Pop singer Britney Spears has opened up about her lifestyle during her years-long conservatorship, sharing disturbing details of abuse and mental “torture”.
Spears visited Las Vegas over the weekend. The trip marks the first time since she’s been the city since her canceled residency Domination five years ago. While there, she took to Instagram to reflect on her life as a free woman, and opened up about the horror of life under the control of her father, Jamie Spears.
“Being a guest in Las Vegas is way better than being me…or wait…is it because my family got to be the stars when I worked in Vegas?” she wrote in a since-deleted post.
“I was nothing more than a puppet to my family, yet to the public, I just performed on stage and did what I was told to do… but it was worse than that because it was accepted and approved by the people I loved the most.”
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“I’m not done,” she added, “I want justice and won’t stop until something is done to those who harmed me…and YES I was harmed.”
In another post, Spears revealed that dancing helped her cope with the stress of her conservatorship.
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“I did that 10 hours a day, 7 days a week when I was abused … there’s nothing worse than torture of the mind… I’d rather someone slap my face than f*ck with my mind,” she said.
Spears’ recent remarks are just the latest vitriol she’s expressed toward her family in the wake of ending her conservatorship. She has blasted her father, alleging that he abused and exploited her. She’s also attacked her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, over the publication of a tell-all memoir that portrayed the singer as paranoid and unstable.
Spears recently signed a $15 million book deal of her own to pen a tell-all about her years under conservatorship, her career, and her relationship with her family.
Polaro
10 hours a day, 7 days a week? That makes no sense. I wish her well, but I think she’s got real mental issues.
pcraze
Many professional dancers put in these hours.
Rocinante
I’m curious what doesn’t make sense? That’s not a crazy amount of time to work or practice for some people. I’ve heard of investment bankers working 90 hours a week in their early years.
I personally couldn’t do anything that much all the time. But some do; look at Musk. He loves to work and doesn’t understand people who don’t want to work at all times except to sleep. Probably considers sleeping a waste of time.
Polaro
You really believe she was working that much? Should have been a better show.
Aaron
Polaro, gas-lighting hard working women is not going to make your own short-comings seem bigger lol
THAT Steve
I don’t think anyone can couch diagnose Britney just yet. She was tethered and muted by her conservator and is still early on in her freedom. There has to be tons of things queued up from those years that she has wanted to say and the emotions have got to be raw still.
rphillips4165
I honestly hope they don’t pay her upfront for the book. Because everything in it is just her opinion. Nothing will be able to be backed up with any proof. Look I do think her family took advantage of her. But she does have a lot of mental issues. And now her fiance and all the people she will surround herself with will take advantage of her. But the book will never come out. For fear of to many lawsuits. And then she will owe all that money back to the publishers.
mel54light
Her mental issues aren’t any more or less than say someone like Kanye West ETC. It’s not easy to be a young, rich, successful girl (Disney) that didn’t get to grow up properly and in a family that just wants her money. I blame them for her mental slides. Controlling parents are the worst. She deserves any life she can get after being controlled by that sick family of hers. Quit being a naysayer, it doesn’t suit anyone. I wish her all the luck with her new book and fiance. I hope she disowns her family. They deserve it.
okokwhatever
Please!!!! This woman’s got more issues than the New Yorker. Everything she says is crazy and probably half true, if that. Here’s a novel thought; If she was miserable doing the residency then she SHOULDN’T have done it. No one put a gun to her head. Just another bitter old hag who didn’t get that pony she wanted
pcraze
She in fact was threatened to do it. She could stop but wouldn’t be allowed to see her sons and when she did take a day off they started giving her lithium against her will.
Marlyy38
No they just kept her doped up and put fear in her.. Her daddy had full control of her sound mind and body. There wasn’t anything she had control of. From the lawyers, to Dr’s manager and staff they were all paid with her money to monitor and control her every move. A 40 year old woman should not have a judge, parent, Lawyer make the choice of what goes in her body “surgically ” and ordered to stay in. That is a straight violation of a basic human right. She didn’t even get to decide what friends she could have even being monitored on a dang phone. If you see Nothing wrong with that . Then you are the legit crazy one. She had a meltdown. She was not M.R or had learning disabilities. Sadly that is how that conservator ship was treated. Like she was an invalid person.
M K
If her complaint is that her mind was tortured… That in itself is her family‘s defense… I’m not sure she has one So how could it have been tortured?
Marlyy38
Try allowing someone to control your every step and see how much it can mess with a humans mental state .
Woteva
I couldn’t care less.
cuteguy
Hopefully she will use some of her book advance to get the mental help she desperately needs. All those free Britney losers will be no help to her if she hurts someone or even herself. She didn’t deserve what she got but she does need some guidance. I’m surprised JT didn’t tweet again in his pr rehab tour