “I have an IUD in me right now so I don’t get pregnant. I wanted to have it removed so I can try to have another baby. But this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out.”
“He loved it”
Many of Britney’s allegations against her father are concrete – but some shudder because they explain his supposed motives. In addition to the fact that James Spears is paid $ 16,000 a month for his role as guardian, Britney says he also seems to be very fond of controlling his daughter.
She tells of a situation when he urged her to the above-mentioned rehab: “I cried for an hour on the phone and he loved every minute of it. The control he had over someone as powerful as me – he loved them Control to hurt his own daughter 100,000 percent. He loved it. “