Britney Spears conservatorship 'confinement'.

Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. She is referred to as the “Princess of Pop" because of influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s and early 2000s. After appearing in stage productions and television series, Spears signed with Jive Records in 1997 at the age of 15. Her first two studio albums were global successes and became two of the best selling albums of all time, along with making her the best selling teenage artist of all time.

However, in 2008, Britney Spears was placed on a three-day psychiatric hold two separate times on account of experiencing conflicts in her personal life, including her divorce from Kevin Federline, attacking paparazzi, shaving her head, and losing the custody of her two sons with Federline. After the second psychiatric hold, her father, James Jamie Spears filed a petition to institute a temporary conservatorship of Spears, which was made permanent the same year. A conservatorship is a form of adult guardianship that allows the conservator-mostly another family member- to look after the conservatee. James acted as the conservator of Spears's personal affairs as well as co-conservator of her finances alongside Andrew Wallet, who held the posting in early 2009. From 2013 to 2017, Britney performed in a concert residency. In 2018, Jamie Lynn, her sister, became the trustee of her estate. Jamie suffered a colon rupture the same year and due to the stress from her afflictions, Spears had to go into a mental health facility.

In April 2019, a Spears’s centred podcast released a voicemail from an anonymous source, that she had been involuntarily held in the facility after violating a rule that banned her from driving, and that the conservatorship was supposed to end in 2009. Following the podcast episode, a movement to cease the conservatorship, dubbed #FreeBritney, began. Fans held a protest in front of West Hollywood City Hall and called for Spear’s release from the psychiatric facility. She reassured her fans of her well-being days later and then departed the facility.

In September 2020, the pop star’s lawyers filed an appeal to remove Jamie Spears permanently and replace her with Jodi Montgomery. However, in November, a judge denied the appeal for Britney's father to be removed from the conservatorship. A documentary titled “Framing Britney Spears” was also released to which Spears responded that she “cried for two weeks" and was humiliated by her depiction in it. The documentary pointed out the sexist media treatment against her and also brought more focus to the #FreeBritney movement, gathering support from celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Halsey.

In March 2021, Jamie wished for the conservatorship to end publicly for the first time. Britney requested to speak in court about her conservatorship. On June 23, 2021, Spears addressed the court, speaking about experiencing trauma and describing the conservatorship as ‘abusive’ and how her financial and physical autonomy was taken away from her. She said she was forced to work even when she was sick and also revealed that an IUD had been planted inside her body which she is not permitted to remove. She also expressed her wishes to choose her legal counsel as well as to marry and have a child while asking Brenda Penny, the judge presiding over the case, to terminate the conservatorship without evaluation. She added, “I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive. This conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good. I deserve to have a life. I’ve worked my whole life. I deserve to have the same rights as anybody.”

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