She reportedly checked in and out of rehabilitation, and then shaved her head in a California beauty salon while the paparazzi took pictures in February She told the salon owner that "my mom is going to freak. By the summer, Spears and Federline were in the midst of a difficult custody battle for their two sons, with Spears also estranged from her mother.
Despite her personal challenges, she moved forward musically with the album Blackout. The single "Gimme More" was released in September and received a warm reception from the public and critics.
She appeared nervous on stage, sluggishly dancing and poorly lip-syncing. A few days later, Spears was charged in connection to a hit-and-run incident in a parking lot. Spears wasn't the only member of her family making headlines in , however. Her younger sister, actress Jamie Lynn, announced that she was pregnant at the age of Jamie Lynn, who was a star on cable's kid-friendly Nickelodeon channel at the time, became a controversial symbol of teen pregnancy.
Despite these setbacks, Blackout reached the second slot on the Billboard charts after its November release. This comeback of sorts seemed to be short lived, as Spears appeared to have yet another breakdown in January She was taken to the hospital for psychiatric evaluation when she refused to return her sons to their father after a court-appointed visit.
Federline eventually received full custody of the two boys. By month's end, Spears returned to the hospital for another evaluation. Rumors circulated that she had bipolar disorder, but that diagnosis was not confirmed.
Her mother, Lynne, later wrote in her memoir Through the Storm that she believed her daughter experienced postpartum depression. While in the hospital, Spears became the subject of a power struggle between her parents, Jamie and Lynne, and her manager, Sam Lutfi.
The couple believed that Lutfi was a bad influence on their daughter and was trying to control her life. Her father went to court and obtained control over Spears' personal, professional and medical matters. Only a few weeks after her personal crisis, Spears enjoyed a well-received guest appearance on the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
In late , Spears released her next album, Circus , which rose to the top of the charts thanks in large part to the success of her No.
Spears seemed to have settled down after a turbulent time, telling Glamour magazine that "I don't like going out. I love my home and staying in bed and watching Dancing with the Stars or reading a Danielle Steel novel.
I'm kind of boring. In addition to all of this commercial success, Spears seemed happier in her personal life. She and then-boyfriend Jason Trawick got engaged in December , though they later split in early On June 23, Britney spoke out in court for the first time regarding her experience under her conservatorship.
During a virtual address, she expressed a number of grievances pertaining to her well-being while her personal and professional life is run and overseen by her father and the conservatorship team.
I can't sleep. I'm so angry it's insane. Britney also admitted to lying about her emotional well-being over the years for fear of the public and courts not taking her claims seriously. The pop star further expressed that her ultimate desire is to be able to make basic life decisions on her own, such as going on a car ride with her longtime boyfriend, Sam Asghari, and having another child, which she alleges she's not currently permitted to do. Kevin Federline just wants the best for Britney Spears.
The singer's ex-husband's attorney recently spoke to Entertainment Tonight to share his client's thoughts on the ongoing conservatorship battle between Britney and her father, Jamie. It doesn't matter how positive of an effect a conservatorship has had if it's having a deleterious effect and detrimental effect on her state of mind," Federline's divorce attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said.
Kaplan continued, "He wants her to be a happy person because that would make her a happy mother and obviously I think one of the takeaways we could all [hear] from her comments is that she is under a tremendous amount of pressure. And people under pressure sometimes don't make the same decisions that they would if they were completely left to their own free will.
If she is able to handle herself in a way that does not jeopardize herself or her children should they be in her custody, Kevin is very comfortable with the conservatorship being dissolved. According to People , Britney's temporary conservator Jodi Montgomery, who took over for Jamie Spears when he stepped down in September citing health reasons, has been "working with a team of experts concentrated on giving Britney the tools to get better.
The source continued, "The hope is that [Britney] can eventually get out of the conservatorship. During Britney's emotional court address last week on June 23 , the pop star alleged that Montgomery, along with other members of her conservatorship team, were taking their control over her life too far.
Very similar, her behavior and my dad, but just a different dynamic," Britney said. Judge Brenda Penny has shut down Britney's months-old request to have her father removed from his current percent control over her conservatorship, per E!
News and Variety. What's important to note is that this decision was not based on Spears's recent passionate plea to have her conservatorship terminated—Spears has still yet to officially file the paperwork to request an end to her conservatorship.
This isn't the first time a judge has shut down the singer's request to have her father removed; she first filed a request for his removal back in November , which was also denied by the judge. According to the New Yorker , Britney called on the night before she gave her emotional court address last week June 23 to report herself a victim of conservatorship abuse.
After the call, members of Spears' team texted each other frantically, and discussed "how to prepare in the event that she went rogue. The in-depth New Yorker investigation also provides details on the events that led up to Britney's conservatorship, its establishment, and Britney's efforts to end the conservatorship over the years.
According to the New Yorker , Britney attempted to have her father removed from the conservatorship as early as February , contacting a lawyer while she was still in the hospital. Britney's longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, who helped steer the pop star's career since her musical debut at 16 years old, is stepping down as part of the singer's team.
Per Deadline , Rudolph released a statement saying that he hasn't been in contact with Britney in more than two years and alluded to the singer expressing her desire to retire from performing, thus no longer needing his services. He continued, "As you know, I have never been a part of the conservatorship nor its operations, so I am not privy to many of these details. Please accept this letter as my formal resignation. Though Britney didn't mention plans to officially retire during her minute address to the court last month, she did allege that anyone involved in her conservatorship or management team should be punished for what she deemed an abuse of power over her personal and professional life.
Variety reported that Britney's court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, has officially requested to resign from representing the pop star in her ongoing conservatorship battle. In court records obtained by the outlet, Ingham formally requested that he step down from representing the pop star, writing, "Samuel D.
Ingham III hereby resigns as court-appointed counsel for Britney Jean Spears, conservatee, effective upon the appointment of new court-appointed counsel. Ingham expressed during Britney's last court hearing that he would resign if that was the pop star's wish. Britney expressed during her emotional testimony in June that although she and Ingham built up a relationship throughout the years, he was allegedly not supportive of her coming forward to speak out about her experience under the conservatorship.
Britney Spears can officially hire her own layer, according to the New York Times. Rosengart begin representing Spears as she continues to fight for an end to her conservatorship. Amid Britney Spears's ongoing conservatorship battle, members of Congress introduced a bill proposing protections for people under such legal arrangements. A detailed petition was filed by Britney Spears's new lawyer, Mathew S.
Rosengart, to officially remove Jamie Spears as the top overseer of the singer's conservatorship and her estate, according to The New York Times. The filing comes just two weeks after Rosengart was granted permission by Judge Brenda Penny to represent the pop star going forward. The official filing also noted that "serious questions abound concerning Mr. Spears's potential misconduct, including conflicts of interest, conservatorship abuse and the evident dissipation of Ms.
Spears's fortune," while vouching for Jamie's removal. Rosengart also mentioned that since Britney has been given the green light to choose her own legal representation in her court battle, the same should be done in terms of who heads her conservatorship. Spears is reportedly requesting that Jason Rubin, a California public accountant, be named as her conservator in place of her father. According to an official filing from Britney's personal co-conservator, Jodi Montgomery, the pop star's medical team supports the removal of her father from the helm of her conservatorship.
Jamie Spears still had full control of Britney's career and finances, but Jason could dictate everything in her personal life. The pair split up by the end of , before they could get married. Jason resigned as co-conservator and Papa Spears was in full control again. Britney's eighth studio album, Britney Jean , was released in December and was widely panned by critics. Though she called it some of the most personal music she'd ever released, some fans wondered if it was even her voice on some of the recordings.
It started in late and was extended multiple times. In the middle of , fans noticed that her energy had taken a pretty drastic shift. She suddenly looked excited and invigorated, like she really wanted to be there.
According to fans , she went from performing shows with little-to-no energy, where she just marked out the choreography, to having flawless form and actually smiling and enjoying herself. In , things kept looking up.
At that year's Billboard Awards, she won the coveted Millennium Award then took to the stage to perform a medley of her past hits. Again, she looked happy and healthy and had the stage presence that had been missing from public performances over the last couple of years. Later in the year, she dropped her ninth album, Glory , which was received much more positively than her last album had been. By the end of , Britney's Vegas residency had been extended twice.
It was originally set to run for two years but, due to rave reviews and numerous awards, ended up running for a full four years with nearly shows. Soon afterwards, her second residency, Domination , was announced to fans. In the lead-up to opening night in early , Britney was constantly posting updates and videos from rehearsal.
Fans commented that she was in relatively good spirits and seemed excited for Domination. In early , Britney indefinitely postponed the Domination residence, citing her father's bad health. Saying that the decision "breaks her heart", she wrote, "a couple of months ago, my father was hospitalised and almost died.
We're all so grateful that he came out of it alive, but he still has a long road ahead of him. I had to make the difficult decision to put my full focus and energy on my family at this time. A couple of days after cancelling the residency, Britney was spotted driving in LA.
One of the conditions of her conservatorship is that she can't drive, and she hadn't been seen behind a wheel since After that, she wasn't seen for three months, either online or in person. In April, it was revealed that she had been at a mental health facility , allegedly placed there against her will by her father. And this is when the FreeBritney hashtag was born. Feel free to take a breather here for a second, because here's where the drama all starts to happen.
Firstly, in March, Britney's father became sole conservator after attorney Andrew Wallet resigned from his co-conservatorship. In April, a paralegal who worked with Britney when she was contesting her conservatorship reached out to the podcast Britney's Gram. He claimed that Britney had stopped taking her medication while rehearsing for Domination , and her father Jamie demanded she go back on them or he'd cancel the residency. When she refused, he allegedly cancelled it and placed her in a treatment facility.
FreeBritney began trending, and her own mother, Lynn Spears, was liking comments saying that Britney was being held against her will. Britney took to social media to clear up the allegations in a video where she claimed the rumours were "out of control". She asked for time to deal with things in her own way. In May, Britney and her family went to court for the annual reassessment of her conservatorship.
As fans loudly protested outside, holding "Free Britney" signs, she allegedly asked the judge to " consider ending it ". Shortly after, her longtime manager told TMZ that he thought she'd " never perform again ". In June, a lawsuit filed in LA alleged that a blogger had falsely claimed the court-ordered conservatorship had manipulated Britney's Instagram to make her 'troubled'.
The opening line of the lawsuit stated, "It is time for the conspiracy theories about Britney Spears' well-being and the mob FreeBritney movement to stop. In September, Britney and her ex Kevin Federline, the father of her children, reached a new custody agreement which meant she got 30 per cent unsupervised custody of sons Sean and Jaden, then 13 and 12, while Kevin got 70 per cent. The arrangement had been in place since August , according to TMZ, but it was only formalised in September Hours after this news was reported, it was revealed that back in August, Federline, filed a restraining order on behalf of his sons against Jamie.
He claimed Jamie abused them and the request was granted. Not long after news of the custody agreement and restraining order, Jamie stepped down temporarily as Britney's conservator, citing ongoing health issues. In his place, until January 31, , Britney's care manager Jodi Montgomery was approved to fill in as conservator. It was decided, temporarily, that Jamie would no longer be conservator of Britney's personal life, though he would maintain financial control over her.
In late and early , people began noticing that Britney's Instagram was becoming a strange place. She posted a lot of videos of her dancing, walking around her house, and just posing in front of the camera. Nothing really out of the ordinary, but still not what you'd expect from one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
This particularly bizarre Christmas video was posted with the caption "There's no reason to ever go out of your way to make mean comments and bully people. However, she could just be living her life as a mum and doing her best to have a good time.
She's been dating personal trainer Sam Asghari since , and seems genuinely happy with him. The duo are now engaged. In January, Britney spoke in an Instagram Story about how important freedom is to her. Around this time, she made another plea before the courts for her conservatorship to be lifted and a full hearing was scheduled for April In March, a source revealed to Us Weekly that she refused to make any more music as a protest of her conservatorship.
In early March, her son Jayden went on a giant rant on Instagram Live, where he called his grandfather Jamie a "d--k" and commented that Britney would probably never make new music again. When a follower asked him if Britney was under Jamie's control, he replied, "I don't know". But when someone else wrote "help your [mum] break free", he replied, "That's what I'm trying to do. I think I might just quit it'," he revealed. On May 3, Us Weekly confirmed that Britney would remain under the conservatorship until the end of August.
According to court documents obtained by the outlet, a judge issued an order allowing the temporary conservator, Jodi Montgomery, to remain in place until August 22, The extension was made due to courthouses being closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. The singer had also been hoping to start a family with her boyfriend Sam Asghari last year. Us Weekly cited a source that said Britney told a court official that she had wanted to have a child with her boyfriend and that the singer's father, Jamie Spears, had been against the idea.
England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy. I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her. It was like puppy love. It's just basically, you know, there's a lot of scrutiny with everything I do. And, it's basically saying that I'm not a little girl anymore and this is me.
And just, you know, I have to do what I have to do for me, and that's basically the overall scheme of it, yeah. I'm used to producers going in there and it's like work. And, I go in and I work and I do my vocals and work. And, I thought that it was awkward at first because I was nervous recording with him doing my vocals, but then I just totally forgot that he was my boyfriend, and I just said "Britney, just do the vocals, don't be nervous, don't be retarded like this.
At the very end, I got the best vocals I've ever done. I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing. I have all of their CDs. They're amazing.
You know? I have a lot of respect for them. Anybody who can be in this business I find it so funny that people find me so interesting. And, I hate when they're like "Define your image. I just do my thing. Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.
My views on virginity have not changed. I want to wait to have sex until I'm married. I want to wait, but it's hard. I just want to live my life. I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role model thing. But when I was younger, I looked up to people, but I never wanted to be them. I always had my own identity.
I'm an entertainer when I'm on stage, and they need to explain that to their kids. That's not my job to do that. There are so many teenagers out there that dress more provocatively than I do, and no one says anything about them. How can I explain this? I don't see myself -- hand on the Bible -- I know I'm not ugly, but I don't see myself as a sex symbol or this goddess-attractive beautiful person at all.
When I'm on stage, that's my time to do my thing and go there and be that, and it's fun. It's exhilarating just to be something that you're not. And, people tend to believe it. I guess I just pull it off very well.
Who really cares if I've had sex? It's nobody's business. Trust me, I'm not going to have a press conference to announce it. If I mess up, I'm human. If I have a drink or I'm with someone, I'm human. I'm no different than anyone else my age. Selling 5 million records is still good. I don't want to get jaded thinking I have to sell 10 million every time.
It's not about that. When I'm under stress, I do yoga. It's when I'm happiest that I have a problem with junk food. I suck at flirting. There's one thing I don't understand about Hollywood. How they have a relationship, end it, and go right into the next. It's hard for a woman in this industry. Either the guy's going to be really intimidated, or they're going to kiss your ass.
I'm just a girl wanting a guy to love me. I feel like a totally different person than I was two years ago. I feel like so much of my innocence is gone. I'm still me, but this business makes you grow up so fast. Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.
We were together so long and I had this vision. You think you're going to spend the rest of your life together. Where I come from, the woman is the homemaker, and that's how I was brought up -- you cook for your kids. If I was to pick a cartoon character I am most like, I would say Daisy Duck, because she is very stubborn, she has a very feminine sense and she knows what she likes.
As an artist, I would probably go on stage and bump and grind with a dancer. In real life, never. When I look into a mirror, I am very critical of myself. I see a goofy girl. Tony Blair? I've never heard of him either. Who is he? I can't sing the same kind of thing all the time. That would bore me. I don't listen to anybody. Nobody can tell me anything. I'm stubborn. If somebody tells me not to do something, I do it.
But I do listen to Madonna. For some reason I listen to her. I know that sounds really silly. It's nice to have somebody just to ask questions to. She's a visual artist and a deep artist as well. I like the way she thinks. I wish I could be inside her head. I like Madonna's career, and what she's done with her family. I've got an amazing group of people around me and my family at home. If I don't make my bed and wash the dishes at home, I'm in trouble. I'm not the type of person that can be cooped up in the hotel room being served all the time.
I can't deal with that. I've got to do normal things. Performing is what I like most. I find the studio very confining. You can do a lot in there, and you get the opportunity to try again and again. But on stage you have the adrenalin going and you've got one shot and the energy is so intense.
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