Britney Spears addressed the court on Wednesday for the first time since her court-appointed attorney filed to remove her father Jamie Spears as conservator of her estate last August.
Spears appeared in court via Zoom. After technical difficulties delayed the hearing, Spears requested that her testimony remain open for all to hear because “they’ve done a pretty good job exploiting my life.”
Spears’ harrowing testimony presented her side of the last 13 years of her life, which have been controlled by the Jamie Spears-led conservatorship. Spears stated that any claims that she has dementia are false, noting that she had been the one to teach her dancers the choreography for her shows. Spears also pointed out the medication she has been given over the last eight years, including Lithium, which she called a “strong drug.” She compared herself to a sex-trafficking victim while describing a life in which she’s forced to work every day. “The people who did this to me should not be able to get away and walk away easily,” she told the courtroom.
Spears added that she had no idea she could petition the court to end her conservatorship. She had also been told by her court-appointed lawyer, Samuel Ingham III, that she should not publicly share details of what had been done to her.
