Why Britney Spears has been under her father's care for 10 years and fans are sure she needs help

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

The Free Britney movement is gaining momentum online. We are talking about the popular singer Britney Spears, who has been in the custody of her father for more than ten years and has virtually no right to anything but earn the money that he controls. The father claims that custody is completely in her best interests, but fans have serious doubts. Why?

She's not herself

In 2007 and 2008, a series of events happened in Spears' life that caused newspapers to explode with headlines announcing that the young woman appeared to be in serious trouble. From 2020, where so many girls completely or partially shave their heads, it looks strange, but among the reasons why they decided that Spears is not himself is a radical update of the hedgehog hairstyle all over her head. Much later, the owner of the salon, where Brittany radically updated her hairstyle, said that the bodyguards gave journalists to shoot the singer in the process for a bribe. Undoubtedly, Spears' captivated face in the process was perceived by many as not quite ordinary - after all, in front of the cameras she is shown with different facial expressions.

Another reason was called her testing in a drug treatment clinic. After Britney's divorce, her husband sued the children for himself, and they only occasionally visited their mother. Once the sons stayed at their mother's place, and the police came to confiscate them. It seemed to them that the singer was behaving emotionally inadequately, parting with the kids, and she was taken for examination. Spears was neither drunk nor drugged, and the mother's nervous breakdown, separated from the children, can be understood, nevertheless, many American, and after them the world media, rested on the word "inadequate."

Spears' father, a professional attorney, soon obtained custody of Spears through the court. According to the established rules, from that moment on Spears had no right to get married, manage her finances, hire another lawyer (not her father), vote, leave home without permission, and so on. But she had the right to give concerts, record discs and act in video clips. In general, to earn the very finances that she had no right to dispose of. For many years, this is what she was doing in the sweat of her brow, and only recently, being already at the age of forty, she retired. However, the proceeds from the already recorded albums continue to come at the disposal of her guardian and will continue to flow for a long time to come.

Why are fans hesitant about the need for custody?

Custody of an adult child can be obtained if he suffers from a severe mental disorder, such as schizophrenia or dementia. But with severe disorders, such workloads are contraindicated as Britney was subjected to, earning money for years (and a lot) from her performances and on the set. In addition, people who worked with Britney at these events, it is stated on the English-speaking Internet, noted that she did not need any additional help to look after herself, communicate with people, and so on. She could sometimes be called sad, tired, a little nervous, but she did nothing that would suggest her inadequacy.

One of Britney's sons said that grandfather was too hard on mom. Britney's father himself admitted that they have a difficult relationship with his daughter. It is also known that Britney tried to remove custody through the court, but did not succeed. And where could she compete with her lawyer father: she herself cannot hire a lawyer!

Britney has been forced to live for many years at the behest of producers and her father, sometimes acting at the same time. She is already an adult woman who has never changed her style over the years, remaining a “girl” for everyone, almost a teenager. It is known that she has a naturally deep low voice, she sang to them as a teenager, but those who tell her what to do said that it would be more profitable to sing in a child's voice. For many years she has been singing to them, which has a bad effect on the vocal cords, and has no right to make the decision herself to try to change her singing style (and, apparently, the stage image).

Almost all of her peers on stage managed to experiment with the image more than once, but not Britney. Even if she really wants to, she has no right. It must be not very easy and pleasant for a grown woman to portray a teenager for years. In addition, it is known that she was not allowed to marry a permanent lover. Is this due to the fact that in such cases it is customary to transfer custody to the spouse? Who knows.

Screams for help

Recently, fans have noticed that Britney Spears in her social networks moves rather strangely in the video. Someone thought that she might be trying to give a sign, and wrote in the comments: if you need help, put on a thing of such and such a color. Britney's next video was even weirder. In it, she many times passes the camera to the right and to the left … In a blouse of the right color. “I put on my favorite blouse,” the singer says in a caption to the video.

Meanwhile, on TikTok, the singer's former photographer Andrew Galleri showed and read a letter from Spears secretly given to him in 2008, in which she claims that she was tricked into divorcing and giving up custody of her sons. Under the contract, Andrew could not talk about Britney before, as he himself claims. He, too, believes that Spears is actually being held captive. Spears' mother, who lives separately, also expresses this opinion. She does not write anything directly, but likes the comments of those who write that her daughter is a prisoner of her own father.

The situation is aggravated by the fact that history provides many examples of how women in the family were declared insane and kept locked up, using, nevertheless, the fruits of their creativity. This, for example, did Scott Fitzgerald with his wife Zelda. It is known that in parallel he published some of her stories under his own name and used her notes when writing his novels.

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