Adult Brtieny Spears had to live 13 years under the guardianship of her father. PDO
Britney Spears discusses in his recent biography Britney Spears – The woman in me (WSOY) for several chapters of her guardianship, i.e. when her alcoholic father was an adult Britney’s guardian and trustee. Guardianship is discussed so much that it is the main theme of the book.
When reading the work, one gets the impression that breaking down experiences into the pages of the book has been therapy for Britney. And why not, his experience under his father’s tutelage sounds so harsh.
Or how would you feel about the fact that as an adult you are not allowed to drive a car, drink coffee, buy sneakers, eat chocolate and french fries? This was the case with adult Britney, according to the book.
And no matter how much I dieted and exercised, Dad called me fat. He put me on a strict diet. The funniest thing was that my father had a butler – a waste – and I begged him for decent food. “Listen,” I begged.
“Could you smuggle me a hamburger or an ice cream?”
“I’m sorry, ma’am,” said the butler. “I have received strict instructions from your father.”
Dad himself feasted and drank Jack Daniels. All of that was funded by Britney’s money.
So for two years I didn’t eat much other than chicken and canned vegetables, Britney writes in her book. Prescribing a diet was just another thing Dad used to control Britney.
Britney was one of the biggest pop stars of the first decade of the 2000s. The paparazzi chased her and in interviews she was asked about her virginity and the authenticity of her breasts. After a divorce and a nervous breakdown, Britney was placed under her father’s guardianship in 2008, and thus, from the point of view of Finnish society, the entire guardianship activity in the United States sounds strange.
Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, dictated his daughter’s life for 13 years. PDO
From then on, the father decided everything in his daughter’s life and had the right to his daughter’s huge fortune.
Britney was not even allowed to go shopping without her father’s permission, she was watched all the time. An example is when Britney was at the beach during the corona and took off her mask for a while.
The security guard rushed to scold me. As a punishment, I had to be under house arrest for weeks.
In her book, Britney, in addition to her father, excoriates her mother in very strong words Lynne Spearsand his sister Jamie Lynn Spears.
Britney sometimes seems paranoid in her book, and some of the text is suspicious. Have things really gone as Britney writes?
But the fact is that the whole family tried to benefit from Britney in their own way. Both the mother and the sister, described as ungrateful, wrote a book about Britney, and the father controlled absolutely everything in his daughter’s life.
The father’s authority even extended to what songs Britney was allowed to perform in her concerts and with what arrangements.
Britney had been performing night after night in Las Vegas for a long time, until Christmas approached in 2017 and she started to get bored. The show was the same every night, there was no room for improvisation, even the order of the songs could not be changed.
I had to perform the same show week after week, the same movements, the same songs, the same arrangements. I was desperate to change that, to give my great, loyal fans a new and thrilling experience. But I was always answered simply “no”, writes Britney.
Fans celebrate the court’s decision to end the guardianship. PDO
Britney was not allowed to choose her lawyer and Britney was assured for years that she could not change it.
It wasn’t until much later that I found out that was bullshit: for thirteen years I didn’t know I could ever get my own lawyer. I felt that the court appointed lawyer was not very eager to help me understand what was going on and not to fight for my rights.
At last, at this point, the reader’s sympathies are on Britney’s side. How badly he has been treated!
During the Corona period, Britney began to wonder if it could really be the case that she has been assigned a lawyer who cannot be changed.
So on the evening of June 22, 2021, I called 911 from my home in California and filed a report accusing my father of abusive custody.
The call started a series of events that eventually led to the end of Britney’s 13-year patronage on November 13, 2021.
Britney was free, the reader was confused.
The italicized passages are excerpts from the book Britney Spears – Woman in me (WSOY). The book was published on 24.10.