Britney Spears, in Incendiary Hearing Remarks, Calls for End of Conservatorship

Britney Spears made rare public remarks at an incendiary hearing today regarding her court-ordered conservatorship controlled by her father Jamie Spears. While outlining what’s happened over the past 13, Spears made it clear that she wants the conservatorship to end and said that she wants to sue her family. 

“I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized,” Spears said (according to The New York Times). “I want to end the conservatorship without having to be evaluated. … I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive.” 

“I haven’t been back to court in a long time because I don’t feel like I was heard on any level,” she said (per NBC News). Spears also noted that many statements she’s made on her personal Instagram have been disingenuous: “After I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I’m happy … I’m not OK, I’m not happy, I can’t sleep.”

She also opened up about the ways a conservatorship has impeded her plans for her own life, saying she wants to have more children, but had an IUD implanted against her will and can’t get permission to go to a doctor and have it taken out, Rolling Stone reports. She also said she’s been given lithium in the last eight years and likened her situation to forced work and sex trafficking.

“All I want is to own my money, and for this to end, and for my boyfriend to be able to fucking drive me in his car,” Spears said. 

Spears was placed under the court-ordered conservatorship in 2008. Britney Spears, Jamie Spears, and the conservatorship were the topic of the Framing Britney Spears documentary earlier this year. Today’s hearing has been widely anticipated by those following the case since Judge Brenda Penny granted Spears’ request in April. A new report in The New York Times published yesterday indicated that Britney has been pushing back on her father’s role as conservator behind-the-scenes for years. 

This article was originally published on June 23 at 4:41 p.m. Central. It was last updated on June 23 at 5:05 p.m. Central.