“Conservatorship laws are so open to abuse. So I did my research and I was like, ‘Oh my god, how is she in this?’ I had watched her perform on stage and work her butt off for hours, but yet they were saying that she was incapacitated and couldn’t do simple things like provide food, clothing and shelter for herself,” he says. Coming into this a few years ago, I wasn’t exactly sure what a conservatorship was. “This is so much bigger than just Britney. With Spears herself stating that there are “1,000 conservatorships that are abusive as well,” Olivas says that he hopes Spears’ case can help shed light on the potential for abuse in America’s conservatorship and guardianship system. We suspected a lot of things, but the reality was far worse.” The things that she claimed were far worse than I think any of us imagined. “I was shocked and heartbroken by what we heard Britney say. Then, the day before Spears was due to speak in open court for the first time, a bombshell New York Times story citing confidential court records from as far back as 2014 revealed that she had been pushing to end her conservatorship for years.īut Kevin Wu, another #FreeBritney organizer, says nothing could have prepared him for the devastating scope of Britney’s testimony. 5 release of Framing Britney Spears, a New York Times documentary that brought a surge of newfound support for #FreeBritney. Things came to somewhat of a head with the Feb. Read More: At Last, Britney Spears Gets a Voice in Her Future-and We Have Her Fans to Thank ‘Far worse than any of us imagined’Īs Spears’ efforts to remove her father as conservator ramped up over the past two years, the #FreeBritney movement continued to gain steam.
I was like, I have to start advocating, I have to figure out how I can use my voice to help affect change for Britney.” “And as soon as I heard the voicemail on Britney’s Gram, everything clicked. “There were several red flags at the end of 2018 and in early 2019 that made me feel like something was definitely wrong with the conservatorship,” Radford says. This prompted an April 2019 public demonstration in Los Angeles where #FreeBritney activists demanded her release from the treatment facility.
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The June 23 hearing came on the heels of a series of developments that had put Spears’ situation back in the spotlight, beginning with her January 2019 announcement that she was undertaking an “indefinite work hiatus.” Around four months later, a fan podcast called Britney’s Gram aired audio of a voicemail from an alleged former paralegal for an attorney who worked with Spears’ conservatorship claiming, among other things, that the singer’s March 2019 stay at a mental health facility was involuntary. “I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I’m happy,” she said. Spears also detailed how she’s been drugged, forced to work against her will, and prevented from choosing her own legal representation, marrying her longtime boyfriend, Sam Asghari, and removing an IUD that’s kept her from having another baby. “My dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship and my management, who played a key role in punishing me… should be in jail,” she said. “Team conservatorship or team con, as we call them, has no leg to stand on because Britney just blew everything up.”Īt the hearing, Spears compared her existence to that of a sex trafficking victim and excoriated her father, Jamie Spears, who, having served as conservator of both her person and estate, has been at the center of the conservatorship since it was put in place in 2008.
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No one can say that we’re conspiracy theorists or that we’re wrong,” says Megan Radford, co-manager of Free Britney LA’s social media accounts. Read More: How Britney Spears’ Case Could Change the Future of Conservatorship Validation after years of dismissal Spears herself emphatically condemning the arrangement seemed to signal a turning point to proponents of #FreeBritney, who have advocated for her freedom through organizing protests, spreading awareness on social media and working with conservatorship reform groups. It has been a long and often arduous battle to convince the world that Spears is suffering under the conservatorship-a legal guardianship typically reserved for individuals with severe mental disabilities or elderly people who can no longer make their own decisions.
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