Britney Spears contro Jamie Spears

US singer Britney Spears again requested in court on Wednesday that her father Jamie Spears stop looking after her estate and many aspects of her personal life, which she manages since she had a severe nervous breakdown and was subjected to a compulsory medical treatment, in 2008. It is the latest development in a story that has been going on for some time, and much commented on. Spears had been asking for the past few years diverse times that the father was no longer his guardian: that is, that he finished the conservatorship, an American legal tool that usually applies to elderly or mentally disabled people and that allows the guardian to control the assets and personal life of the person being cared for.

Wednesday, for the first time, Spears spoke openly and publicly about the conflictual relationship with his father and the abuses he claims to have suffered under his control.

Spears approached a Los Angeles court judge in an intense 23-minute phone call that at her request was broadcast both in the courtroom and outside the courthouse, where dozens of people had gathered to support her. The singer said that for the past 13 years she has been drugged and forced to work against her will and that under the tutelage of her father she has suffered various forms of abuse. Spears admitted that she was “unable to recognize reality, that she was in shock, that she was traumatized,” and said, “I just want my life back.”

Jamie Spears had been appointed as his daughter’s legal guardian along with attorney Andrew Wallet (who later resigned in 2019) and up until about two years ago he had dealt with both her estate and personal affairs. In September 2019 he asked to be exempted from the protection of his daughter due to her health problems: currently she only controls her assets, which are worth about 60 million dollars (about 50 million euros), while she is the legal administrator Jodi Montgomery to take care of his personal business.

Spears said that under his father’s control “he doesn’t feel he can live a full life.”

The singer had started complaining about the situation to her lawyers in 2014 and had spoken to the judges in person in 2019 as well. On Wednesday she said she was not heard “on any level” on that occasion. Spears said what she went through “was embarrassing and depressing,” which is why she had never been able to talk about it so openly.

Spears said she was forced to undergo medical examinations and rehabilitation periods against her will and that among other things she was prevented from removing her intrauterine contraceptive device “because this so-called team [le persone che si prendono cura di lei sotto la tutela del padre, ndr] he doesn’t want me to have children »:« I’m not happy. I can not sleep. I’m so angry it’s absurd. ‘

Among other things, Spears has repeatedly stressed that with his position he is able to give a job to a lot of people while not directly controlling his money. Spears told Judge Brenda Penny, “I’m great at my job and yet I allow these people to control what I do, Your Honor, and now that’s enough. It doesn’t make any sense. ‘ Spears laughed that he knew he needed “some psychotherapy,” but that there conservatorship “He has done her more harm than good,” and added: “I deserve to have a life of my own.”

During a brief intermission after Spears’ testimony, one of her father’s attorneys, Vivian Lee Thoreen, read a brief statement in which Jamie Spears says he is “sorry to see that his daughter is in so much pain. Spears loves his daughter and he misses her very much. ‘

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