I was amazed the state of California allowed my alcoholic father who declared bankruptcy, failed in business and terrorized me as a child was given full control all my accomplishments and everything I've done, Britney Spears said.
Last year's book, "Britney Spears the Woman in Me" was a very impressive read. An excellent book I borrowed from the local Santa Rosa library.
The tabloids and the news merely tinged the surface of the Britney Spears conservatorship, which she endured for 13 years. During this time, any man who dated her had to pass a background check by her father, sign an NDA and submit a blood test even though she was an adult.
Conservatorships or guardianships are primary reserved for people with no mental capabilities, or ones who cannot do anything for themselves.
Spears admits she needed some guidance, and that she partied too much from time to time, but as I see it, she was very young, beautiful and rich, and enjoyed life. This is not a crime. Spears was the first woman to have a number one debut album and single from the same album, and she was only 16-years-old at the time. It's not her fault she was idolized at such a young age, and she mentioned how men of all ages have oohed and awed at her body ever since she was a young teenager.
Her mom and dad got her into show business, and as a pre-teen she got her big break as a Mouseketeer on the new Mickey Mouse Club, aka MMC. Mouseketeers were between the ages of 8-12-years-old.
Spears details her love life between Justin Timberlake and other men and keeps the gossip classy. She's the first to admit she wasn't perfect, nor is she now, but she's free from her parents and the conservatorship and that's fantastic.
I want my father to stop drinking and my mom to stop yelling, Spears said, recalling her childhood before she was the bread winner in the family.
In 2008, Cosmopolitan named her Ultimate Woman of the Year, and her song "Piece of Me" won every award it was nominated for, including video of the year. She was under conservatorship at this time, and her father flat out said to her, "I'm Britney Spears now.
Under her father's insane dictatorship, Spears was also a Las Vegas residency performer. While a Vegas singer, dancer and choreographer, she did 248 shows, and every show was the same songs and chorography because of her horrible father. Each show grossed hundreds of thousands of dollars and she was given a $2,000. a week allowance.
"Sometimes under the conservatorship I felt like a child, but mostly like a pissed off adult. Music was my blood and my bones, and they took that away from me," Spears said.
She also had four hours of therapy a week, mandatory AA meetings four days a week, training, fan meet and greets while also doing three shows a week in Vegas. Spears said she is sorry for not being able to give fans who attended her Vegas shows all she could because of the stupid conservatorship rules. Free Britney was something her fans did for her and kept her going she said in "The Woman in Me."
Under the conservatorship I was safer physically, but it was absolutely horrible for my sense of joy and creativity, Spears said.
She was also forced into a $60,000 a year rehab facility and was there for way too long. While she was there, her mother and father got rid of all her Madame Alexander dolls she started collecting as a child and three years' worth of poetry she wrote.
I made peace with my family, and by that, I mean I never want to see them again, and I'm at peace with that, Spears said.
In 2021, Spears got former lawyer for Stephen Spielberg and Keanu Reeves, and now she is no longer under her deranged father's thumb.
"I've made music, traveled the world, became a mother, found love. lost it and found it again. It's been a while since I felt present in my own life, in my own power, my own womanhood, but I'm here now," Spears said.
Mark Izzy Schurr
