There is a positive update on
the Britney Spears story.
Britney Spears
has secured a significant win
in her conservatorship's case.
Now she has been under the control
of her father and
another conservator who manages her
finances.
And what she's been trying to do is
change the lawyer representing her.
Earlier we shared that the lawyer
who had previously been
representing her stepped down after
it became abundantly clear that
Britney Spears found the entire
arrangement exploitative and wrong.
And so now Judge Brenda Perry,
I'm sorry, Judge Brenda Penny, will
allow Britney's desired replacement
attorney, former federal prosecutor
Mathew Rosengart, to represent
the singer moving forward.
The 39-year-old entertainer has
been unable to choose her own
lawyer since the conservatorship's
inception in 2008.
It's expected that Rosengart's
first order of business once
officially instated will be trying
to oust her father, Jamie Spears,
who is unfortunately serving as
Brittany Spears's conservator.
Now in a phone interview with NBC,
Brittany Spears did not hold back
in expressing what she plans to
do moving forward in regard to her
father and how she feels that he
had abused and exploited her.
She says, quote, I'm here to get
rid of my dad and charge him with
conservatorship abuse.
The singer said she wants her
father investigated and that quote,
this conservatorship has
allowed my dad to ruin my life.
And she has, as you all probably
know, incredibly negative feelings
toward the entire arrangement
saying that, their goal was to make
me feel crazy and I'm not, and
that's not okay.
Brittany called the conservatorship
[BLEEP] cruelty and said, quote,
if this is not abuse,
I don't know what is.
And she also said I thought they
were trying to kill me,
that's something that she
purportedly told the court.
And just to give you an idea of
how controlling the situation is
for her.
She had testified in court that she
wanted to have more children and
in order to do that, they would
need to take her IUD out.
But the conservatorship prevented
her from being able to do that.
She was denied the opportunity to
have more children.
Also, she was made, according to
her, to work 70 hours a week, and
they also banned her from drinking
coffee or eating fast food.
I mean, just literally controlling
every single part of her life.
And she's fighting back and
it looks like luckily she's making
some progress.
>> And apparently they lied to her
in specific regards to the courts
and she thought that she could not
get rid of the conservatorship.
So she recently found out.
Isn't that amazing?
She's been under conservatorship
for 13 years and she
recently found out, she actually
could petition to get rid of it.
So apparently,
if you believe her at all,
and I do given the evidence,
we don't know the other side of
the story too well.
But apparently they've been lying
to her the whole time to try to
keep her under control.
Now look, here's some evidence that
we can all see with our own eyes,
it's relevant.
First of all, it's $60 million
they're controlling.
So let's just keep it real on
what the motivations here are.
>> Exactly, and
that's a huge part of the story.
And I would argue that when you're
setting up a conservatorship
arrangement involving someone who
makes millions and millions of
dollars because they're a popular
performer, maybe keep an eye on
that arrangement to ensure that
there's no exploitation and
abuse taking place.
>> Yeah, and so,
I mean, she talked about how this
is similar to sexual abuse.
I don't know about that.
I do know that, I mean,
it is abuse of some sort if she's
anywhere near telling the truth,
which again, it looks like she is.
And so they would make her work
seven days a week and control what
she ate and didn't eat, why?
Because she's a product to them.
And the product needs to be skinny.
And the product needs to work
around the clock.
I mean, it sounds grotesque.
Now to me, here's an obvious tell,
okay, for those of us who don't
know the whole inside story.
Because of course,
there's some percentage
a chance that they're right.
What if she has mental
health issues and
we're just listening to her, but
we don't know the other side?
But wait a minute guys, if I'm
the dad in a situation like that,
and my daughter is going through
this incredibly traumatic thing,
and then she thinks that I'm at
fault, what would I do?
Well, I would say, my god,
I can't believe, and she thinks
that I feel heartbroken over that.
So let's solve this in an easy way.
I'll step out of
the conservatorship,
I'll let my wife do it.
Or if she's uncomfortable with my
wife, let's find someone that is
trusted that can do it because I
want to get my daughter help.
I don't want her to just be on our
own because I'm worried
that she's a danger to herself.
But if people think that I'm trying
to take advantage, my god,
I don't want that at all.
I don't want people to think that
about me. But more importantly,
I don't want her to think that.
>> Right. >> Of me or or
anyone else.
So let's figure out, hey,
Groza Garden, come let's go and
let's find mutually someone that we
can work with to put her in
the right conservatorship.
And by the way,
the money doesn't have to go to me.
I mean, it's my daughter's money.
>> Right. >> She's 39 years old.
The money doesn't have to go
to me at all,
it should go to her and it should
be protected under a trust, etc.
Now, has the dad done any of that?
So then you begin to get a sense of
who's right and who's wrong.
>> Yeah, when you really think
about what she's been through,
right?
And I've been going back and
watching interview before
the conservatorship,
before she had a mental breakdown.
Just going back and
watching press interviews and also
the way the press talked about her.
And she was a teenager when she
skyrocketed to fame.
So it starts off with everyone
constantly judging her, right?
Why are you dressed so
provocatively?
You're nothing but a slut.
I mean, that's what the messaging
was in the framing of
the question she was asked.
In fact, in the documentary about
this conservatorship,
there was a clip of an interview
that Diane Sawyer did with her.
And I mean, it's amazing because I
remember watching that interview at
the time and thinking that it was
a totally normal interview.
And so there's a positive part of
this where you see how much society
has evolved in a way, right,
because that line of
questioning and
that framing is unacceptable today.
But imagine being a teenager,
being told by everyone that you're
too slutty, you're too this,
you're to that, right?
At the same time, there's
a tremendous amount of pressure for
you to bear a lot of skin,
to compete with other women who
are doing the same business as you.
I remember Christina Aguilera,
there's like a competition between
the two of them.
And then Christina Aguilera comes
out and she wants to be dirty,
think about that culture.
And then you have a mental
breakdown because the whole world
is constantly watching you,
constantly evaluating you, and
constantly judging you, and
you're a teenager.
So she has a mental breakdown, and
is forced into this
conservatorship, and
she just wants some freedom.
She's nearly 40 years old.
>> Yeah.
>> And she's obviously been able
to do quite a bit in her career,
in her personal development and
growth throughout this time, and
to completely ignore or
discount that is ridiculous.
She deserves her freedom.
>> Yeah, so, guys think about it.
The adults made her dress up when
she was a young girl, as young
as 15 when she's bringing it.
She was younger than when she first
got started, but they make her
dress up in a certain provocative
way to sell more records to other
gross adults, right?
And then other adults come in and
blame her for it.
And they say,
why are you being provocative, why?
It's your fault.
Meanwhile this young girl who said,
they told me to dress like that.
And then a world of pressure, and
by the way it's in the last video,
I'll do it again here.
For any part that we contributed
to that, I feel gross and
sick about it, right?
And so because we follow the media
coverage at the time and
no excuses for it, okay?
And so she has all that pressure.
But then the last part of it, is
my God, she has a mental breakdown,
and then if she's right about all
this, her her own dad takes
advantage of his daughter's mental
breakdown to take her money.
And then he convinced her
that she's the crazy one.
And then that's why she has to live
under his thumb, and work seven
days a week, and never relent.
And she can't even control her own
reproductive rights, and
they oppress her and
keep telling her she's crazy, so
that he could milk her for
more money >> It's disgusting
>> My God, if all of that is true,
he's one of the grossest men alive.
Now again, I just caution all
the time because we haven't heard
his side of the story yet.
But the fact that he's not
withdrawing as Brittany's lawyers
are asking is obviously
unreasonable and is a sign of who
might be right and wrong.
>> She wants her father in jail,
she said that.
>> Yeah. >> That was a quote of
hers.
I mean, that is a strong statement
about your own parent.
So it's one of the statements she
made that honestly haunts me about
the story.
But the good news is,
it seems like there's some positive
development here.
It seems as though she's now
being represented by a lawyer
that she wants representing her.
So we'll fill you guys in as
the story develops.