Britney Spears Pushed to End Conservatorship for Years, According to Court Docs

Britney Spears has pushed to end the conservatorship under her father Jamie Spears for years, the New York Times reported on Tuesday (June 22).

Confidential court records obtained by the outlet reveal that she expressed opposition to the way the court-appointed conservatorship under her father was being run earlier than previously known.

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“She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report, adding that she felt the system had “too much control…too, too much!”

Britney reportedly informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible.

“She is ‘sick of being taken advantage of’ and she said she is the one working and earning her money but everyone around her is on her payroll,” the investigator added in that report.

As early as 2014, in a hearing, her lawyer said his client wanted to explore removal of her father as her conservator, citing his drinking, among other objections in a “shopping list” of grievances.

During her The Circus Starring Britney Spears tour, her first tour under the conservatorship, a former nanny and housekeeper claimed Jamie engaged in “verbal abuse, tirades, inappropriate behavior and alcoholic relapses,” via a legal letter sent in 2010 that threatened a lawsuit.

In 2014, Britney‘s lawyer told the court that she believed her father was drinking, while lawyers representing the conservatorship responded that he never failed voluntarily submitted alcohol tests.

“She said to me, when she gave me this shopping list, that she anticipates that, as it has been done before, the court will simply sweep it under the carpet and ignore any negative inferences with regard to Mr. Spears,” her lawyer said during the transcript.

In response to her request to end the conservatorship, the judge said that if she established a healthy relationship with a therapist and returned one year’s worth of clean drug tests, she would take the matter under consideration, but it was not guaranteed.

She also wanted to make changes to her home, but was forbidden by her father, who told her it was too much money.

According to a transcript from a court appearance in 2019, Britney claimed that she had been forced into a mental health facility against her will for standing up for herself during a rehearsal, and also claimed she had been forced to perform while sick with a 104-degree fever, calling it one of the scariest moments of her life. She told those present in the court that there was nothing wrong with her.

She is expected to addressed the court directly on Wednesday (June 23).

“Any time Britney wants to end her conservatorship, she can ask her lawyer to file a petition to terminate it; she has always had this right but in 13 years has never exercised it,” her father’s lawyer Vivian Lee Thoreen said earlier in the year.

Britney also recently opened up about whether she felt ready to return to the stage.