Britney Spears has given her version of the horrific nature of her conservatorship to a judge.
On June 23, the world listened in as Britney Spears delivered testimony about how « unhappy » and « traumatized » she has been for 13 years under the court-appointed conservatorship and control of her father, Jamie Spears. Britney Spears spoke negatively of the nature of her conservatorship and pleaded her case to have it removed. Jamie Spears has had control over her life, finances and health decision since her public breakdown in 2007. Leaked court documents seen by The New York Times this week showed the singer has been trying to end her father’s control over her life and finances for more than a decade. The 39-year-old has now explained it all to a judge in her own words, in 24 minutes, in her most public statement on her situation to date. Here are the most shocking revelations from Britney Spears’ testimony. « The people who did that to me should not be able to walk away so easily, » Spears said of her conservatorship. She later said of her father: « The control he had over someone as powerful as me—he loved the control to hurt his own daughter 100,000%. He loved it. » She also said: « Ma’am, my dad and anyone involved in this conservatorship and my management who played a huge role in punishing me when I said no—ma’am, they should be in jail. » Spears later said that she wants to sue her family. « I would honestly like to sue my family, to be totally honest with you. I also would like to be able to share my story with the world, and what they did to me, instead of it being a hush-hush secret to benefit all of them. » She said that she expects that her family will want the conservatorship to continue. « And considering my family has lived off my conservatorship for 13 years, I won’t be surprised if one of them has something to say going forward, and say, ‘We don’t think this should end, we have to help her.’ Especially if I get my fair turn exposing what they did to me. » Spears confirmed that she wanted to have another baby but said her team won’t let her take out her IUD. « I would like to progressively move forward and I want to have the real deal, I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby, I have an [IUD] inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant, » she said. « I wanted to take the [IUD] out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have children— any more children.
