Britney Spears Shares Voice Memo Detailing Conservatorship: “My Family Threw Me Away”
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Britney Spears uploaded a 22-minute voice memo to her official YouTube channel on Sunday, August 28th, detailing new allegations about her conservatorship under her father Jamie Spears. The audio-only clip, which originally appeared unlisted on YouTube before being set to private, was shared on her Twitter account through a since-deleted tweet. Throughout the recording, Spears explained how the whole experience made her feel like “my family threw me away.”
At the beginning of the voice note, Spears explained she has had “tons of opportunities” like an interview with Oprah to share her full story, but eventually turned them all down. The singer added that she has “always been scared of the judgment and definitely the embarrassment” of what others would think, but now wanted to “open myself to others and try to shed a light on if anyone out there has ever gone through hardships.”
The 40-year-old artist said the conservatorship started when she was 25. “I honestly still to this day I don’t know what really I did, but [due to] the punishment of my father I wasn’t able to see anyone,” Spears said. “You have to imagine none of it made sense to me. I literally spoke in a British accent to a doctor to prescribe my medication and three days later, there was a SWAT team in my home [with] three helicopters… Literally the extent of my ‘madness’ was playing chase with paparazzi, which is still to this day one of the most fun things I ever did about being famous.”
Spears continued by saying she now believes the conservatorship was “premeditated” with the influence of someone outside of the family. “A woman introduced the idea to my dad and my mom actually helped him follow through and made it all happen,” she said. “It was all basically set up. There was no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing. It was pure abuse. And I haven’t even really shared half of it.”
The woman referenced by Spears could be her former business manager Lou M Taylor, who was previously tied to the early stages of the conservatorship both in a memoir written by Britney’s mother Lynne Spears and in the 2021 Netflix documentary Britney vs Spears. However, Taylor’s attorney Charles Harder denied those claims in a letter to the filmmakers behind the documentary. In a separate letter to Page Six around that time, Harder wrote Taylor had “no role whatsoever in the creation of a conservatorship for Britney Spears.”
Spears went on to elaborate on the lengths that Jamie Spears went to “control everything I did.” She recalled, “I remember the first day he said I’m Britney Spears, and I’m calling the shots, and I’m like alrighty then.”
According to Spears’ recollection, she was forced back to work directly after being hospitalized for two weeks while “completely traumatized out of my mind” by appearing on the TV show How I Met Your Mother and starting to record her album Circus.
“All I do remember is I had to do what I was told,” she said. “I was told I was fat every day. I had to go to the gym, I had to just… I never remember feeling so demoralized. They made me feel like nothing. And I went along with it because I was scared. I was scared and fearful. I didn’t even really do anything, and I had like a SWAT team [show up] — none of it made sense to me.”
Throughout the conservatorship, Spears said she did “probably four-and-a-half tours” as well as her “Piece of Me” residency in Las Vegas. She admitted her Vegas performances were “horrible” as a by-product of the lack of control she had over everything in her life.
“I didn’t give a fuck anymore because I couldn’t go where I wanted to go, I couldn’t have the nannies that I wanted to have, I couldn’t have cash,” she said about the “demoralizing” situation. “I was kind of like in this conspiracy thing of people claiming and treating me like a superstar, but yet they treated me like nothing.”
Even pushing back against a dance move prompted Spears’ father to threaten to take away even more freedom through legal action. “I just remember everything got really weird,” she said. “The next day, I was told that I had to be sent away to a facility… I was crying and I was like, ‘Why are you guys doing this?'” Spears said her father then threatened to take her to court for a big trial “you’re going to lose.”
Spears credits the #FreeBritney movement for ultimately getting her out of the situation and placed blame on her mother and estranged sister Jamie Lynn Spears for standing by without taking any action. “The whole thing that made it really confusing for me is these people are on the street fighting for me, but my sister and my mother aren’t doing anything,” she said. “To me, it was like they secretly, honestly liked me being the bad one, like I was messed up, and they kind of just liked it that way… I think that’s the main thing that hurt me. I couldn’t process how my family went along with it for so long.”
“They threw me away. That’s what I felt like — my family threw me away,” Spears said. “I’m honestly more angry at my mom because I heard when reporters would call her at the time, and ask questions of what was going on, she would go innocently hide in the house and she wouldn’t speak up… I feel like she could’ve gotten me a lawyer in literally two seconds… Every time I made contact with a firm, my phone was tapped and they would take my phone away from me.”
In response to the accusations, Lynne Spears shared an Instagram post insisting she had tried her “best” to help her daughter. “Britney, your whole life I have tried my best to support your dreams and wishes!” Lynne wrote. “And also, I have tried my best to help you out of hardships! I have never and will never turn my back on you! Your rejections to the countless times I have flown out and calls make me feel hopeless! I have tried everything. I love you so much, but this talk is for you and me only, eye-to-eye, in private.”
To close out the voice note, Spears explained why she decided to post it. “I’m sharing this because I want people to know I’m only human. I do feel victimized after these experiences and how can I mend this if I don’t talk about it?” she said. “If you’re a weird introvert oddball like me, who feels alone a lot of the time, and you needed to hear a story like this today so you don’t feel alone, know this: My life has been far from easy, and you’re not alone.”
Spears entered the conservatorship under her father in February 2008. It was officially terminated by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge in November 2021 after Jamie Spears agreed to step down as conservator and petitioned the court to end his daughter’s conservatorship. Expect to learn more bombshells in her upcoming memoir.
On the music front, Spears just released her Elton John-assisted comeback single “Hold Me Closer,” which we named Song of the Week.
Britney Spears Shares Voice Memo Detailing Conservatorship: “My Family Threw Me Away”
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