Britney Spears Says She Was Made to ‘Feel Like Nothing’ Under 13-Year Conservatorship
glamour.comdirectly with her fans.The pop star posted and then deleted about the experience, containing just audio and no visuals, to on Sunday in which she detailed the years of “pure abuse” and emotional turmoil.
She explained that she wanted to post the video, “honestly just to open myself to others and try to shed a light on if anyone out there has ever gone through hardships—just to put a light on it so that person doesn’t feel alone because I really know what that feels like.” She added that from the very beginning her conservatorship made no sense to her and escalated rapidly, alleging that the entire situation was a “premeditated” plan by her family to put her under their control. “A woman introduced the idea to my dad, and my mom actually helped him follow through and made it all happen,” Spears said. “It was all basically set up.
There [were] no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing—it was pure abuse and I haven’t even really shared even half of it.” She said that the thing she remembers most from those early days was her father, Jamie Spears, and just how much “he loved to control everything I did.
I remember the first day he said, ‘I’m Britney Spears, and I’m calling the shots,’ and I’m like, ‘Alrighty then.’”The “Circus” singer also opened up about her , which included releasing four studio albums and performing in a Las Vegas residency between December 2013 and December 2017. “All I do remember is I had to do what I was told,” she said. “I never remember feeling so demoralized, and they made me feel like nothing.
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