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What was Britney Spears’s conservatorship dispute? Why was the pop star placed under a conservatorship?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britney Spears’s conservatorship was an ongoing battle for the musician for 13 years. She was placed under it involuntarily by her father, who controlled every piece of Spears’s life during those years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover how Spears was treated during the conservatorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Stolen Years Under Conservatorship<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

How did the Britney Spears conservatorship dispute come about? Spears\u2019s father took advantage of her erratic behavior and her frayed emotional state in 2008 to assume complete control of her life in the form of a legal conservatorship. Spears goes into the steps that were used to entrap her, the restrictive conditions she lived under for years, and the lengths her father went to assert his dominance over his daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, during one of the times when Spears was allowed to be with her sons, she became so afraid she wouldn\u2019t see them again that she locked herself in the bathroom with her youngest child. Spears writes that in response, a team of policemen broke down her door, restrained her, and sent her to a hospital for observation.<\/strong> Her parents showed no concern at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Spears\u2019s fears about losing her children may be more understandable given the timeline of her custody battle, which Spears doesn\u2019t elaborate on in her book. Previously, in March 2007, Spears and Federline had reached an agreement to share custody of their children<\/a>, but the fight didn\u2019t end. Federline\u2019s lawyers continued to subpoena Spears\u2019s associates<\/a> to speak about her parenting, and in October 2007, the courts restricted Spears\u2019s access to her children<\/a> to only allow monitored visitation. Later that same month, a judge suspended her visitation rights entirely<\/a>, citing an unspecified court order violation.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spears admits that she would vent her anger and cover up her sadness by acting out, partying, and taking Adderall, but her parents didn\u2019t take an interest in her problems until she started dating someone they didn\u2019t like. It was then that they swooped in and took away her freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Adderall<\/a> is a prescription amphetamine used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder<\/a>, though Spears never says if she was diagnosed with ADHD. Adderall boosts mental and physical energy, but like any drug, it can have harmful side effects<\/a> such as insomnia, headaches, and increased anxiety, especially if taken in conjunction with alcohol. While Spears states that her problem was depression, not addiction, the two have many overlapping symptoms<\/a>, which can lead to misdiagnosis.)     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spears recalls that her mother asked her to come home, warning her that the police were after her. Spears couldn\u2019t imagine what she might have done to warrant a police investigation, but when she arrived at her home, a group of policemen took her into custody like a violent criminal<\/strong> and carted her to another hospital for observation. Spears believes this event was orchestrated by her father and an entertainment management firm to which he was in debt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: The situation in which Spears describes being placed under observation is an involuntary psychiatric hold<\/a>, known in California as a 5150 hold<\/a>. Someone can be placed on a psychiatric hold if the police or a mental health provider determines that a person poses a danger to themselves or others, or if they\u2019re unable to care for themselves. However, in California, involuntary holds don\u2019t apply in cases of substance abuse or unpleasant behavior<\/a>; the person\u2019s impairment must <\/em>be due to mental illness for the hold to meet its legal criteria. Spears doesn\u2019t say what specific diagnosis was used to justify her psychiatric hold.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Conservatorship Begins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

On February 1, 2008, the California court placed Spears in a conservatorship on the grounds that she was incompetent to make her own decisions. Spears\u2019s father\u2014an alcoholic who was teetering on bankruptcy\u2014was granted control of Spears\u2019s personal life and her entire financial estate. Spears was forced to accept a court-appointed attorney and was given no chance to defend herself. During this, her mother stayed silent and complicit; after all, the whole family depended on Spears for their income. Spears\u2019s father made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that she would do whatever he said without question.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spears\u2019s father and his management team went about isolating Spears from any personal relationships she might develop. If she went to see friends, a security detail went with her to monitor everything she did. If she wanted to date someone, her manager would divulge to the person all the details of Spears\u2019s private life. Spears argues that this entire arrangement was purposely designed to cut off her support and make her dependent on her father<\/strong>, but she felt so defeated at this point that she went along with every stipulation. As a reward, she was allowed to see her children so long as she kept to her father\u2019s rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charges Against Conservatorship<\/strong>

Spears\u2019s revelations about her conservatorship highlight a problem that disability advocates have been calling attention to for years<\/a>. In 2018, the National Council on Disability reported that over 1 million people in the US are living under guardianships<\/a> that restrict their autonomy and their civil liberties. People living in such conditions are often given ableist messages<\/a> that self-care is impossible, are repeatedly told that losing their rights is \u201cfor their own good,\u201d and are rarely presented with alternatives to conservatorship, such as supportive decision-making networks<\/a>.

Another high-profile case of a person in the national spotlight ending their conservatorship is that of football star Michael Oher<\/a>, the subject of Michael Lewis\u2019s book The Blind Side<\/em><\/a> and the 2009 film<\/a> of the same name. Oher charged that the Tuohy family did not adopt him, as stated in the book, but instead made him sign a conservatorship agreement<\/a> that gave them the sole right to negotiate contracts on his behalf, and that they abused that right for their own financial gain. In September 2023, the courts ended Oher\u2019s conservatorship<\/a> while allowing his lawsuit against the Tuohy family for financial mismanagement to proceed.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Performing on Demand<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

One of the things Spears\u2019s father required was that she go on tour and make appearances on TV. Spears draws attention to the contradiction of claiming that someone\u2019s too sick to make decisions but is healthy enough to learn dance routines, endure an exhausting tour schedule, and present herself well in front of the camera. On tour, she pretended to be an adult on stage, but once her shows were over, she was treated like a heavily chaperoned child. Spears wasn\u2019t even allowed to decide what she ate.<\/strong> When one of her hairdressers commented on Spears\u2019s insane schedule, they were fired the next day. No one was allowed to question Spears\u2019s father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a deal came along in 2013 for Spears to do a multi-year residency in Las Vegas, her fans were welcoming, and her show attracted a younger audience than Vegas usually receives. However, Spears\u2019s enjoyment wouldn\u2019t last. She writes that her boyfriend at the time gave her over-the-counter energy pills that greatly improved her performance on stage, but her father, who had control of her body,<\/strong> sent her into rehab, even though the supplements were legal and available to anyone. In a 2014 bid to break free from her father, she pleaded with the court to test him <\/em>for drug and alcohol use, but her request was summarily denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spears\u2019s Las Vegas concert series sold nearly a million tickets during its run, enriching her father, her management company, and anyone else connected to the \u201cBritney Spears industry.\u201d Spears states that while others were profiting from her work, she was only given an allowance of $2,000 per week, which she could only spend with her father\u2019s permission. As the end of the Vegas residency approached, she pleaded for time off to spend with her children, but instead, her father and managers ordered that she start touring again right away. Her father promised that if she refused, he would humiliate her in court for breaching the terms of her conservancy.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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