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"I Know Now It Was Premeditated": How Britney Spears’ Family Orchestrated Her Public Mental Breakdowns To Gain Conservatorship
When images of Britney Spears being sent to the hospital went viral, people thought she was crazy. Little did they know her parents planned the whole thing.
By Nicole Dominique2 min read
Britney Spears’ conservatorship started when she was 26 years old. And even though she was already a grown woman, her father still reprimanded her. Isolation was one of the forms of punishment he used against her. No one in her family treated her with respect, instead, they demoralized her. Now, Spears is sharing her story with the world to mend the wounds caused by her own parents. In Britney Spears’ emotional voice memo, she details the events leading up to her conservatorship and the agonizing 13 years she spent under it.