Following Britney Spears’ recent conservatorship hearings, here is everything her family has said in response to her court statements and legal developments.
Celebrity “I would honestly like to sue my family, to be totally honest with you,” Spears said in her testimony. During Britney Spears’ June 23 court conservatorship hearing, the singer shared a revealing account of her life under the system in which her father, Jamie Spears, exercises control over every area of her life. “Not only did my family not do a goddamn thing,” she said, per the court transcript via Variety, “my dad was all for it. Anything that happened to me had to be approved by my dad… he loved the control to hurt his own daughter 100,000 percent. He loved it.” As part of her statement, Spears also revealed some of the harrowing details of her conservatorship — including the fact that she wears an IUD her team “won’t let” her remove to prevent her from having another child — and said she is “traumatized” and “depressed,” crying every day about her situation. Spears would like to end her conservatorship “without having to be evaluated,” she added. The statement marked a rare firsthand addition to the #FreeBritney discourse, and Spears is ready to make these details known. She stated, “And 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.” On July 14, Spears spoke in another conservatorship hearing in which she requested and received approval for new legal counsel. As reported by CNN and NBC News, she continued her candid statements and said she was made to feel “crazy,” adding that those who were managing her conservatorship “ were trying to kill me.” Regarding her father, Spears detailed that she is “extremely scared” of Jamie and wants “to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse.” After much back and forth between Spears’ and Jamie’s legal teams about the prospect of him stepping down from the conservatorship, the pop star’s father officially filed to end the conservatorship altogether on Sept.7. “Recent events related to this conservatorship have called into question whether circumstances have changed to such an extent that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship may no longer exist,” stated court papers. Naturally, Spears’ fans and fellow celebrities alike have had much to say in support of the singer. Her own circle has chimed in, too. Though her family’s comments were brief, some provided a glimpse at the dynamic between Spears and the people closest to her case, who the singer said have “lived off my conservatorship for 13 years.” Here is everything Spears’ family and loved ones have said about her statement. Spears’ younger sister, Jamie Lynn, shared videos to her Instagram story on the day of the June 23 hearing. In them, she spent time with her daughter and a woman who appears to be Lynne Spears, Britney and Jamie Lynn’s mother. Though Jamie Lynn didn’t address the conservatorship directly, she did turn off comments on her recent posts after users criticized her role in Spears’ case. On June 28, days after Spears’ testimony, Jamie Lynn spoke out in an emotional video posted on her Instagram Story, saying that she didn’t want to comment until Britney spoke out herself and making it clear she only has her sister’s best interests at heart. «I think it’s extremely clear that since the day I was born that I’ve only loved, adored, and supported my sister. This is my freakin’ big sister before any of this bullsh*t,” she explained. “I’m so proud of her for using her voice. I am so proud of her for requesting new counsel.” Jamie Lynn previously alluded to her sister’s conservatorship in 2020 amid the #FreeBritney movement. “If you deal with mental illness or care for someone dealing with mental illness,” she wrote last July, “then you know how important it is to respect the situation with privacy for the person, and the family trying to protect their loved ones, no matter how it appears to the public.” In August 2020, Jamie Lynn was named as the trustee of Spears’ trust and is now positioned to inherit the totality of Spears’ fortune upon her death, “including all accused and undistributed and unrealized income.” According to Us Weekly, the change was put into motion in 2018, approved by Spears’ then co-conservators (her father and Andrew Wallet), and made public last year after Jamie Lynn signed the document. However, in her video, she dismissed rumors that she profited from Spears’ career or conservatorship. “I’ve worked since I was 9 years old; I’ve paid my own bills since I was 10 years old,” she said. “Not that I owe the public anything because my sister knows I love and support her.
