The Uncomfortable Truth About Freeing Britney
Three years after being freed from a 13-year conservatorship, Britney Spears has the autonomy she fought for—but as her erratic public behavior escalates, it’s time to ask if the Free Britney movement confused liberation with healing.

Britney Spears Accidentally Reveals Bare Breast in New Dancing Video. Britney Spears Disheveled & Distressed in Airplane Photo. Britney Spears Drinking, Lighting Cigarette on Flight, Authorities Called. These are a few recent headlines that pop up when you search Britney Spears. Not new music, interviews, or positive developments, but tabloid gossip fueled by recurrent episodes of apparent chaotic behavior. These are the latest in a string of head-turning antics three and a half years on from the Free Britney movement’s massive legal victory—giving Spears a voice and advocating for her freedom from a 13-year long conservatorship.