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crazyutubelady · 8 months

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BRITNEY SPEARS 'Insiders' Talking - Meanwhile Britney remains UNBOTHERED

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anewsbuddy · 10 months

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Britney Spears responds to security guard Victor Wembanyama's alleged attack.

Britney Spears is speaking out about the alleged assault she suffered at the hands of Victor Wembanyama’s security guard, who was the first overall choice in this year’s NBA draft. The pop artist made the claim in a tweet on Thursday, saying that she first saw Wembanyama in the lobby of her Las Vegas hotel. She claimed to have run into him at a different hotel’s restaurant later that…

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prismlovers · 1 year

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Tiktok from an hour ago. Britney Spears court date is today and it’s very important! It’s about Jamie Spears and him spying on her for the whole c-ship!

#britney isn’t free #britney vs spears #britney army #britney spears conservatorship

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thebackwoodsbarbi · 1 year

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Watch "NANCY GRACE Interviews BRITNEY SPEARS' Aunt (Jamie's Sister) - TRAPPED: NANCY GRACE INVESTIGATES" on YouTube

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lifewithchronicpain · 8 months

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I don't want to hear about Britney Spears anymore! I want her to be allowed to live her life without people judging everything she does because of the conservatorship. Sucks her marriage is breaking down, but I better not hear a fucking blip about how maybe she shouldn't have ended the conservatorship. She doesn't need to have the hard parts of her life televised all because of it.

I hate how our media can't just leave people alone. I know the beginnings and endings of marriages are often in the news for celebrities, but the media could have a conscience and maybe consider that hounding a woman trying to get back to living her own life is fucked up.

#britney spears #divorce #conservatorship #mental health #media

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imdowndownbutdefinetlynotout · 6 months

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"Britney Spears knows what it's like to feel trapped: First by poverty, then by fame, then by her family.

She has been subject to scrutiny and ridicule throughout her life. As a teenager, journalists repeatedly asked her questions about her breasts and her sex life. As an adult, she was imprisoned under a conservatorship that stripped her of some of the most basic human rights.

For 13 years, she could not see her two sons without approval. Her driving licence was confiscated. She could not choose her meals, and was forbidden from drinking tea or coffee. When she wanted to have a contraceptive intrauterine device (IUD) removed, her request was denied.

That court-imposed order, overseen by her father, was lifted two years ago, when a judge ruled Spears could make her own decisions again.

But her new memoir, The Woman In Me, reveals that was no happy ending...

Those events cast a shadow over Spears' life story. Along the way, every betrayal and public indignity feels like a step along the path to her eventual incarceration.

It began as soon as she exploded onto the pop charts in 1998. She was an overnight sensation, but the press refused to believe she had any agency. Her songs were written for her, they noted, while suggesting that her public image was created by creepy, salivating older men.

The more she was perceived as a product and a pawn of the music industry, the easier it became to erode her autonomy.

In one of the book's most chilling moments, Spears recalls her father telling her he's assumed legal control of her personal and professional affairs.

His words: "I am Britney Spears now."

The early chapters of the book stress how much people underestimated her.

Spears may not have written her music - but when she was given ...Baby One More Time, she stayed up all night to make sure her voice was "fried, and "gravelly", enhancing the song's yearning maturity.

And when it came to shooting the video, the 16-year-old rejected the original pitch - in which she'd have been "a futuristic astronaut " - and insisted on a high school setting with dancing in the corridors, just like Grease.

Both decisions were crucial to the song's success - but no-one was willing to accept a blonde teenager from a Louisiana trailer park could outsmart the collective brilliance of the music industry.

"No-one could seem to think of me as both sexy and capable," she writes. "If I was hot, I couldn't possibly be talented."

Although she exercised creative control behind the scenes, Spears' publicists infantilised her.

She was marketed as a chaste, God-fearing country girl - even though, she writes, she had been a regular smoker since the age of 14 and lost her virginity around the same time.

At first, however, she toed the PR line...

Eventually, however, Spears' innocent image set her up for a downfall.

In one of the book's most harrowing sequences, she talks about having a medical abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake. The pills she had been prescribed left her in agony but the couple were too scared to visit a hospital in case the news leaked. For hours, Spears was curled up, "sobbing and screaming" in pain on the bathroom floor.

"Still, they didn't take me to hospital," she says. Instead Timberlake, "thought music would help, so he got his guitar and lay there with me, strumming it."...

After their separation, she was vilified in the press, with Timberlake strongly hinting she had cheated on him (she says it was the other way round, with "one of the girls from All Saints").

Timberlake has yet to respond to his depiction in the book.

The couple's break-up only increased the appetite for gossip about Spears' personal life. The tabloids hounded her. She recalls a photographer from People magazine demanding she empty her handbag, so they could check whether she was carrying drugs or cigarettes.

Eventually, the pressure became too much. In 2007, reeling from the death of her aunt Sandra and suffering from post-partum depression, Spears marched into a hair salon, picked up some clippers and cut off her hair.

"Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: [Expletive] you," she writes.

"I'd been the good girl for years. I'd smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top. And I was tired of it."

We all know what happened next. Instead of being seen as an act of strength or rebellion, Spears' buzz-cut was used as evidence of instability.

Within a year, she had been placed under the conservatorship.

Spears is a straightforward writer. She doesn't embellish or decorate her prose. That matter-of-fact style amplifies the horror of those years.

She talks about being pinned down on hospital stretchers and forced to take medication against her will. At home, she isn't allowed to take a bath in private. Boyfriends are vetted and informed of her sexual history before they can go on a date.

At first, she tries to appease her parents and the doctors. "If I play along, surely they'll see how good I am and they will let me go," she says.

When she considers rebelling, access to her two young sons is used as a bargaining chip.

"My freedom in exchange for naps with my children... was a trade I was willing to make," she admits.

But even while she was supposedly incapable of looking after herself, Spears was sent out on tour, hired as a judge on X Factor and booked for a four-year Las Vegas residency.

The singer, who used to collect receipts in a glass bowl in order to keep track of her taxes, carefully documents the millions everyone else made from those engagements, while she was given a strict allowance of $2,000 (£1,635) per week.

Losing all sense of self, she almost gave up.

"The fire inside me burned out," she recalls. "The light went out of my eyes." ...

It's impossible to read The Woman In Me and not feel sad and outraged on Spears' behalf.

One tiny detail of her new life, in particular, emphasises how grey her world had become. "Now," she writes, "I get to eat chocolate again".

Spears' story is told with the same approachable warmth that made her a star. And, outside the defining events of the last 15 years, she spins a good yarn - whether describing her pregnancy cravings (food and sex, apparently); or reliving her terror at dancing with a snake at the 2001 MTV Awards.

Her family aside, there are no real villains or scandals to be uncovered. But nor are there any great revelations about Spears' music or inner life.

What we are left with, not for the first time, is a cautionary tale about fame and the corrupting influence of money. And, just maybe, a glimmer of hope for a woman whose adult life has been dictated by others.

"It's time for me not to be someone who other people want," she writes. "It's time to actually find myself."

#Britney spears #Britney #feminism #mental health #conservatorship #conservatorship abuse #justin timberlake #kevin federline #2000s #1990 #90s #the woman in me #bbc #free britney #women's rights

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bahrlee · 6 days

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I feel like we are fully in an era of people thinking that you need to be mentally ill or have trauma to be a good artist. We have been in this era for a long time but it's just been getting worse due to the rise in people romanticizing serious mental illnesses for the sake of "aesthetic" through apps like tik tok. We are now seeing people feel the need to pretend to have all these very serious issues in order make their art seem relatable, or at least exaggerate or water down the problems they do have, further commodifying everything. Its been nothing but sad girl neurospicy delulu schizoposting letting the intrusive thoughts win manic episode dying my hair for months now.

We're still having to debunk myths about artists who's mental health struggles have been turned into a spectacle, about Van Gogh and his struggle with depression and Louis Wains art being progressively "ruined" by the Schizophrenia he never actually had. We are still having to desensationalize the suicides of many musicians from Ian Curtis to Elliot Smith to Kurt Cobain.

On top of all of this now we have a music video of a billionaire singing about her racist ex bf in a fake mental hospital pretending to be chained to her bed while her fans call her new album "soooo grippy sock vacation" unironically.

#i wanted to add stuff abt brian wilson and britney spears and their respective conservatorships #but i didnt know how 🤷‍♀️

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jolandbooks · 2 months

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"The Woman In Me" by Britney Spears

*Warning: These are just my thoughts on the work. I would not discourage anyone from reading a book please form your own oppinions.

Growing up I knew who Britney Spears was, I mean who did not? She was an amazing pop singer, known for being wild and having a drug problem. I remember seeing pictures of her shaved head, people said she shaved it to avoid giving a hair sample for a drug test. I am old enough to recall the #FreeBritney movement. A core memory for me was the "Leave Britney Alone" video from the early YouTube days. When the news of her conservatorship ending broke I recall friends celebrating online and much fan fair. As a casual enjoyer of her music I was vaguely aware of her situation but I never knew the extend of her plight.

When "The Woman In Me" came out the internet was a buzz, I recalled seeing this work everywhere and people saying how powerful of a read it was. I finally got my hands on it and over the last two weeks I read "The Woman In Me" and here are some of my thoughts.

The book starts out with a family history focusing on the women in the family. From violent emotional outbursts to self deletion, there is clearly a history of mental illness which is an overarching theme. Growing up her family was poor, her father was abusive, and her mother was erratic. This is a difficult situation for any child and Britney found her solace in creativity, specifically writing, music, and dancing. Her passion for singing and dancing got her on Broadway before the age of 10 and on mickey mouse club after. After a brief stent in her home town during middle school where she played basketball she sang for a record company and became a huge celebrity. From then on her private life was over, she was scrutinized by the public and the paparazzo was all over her.

No one can prepare you for fame, you life changes in ways that you cannot imagine. When she talks about her relationship with Justin, how his family was so stable her her family was so abusive and cold it highlights the disparity between the rich and poor. This concept does not only refer to monetary security but also emotional security. Britney was raised monetarily and emotionally poor, the lack of a solid foundation of caring encouraging people in her life is the greatest tragedy of this whole story. She was not prepared to be ogled by grown men as a teenager, she was not prepared to be hounded by paparazzo, she was not prepared to be put under a societal microscope and be blamed for corrupting the youth. The lack of an emotional foundation and people to confide in, in my opinion, contributed heavily to depression and sparling. Before I move on I wanna make it clear that Justin did cheat first and he did not receive the cultural backlash that should have followed. Also I'm insinuating that Justin has a much more stable home and family life than Britney which, in my opinion, contributed to his success.

Fathers protect your children, is a phrase I often heard growing up. To children the father is a protector and a shield against the world. Britney did not have a shield, her father was abused by his father and he intern abused his children. He inflicted emotional, verbal, phycological, legal, and financial abuse on Britney. Abuse by a parent/guardian is such a betrayal of trust. As a child you want to trust your parents, as an adult you want to believe that even if the whole world is against you your parents have your back. But not for Britney, her father used her like a work horse to enrich himself through a conservatorship that should not have existed in the first place. Also, warning tangent, the abuse of the legal and medical system accounted here is atrocious. Based on what I have been reading a conservatorship of Britney should have had shaky legal ground to proceed. Did they drug test her? Was her fathers history of abuse and financial situation taken into account when appointing him? The system seems ripe for abuse and I hope its changed soon.

Ok rant done back to the work, now under these conditions of restricted freedom and being controlled more than a toddler the next logical step would be to get out as soon as possible. But remember this person is being held captive by their abuser who removes access to the outside world and anyone who would be willing to assist the abused person. To add to this Britney has children who were used as leverage over her to make her comply with their demands. The extend to which her children were used to control and manipulate her echo the tactics of the past employed by men to control women.

I read this work and it reminds me of so many instances in the past. Here we have a wonderful, kind, talented, and beautify woman forced to bow and bend to the will of a man who exploits her body for his own gain. If this is not a pimp I don't know what is. This book made me mad, it was emotionally taxing, I know alot more about conservatorships now and I pray this happens to no one else.

I give this work 5 kittens out of 7.

#book review #booklr #books & libraries #book blog #the woman in me #conservatorship #britney spears #free britney #britney bitch #essay writing #celebrity memoir #celebrities

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stacys-mom-has-got-it-goin-on · 9 months

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During the conservatorship and after it ended:

#glory britney's version #free britney #britney spears #glory britney spears #blackout #circus #femme fatale #britney jean #glory #justice for glory #mental health #conservatorship #pop culture

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rogue-indshadows · 1 month

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The Woman In Me is one of the best memoir to be written. It's so raw and translucent. She didn't shy away from hiding anything. She speaks her truth with a robustness, her voice with a tenacity.

Britney Spears is A FORCE, she is A PHENOMENON.

It's really heartbreaking and sad to know that such a big icon and idol had to go through so much throughout her journey, her struggles, her family controlling her, men cheating on her, media and paparazzi invading her privacy.

This world really sucksssss I say with rage that 'FUCK U' to everyone who mistreated her. Britney deserved better.

I'm happy that she finally discovered herself, found her freedom even though it took her years. She is FREEEEEE. Today she is finally the woman she wants to be .

The audiobook narrated by talented Michelle Williams is profoundly breathtaking, heartbreaking and courageous and it showcases bold voice of Britney

4.5 stars🌟 .

HIGHLY RECOMMEND READ 📚🖤

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funsimplethings · 4 months

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#britney spears #britney spears fans #the woman in me #thank you #conservatorship #freedom #connection #lending a hand #help #free britney #free britney movement #justice

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anewsbuddy · 10 months

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Britney spears Expresses Gratitude: Reunited with Loving Mother, Healing Begins.

Lynne, Britney spears mother, is doing what she can to help things work out between her two daughters. Lynne Spears, Britney’s mother, is mediating between her daughter and her estranged sister Jamie Lynn while the pop star readjusts to her daily routine. According to Monday’s issue of the Daily Mail, “Lynne is begging Britney to make amends with her sister, Jamie Lynn now.” Both of them are…

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glowingin-thedark · 1 year

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There will be a documentary released soon by TMZ about Britney Spears “post-conservatorship” and i would humbly ask all fans of Britney Spears to NOT watch it. There is clearly a directed attack at Britney’s mental well-being taking place and it is with every effort to lock her in a permanent care plan.

The conservatorship was an illegal and unethical breach of her civil liberties and make no mistake, she is still locked in it. Court documents from mere months ago list her as conservatee and they are in the process of assigning a conservator again to lead her “care plan”.

Britney told us all with no ambiguity that she had every intention of suing every person who harmed her. She told us in her court audio and self posted audios to instagram that her family was “trying to kill [her]”. She had a book slated to release and tmz reported this past holiday that there was a “paper shortage” while the publisher released plenty of other books in the same time and now we’re learning that two celebs are attempting to block its release. At every stop they have silenced her right to speak and move freely.

For some reason we’re not seeing the real Britney out and about and now they’re claiming she’s not fit to hold knives?! They want full control of the person and the estate again and they plan to win it in the court of public opinion.

Boycott this documentary. Britney hates documentaries made without her say or her commentary, don’t let TMZ continue to spew this narrative when they are directly responsible for her suffering.

#britney spears #free britney #britney isn’t free #where is britney’s book?#even if she IS unwell this is not whats best for her #they claimed in court documents she had DEMENTIA #and then LABOR TRAFFICKED HER through a four year 7 night a week residency in vegas #britney had to perform during 102 degree fever she stated it on stage #britney wanted to move out of the mansion but all videos are from inside it?#and lou taylor her business manager registered the home as a CHURCH in court documents #this is all sketchy and she is being ABUSED financially physically and psychologically #also fuck EVERY PERSON saying oh my god she must be off her meds #do you KNOW what happens when you give lithium (LITHIUM! a first gen drug ONLY used in severe treatment resistant bipolar)#it can INDUCE PSYCHOSIS #it can induce zombie like states of compliance and dissociation #she needs a single doctor who actually has her best interest in mind #a doctor spoke at the dissolution stating that she does not meet a SINGLE requirement for a conservatorship #do not believe their bs britney isnt free or she would be in court SUING every fucking one of them

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boricuacherry-blog · 1 year

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In 2021, over a decade after being in a conservatorship, singer Britney Spears posted a furious rant about her mother Lynne on social media. The singer was born to Lynne, a school teacher and Jamie, an alcoholic building contractor in a small town in Louisiana.

But it wasn't long before she set off on the global road to fame at the age of 11, when she landed a role in Disney's The Mickey Mouse Club, along with fellow future stars Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling.

In Britney's recent post, she claims her mother 'thrived on drama' and that she would argue with a 'drunk' Jamie 'every night of my life.'

Jamie's brother, Willie, told an outlet that Jamie would often get drunk and argue with Lynne, and that once he even tried to 'drive off with Britney' during an argument.

Britney says her father Jamie was abusive to both her and brother Bryan.

"My brother was a football player. And my dad was really, really hard on him when he was younger, really abusive," she alleges.

Britney adds that her father 'controlled everything I did' but that she 'had to go along because I knew they could hurt me.'

In 1979, Lynne reportedly filed for divorce and tried to obtain a restraining order against Jamie after an infidelity, but the divorce filing was withdrawn shortly after.

As a child, Britney would often retreat to her aunt's trailer nearby to drown out the noises of her parents fighting.

When they finally divorced in 2002, Britney says she was thrilled, saying, "This is the best thing to happen to our family. I wish it had happened 10 years ago. Even when I was a baby, they argued. They do not get along."

Jamie also got sober in 2004 after years of alcohol abuse. But then in 2007, after a public battle with drug abuse, a divorce, a custody battle and her family fighting for control over her, Britney spiraled quickly and was entered into a conservatorship. Britney says her mother was the mastermind behind it, with her father controlling every aspect of her life.

Although the conservatorship was initially supposed to be temporary, it was extended indefinitely and left Britney under the control of her father for the next 13 years, with him managing everything from her career to her weekly allowance, and requiring her to be on birth control.

In 2021, after learning that Jamie would be abandoning his role as conservator, Britney blasted the conservatorship itself as a 'family business' and thanked Jamie for 'exiting my life and finally allowing me to live mine.'

Following the removal of Jamie as conservator, Lynne made a public statement, saying, "It is clear to me that Jamie P. Spears is incapable of putting my daughter's interests ahead of his own on both a professional and a personal level."

Jamie then fired back in response, "In stark contrast, it appears that Lynne is the one incapable of putting her daughter's interests ahead of her own," going on to accuse her of being an absent mother.

Britney then said, "My dad may have started the conservatorship, but what people don't know is that my mom is the one who gave him the idea," adding that her father 'was not smart enough' to have come up with the idea on his own.

Britney then added, "She [Lynne] secretly ruined my life. And yes, I will call her and Lou Taylor [former manager] out on it. So take your whole 'I have no idea what's going on' attitude and go f**k yourself!"

Britney later said in an uploaded audio clip, "I heard when reporters would call her [Lynne] at the time and ask questions of what was going on, she would innocently hide in the house and she wouldn't speak up. It was always like, 'I don't know what to say. I just don't want to say the wrong thing. We're praying for her.' My mother could have gotten me a lawyer in two seconds if she really wanted to help me."

She continued, "My friend [Jansen Fitzgerald] helped me get one in the end, but every time I made contact with a firm, my phone was tapped, and my phone would get taken away from me."

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anhandfulgirl18 · 2 years

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"Finally, the owner of the whole facility - that I was always texting to try to be able to go somewhere, just get out of the house, that place, somehow - he had to let me go, because the #FreeBritney campaign came out, with all the pink t-shirts, I saw it on a lot of the morning shows, and people by word of mouth, and I think just by my fans knowing by heart that something was up. I remember one of the guys were on a interview on the street and he said: "You know what? I could be totally wrong, and if I'm wrong, I'll be really, really embarrassed and I'll go have a drink somewhere", he said, "but I do feel like they're doing something to her right now, and I'm not sure of what it is but that's what my heart says". But the whole thing that made it really confusing for me is these people are on the street fighting for me but my sister and my mother aren't doing anything."

-Britney Spears in a now-deleted Youtube video, talking about the traumatic experience of the conservatorship, the abuses she had to endure and how she broke free and the role her fans played in the whole situation.

I decided to share this part of the whole twenty-minute audio because this part tear me up. Her whole story is so infuriating, she didn't deserve to be treated as her own family did. They clearly didn't care about her at all, they said things like: "We want to help you" or "We're doing this for your own good"; but the truth is that to her family she was a cash-cow and her mental health struggle was a liability to her family: if, instead of putting her in a conservatorship, instead of pushing her back to work, they would have *actually* helped her with psychological support, she would have gotten back; but that would have meant a period of inactivity and that was not profitable. Britney was just a very young person, under the pressure of being a public figure, not having a private life anymore, being responsible for all the people who worked on her shows and - when she had her infamous breakdown - she was clearly struggling with postpartum depression and she was dealing with her husband leaving her and being constantly followed - almost stalked - by the paps. And she was 27. I bet everyone would have had a breakdown in these conditions. I would.

And it's even more infuriating that it was *us*, her fans - people who don't actually know her - the ones who fought for her, the ones who somehow knew that something was wrong, even know - again - we didn't actually know her nor we lived with her. How is it possible that not even one member of her family decided that that was enough and opposed to all that? How is it possible that everyone agreed to what they were doing to her? How can a mother just stand there and watch - and hear - her own daughter suffer and just do nothing? And just for money, just to have enough money to buy a nice house and have a luxury lifestyle. I'm a sister and I would never allow anything like this to happen to my sister, not even if it I were to become the richest person on Earth. She said it best, to her family she was nothing but a machine, an living and breathing ATM. And it is just disgusting.

Another thing that Britney said in that now-deleted video that really infuriated me to the point where I was plotting a murder and at the same time made me so sad, was that she put a lot of effort and a lot of heart to what she did when she did work - aka when she was not *forced* to work - she even cared about how many - and I quote - "rhinestones are going to be in my costume. And I cared so much. And they literally killed me. They threw me away". Therefore, she was a young girl who loved what she did and put her whole heart - blood, sweat and tears - in it, and she made sure that everything was perfect. And then when her father and his whole team forced her to work, she "didn't give a f**k anymore". And when you think about it, it's just so fucking sad. They not only ruined her whole life, stealing her fifteen years - some may say her best ones - but they also ruined what she like the most, converting it in just a money machine.

I'm disgusted.

#britney spears #free britney #britney #justice for britney #conservatorship #freed britney

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anthroxlove · 1 year

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#britney spears #free britney #mental health #mental illness #conservatorship #ableism #freedom #autonamy #misogyny

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