“Britney Spears wants to regain more than control over her fortune, she wants her father to leave,” said Liz Day, a journalist and editor at The New York Times.
Fans of the singer promoted the “Free Britney” movement to warn about the situation she was subjected to. Many celebrities have joined the initiative to show their support for Britney Spears.
After becoming a pop superstar, she was subjected to continuous control that grew with courtship and separation from Justin Timberlake. After the premiere of the documentary, he apologized for his behavior.
“To understand where Britney is now we should understand how she got here.” With this premise, the documentary “Framing Britney Spears”, produced by The New York Times and available on Hulu, reviews the rise and fall of the “princess of pop” and the legal battle she has been waging for months. from the Guardianship that her father has exercised since 2008, with absolute control over all her movements.
A decision made for mental health issues and which, in principle, would be temporary, although almost thirteen years later remains in force, Britney fighting for months in court to change this situation.
For now, and pending further hearings on the case on March 17 and April 27, Jamie Spears will share control of Britney’s business with private equity fund Bassemer Trust.
. “Britney Spears wants to regain more control over her fortune, she wants her father to step aside,” said Liz Day, a journalist and editor at The New York Times, who followed the case closely, as did followers. They. launched the “Free Britney” movement in the spring of 2019, after the artist disappeared from the public scene without knowing why.
It was later revealed that he had been admitted to a psychiatric unit by court order following his father’s request. From the beginning, celebrities like Miley Cyrus, Paris Hilton and Cher joined the “Free Britney” initiative, which received a new impetus with the premiere of the documentary about the artist.
PAPARAZZI’S OBJECTIVE.
In the late 1990s, and years after she triumphed in the Mickey Mouse Club, Britney Spears became the great pop music phenomenon at a time when it was not women who were the most successful, but “boy bands” who they were living their golden age, which did not stop the young artist from going with “Baby once again” and, a year later, with “Oops! … I did it again ”, two works that achieved millionaire sales.
Her success, relationship and subsequent breakup with singer Justin Timberlake made her the center of media attention, which examined each of the young singer’s movements, who could not escape the inevitable sexualization or answer questions that no one -he would have ever asked a male artist.
Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake had become the “American couple,” and after their breakup, Timberlake took on the role of victim, making Britney the center of all criticism.
Now, after the premiere of the documentary that reviews everything that happened to Britney, he apologized for the way he behaved then.
But the singer’s worst moment will come some time later, in 2007, after her divorce from Kevin Federline three years after her marriage, with several public scandals and the loss of custody of her two children, after she was hospitalized in a mental health center.
The documentary reviews some of those episodes with the singer in which it was clear that something was wrong, but that more than to generate alarm, they served at that time as a reason for ridicule, as happened when he- he shaved his hair. or when she attacked the vehicle of one of the paparazzi who regularly followed her with an umbrella.
Daniel Ramos, the photographer accused by Britney Spears in February 2007, remembers in the documentary the singer’s relationship with the press. “In the beginning, when the paparazzi followed Britney, you could say she enjoyed it. She greeted, she was very friendly, a girl’s love. She seemed to need us and we needed her. We both needed each other and we had a great relationship. ”
“Everything exploded when she had her first child with Kevin Federline. Everyone wanted a piece of Britney. The tabloid press paid a lot of money. When you’re caught up in all this, in the spider’s web, you really don’t see what the celebrity is going through, “he points out, before denying – despite the evidence – that Britney ever asked for all this Stop.
BRITNEY, WANTING to leave the screenplays.
It was Britney’s father who at the time decided to take matters into his own hands and seek Britney’s temporary guardianship. Something that, as Liz Day explains in the documentary, is designed for the elderly who cannot take care of themselves or their money, which is why justice empowers another person.
“This was unusual because Britney is so young and productive … but it has been speculated that she may be facing mental health problems or drug abuse. It is surprising given that Jamie was not an important figure in his life before that “, assures the journalist from” The New York Times “.
Custody lawyer Adam Streisand reveals that Britney Spears told her that she did not want her father to be her guardian or to control her finances and that she had asked to be an independent professional, which denied her justice.
The control over Britney seems to be exhaustive, as Liz Day explains: “According to court records, Britney guards can control who can and cannot visit her and can keep guards for more than 24 hours a day. They have the power to access their medical records and communicate with their doctors, take control of their home and even cancel their credit cards. ”
Not only that: they can sign recording contracts and offers, tournaments and TV appearances for her. “It is speculated that Britney may have accepted guardianship, mainly because she was worried about seeing her children,” whom she had lost custody of.
Since 2008, Britney Spears has continued to work, reaping musical success and increasing her fortune. In November last year, however, after the court rejected her request to “release” the bonds of legal custody, she announced that she was willing to leave the scene indefinitely if her father did not stop guarding her.