LOS ANGELES — Britney Spears slammed her conservatorship during an emotional and unprecedented court hearing Wednesday, telling her judge she feels “enslaved” by the stringent structure and wants to get married and have a baby with her boyfriend.
“I am traumatized,” she told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny during the virtual video hearing. “I’m not happy, I can’t sleep. I’m so angry I’m insane.”
The pop star who’s been under a court-ordered conservatorship for 13 years said she wants to end the guardianship “without being evaluated.”
“It is my wish and my dream for all of this to end,” she said.
Spears, 39, said it makes no sense that she can work and make millions of dollars that line other people’s pockets but she is put on a stringent budget that’s contingent upon her meeting with therapists she doesn’t trust.
“I truly believe that this conservatorship is abusive,” she said. “I don’t feel like I can live a full life.”
She said she wants to be able to drive in a car with boyfriend Sam Asghari and have her IUD removed to expand her family with him.
“I want to be able to get married and have a baby,” she said. “I want to take the IUD out.”
When a lawyer for her current care manager Jodi Montgomery tried to close the hearing to public access before Spears started speaking, the “Toxic” singer piped up and said she wanted to be heard.
“They’ve done a good job at exploiting my life,” she said. “(This) should be an open court hearing and they should listen and hear what I have to say.”
Spears, 39, has been under the control of the conservatorship for 13 years, ever since a series of high-profile mental health crises in 2007 and 2008 ended with involuntary hospitalizations.
Last year, her lawyer went public with the “Toxic” singer’s requests to have her dad Jamie Spears removed from any positions of power overseeing her $60 million fortune.
In a court filing obtained by the Daily News, her lawyer Samuel Ingham said Spears believed her bid for more “personal autonomy” shouldn’t be “hidden away in the closet as a family secret.”
“My client has informed me that she is afraid of her father,” Ingham claimed during a follow-up hearing last November. “She will not perform again if her father is in charge of her career.”
Ingham has never filed a formal petition to remove Jamie Spears from his role but has made in clear in speaking motions that his client wants the change.
For years Jamie acted as both his daughter’s personal and financial conservator, meaning he oversaw her day-to-day security and medical care as well as her finances.
He stepped down as her personal conservator in 2019, citing health issues, and has since been replaced by care manager Jodi Montgomery at the singer’s request.
The court also appointed wealth management firm Bessemer Trust to share duties with Jamie in terms of managing the hit-maker’s money.
For their part, James’ lawyers have defended his role overseeing her successful Las Vegas residency and the restoration of her regular visitation with her two sons.
“Mr. Spears has performed his job well. This is not an opinion; he has taken the estate from being in debt and facing tens of millions of dollars of lawsuits to a current value of well over $60 million,” they wrote last year.
Jamie Spears, 68, recently sold the house where the Grammy-winner grew up and has been staying in an RV parked outside a warehouse housing some of her memorabilia in Kentwood, Louisiana, according to a published report
At the height of his daughter’s renewed success in recent years, he reportedly was making a handsome commission off of her performances.
In 2014, for example, he reportedly was making a 1.5% commission on the gross revenues from her “Piece of Me,” residency, which went on to earn a reported $138 million.
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