She continued, “I’m here now today, your honor, to remove my dad altogether. ”
According to Variety , the pop icon told Judge Brenda Penny, who oversees her case, that she was made to take psych tests “against her will” during her Circus concert tour, which ran in ’09. She says she was told if she complied, her life would get back to normal. “I did it all and they lied…they did nothing, ” Spears said. “They didn’t end it, and I kept working. ” The singer added she doesn’t want people to “question my intelligence for the millionth time. ”
Per Variety , Spears told the judge she’s not “perfect” but that her “episodes” stemmed from “what they did to me, ” presumably talking about her conservators. “It was their goal to make me feel crazy, which I’m not. ”
In her testimony, Spears also claimed her father got her driver’s license taken away, made sure she couldn’t drink coffee, controlled her diet, and took away her “pink hair vitamins. ” “That’s not abuse. That’s just fucking cruelty, ” she said.
She also opened up a bit about her history with her father, saying, “I was always extremely scared of my dad and scared he was going to show up drunk somewhere.
“Instead of wanting to investigate my behavior or my capacity, I want my dad investigated, ” Spears said. “This conservatorship is literally allowing my dad to rule my life…. That is abuse, and we all know it. ”
She also said, “I’m angry, and I will go there, ” talking about her desire to sue her father for conservatorship abuse.
For now, Spears has requested the conservator of her person, Jodi Montgomery, remain on her case.
Shortly after the hearing, the lawyer Spears hired, Mathew Rosengart, called for Jamie Spears to voluntarily step down from his daughter’s conservatorship. “This is not working. What’s supposed to be at the heart of this has been lost, ” he said. “There is a real question as to why Mr. Spears does not voluntarily step down today…. Is he here for financial reasons? Does anybody really believe that Mr. Spears’s involvement is in the best interest of his daughter? ” Rosengart also confirmed his firm will be investigating the origins of Spears’s conservatorship, which was put in effect in 2008. That he said, “A conservatorship was probably not necessary. ”
Jamie’s lawyer, Vivian Thoreen, said the elder Spears would not resign.
Jodi Montgomery claims Jamie Spears used his daughter’s money for his own defense.
In documents filed in Los Angeles court on July 9, per People , Britney’s personal conservator accused Jamie of taking “more than $2 million of his daughter’s money” to defend himself and remain in control of Britney’s estate.
“It is ironic that Mr. Spears now wants the conservatorship to ‘reflect her wishes, ’ since it is no secret that Ms. Spears has wished her father out of her life for years, ” Montgomery’s lawyer Lauriann Wright also wrote in the document. Read more, here.
Britney Spears’s mom, Lynne Spears, petitions the court to allow Britney to choose her own attorney.
Lynne Spears is advocating for Britney to be able to choose her own representation in her conservatorship case. Lynne petitioned the Los Angeles County Superior Court for Britney to pick her attorney, according to CNN .
“Now, and for days gone by many years, Conservatee is able to take care of her person and in reality has, within the parameters of this conservatorship, earned literally hundreds of millions of dollars being an international celebrity, ” the petition states.
The filing was made one week after Britney’s testimony in which she asked on her nearly 13-year conservatorship to be terminated.
Spears’s court-appointed lawyer, Samuel D. Ingham III, has submitted a petition to resign.
In her shocking testimony, Spears alleged she was not made aware she could petition for the end of her conservatorship—something that would be Ingham’s job; he was appointed to the role in 2008.
Spears finally spoke in court.
On June 23, Spears addressed the court directly and said she wants her conservatorship to end. “This conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good. I deserve to have a life. I’ve worked my whole life, ” she said. “I deserve to have a two- to three-year break and do what I want to do…. I’m fed up with feeling alone. I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so. ”
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