Britney Spears: 'I would like to charge my father with conservatorship abuse'

• New attorney: Spears has retained erstwhile national authoritative Mathew Rosengart, who attended the proceeding Wednesday. The determination came aft Spears told Judge Brenda Penny astatine a proceeding past month that she wanted to prosecute her ain lawyer to advocator connected her behalf, stating that she had been forced by her conservators to perform, instrumentality lithium and stay connected commencement power against her will.
• Calls for justice: An affectional Spears said she would similar to bring ceremonial charges against her begetter Jamie implicit his relation successful the conservatorship. "I would similar to complaint my begetter with conservatorship abuse,” said Spears, speaking to the tribunal by phone, breaking down successful tears astatine times. “I privation to property charges against my begetter today,” Spears said. “I want an probe into my dad.”
• Heartbreaking testimony: At 1 constituent during the hearing, Spears said she felt that those successful the conservatorship "were trying to termination me." "If this is not abuse, I don't cognize what is," the vocalist added. Spears called her conservatorship "f--king cruelty." Spears told the tribunal she was not consenting to beryllium evaluated to region her begetter from the conservatorship, saying she has “serious abandonment issues.”
• New lawyer speaks: Spears’ caller lawyer called connected her begetter Jamie to voluntarily measurement down arsenic her conservator, saying it was “in the champion interest” of his client. “Jamie Spears should beryllium removed arsenic conservator due to the fact that it is successful [the] champion involvement of the conservatee,” Rosengart, a seasoned amusement litigator now representing the singer, said extracurricular the courthouse today. “We volition beryllium moving promptly and aggressively for his removal. The question remains, wherefore is helium involved? He should measurement down voluntarily due to the fact that that’s what’s successful the champion involvement of the conservatee,” helium added.
• Past ineligible representation: Since the inception of Spears’ conservatorship successful 2008, Samuel D. Ingham had been her court-appointed counsel. He submitted his petition to resign connected July 6 aft Spears criticized him and asked the tribunal if she could prosecute her ain counsel. In the filing, Ingham stated that the resignation would beryllium effectual upon the designation of caller court-appointed counsel for Spears.

"I thought they were trying to termination me," the vocalist told the court.

"I would similar to complaint my begetter with conservatorship abuse,” said Spears, speaking to the tribunal by phone, breaking down successful tears astatine times.

• Britney Spears' younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, said she is "proud" of her older sister for speaking retired against the 13-year conservatorship. "If ending the conservatorship and flying to Mars oregon immoderate the hellhole other she wants to bash to beryllium happy, I enactment that 1 100 percent due to the fact that I enactment my sister, I emotion my sister. Always have, ever will," Jamie Lynn Spears said connected her Instagram.
• The younger sister besides defended her soundlessness implicit Britney Spears' lawsuit successful the past. "Maybe I didn't enactment the mode the nationalist would similar maine to — with a hashtag connected a nationalist level — but I tin guarantee you that I enactment my sister agelong earlier determination was a hashtag and I'll enactment her agelong after," she said.

• On June 30, Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, asked the tribunal to analyse his daughter's claims of abuse. "Either the allegations volition beryllium shown to beryllium true, successful which lawsuit corrective enactment indispensable beryllium taken," a petition from his attorneys, obtained by CNN, reads, "or they volition beryllium shown to beryllium false, successful which lawsuit the conservatorship tin proceed its course."
• In a tribunal filing connected July 8, Jamie Spears stated that helium and others progressive successful his daughter's lawsuit person received decease threats arsenic a effect of the ineligible battle. Jamie Spears, according to the filing, "has been the taxable of innumerable and ongoing threats arsenic good — not conscionable recently, but for years."
• Before Britney Spears' allegations successful June, Jamie Spears expressed his devotion to the vocalist erstwhile speaking to CNN successful December 2020. "I emotion my girl and I miss her precise much. When a household subordinate needs peculiar attraction and protection, families request to measurement up, arsenic I person done for the past 12-plus years, to safeguard, support and proceed to emotion Britney unconditionally," helium said.

• Britney Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, asked the tribunal to let her girl to take her ain counsel connected July 6, pursuing her daughter's allegations successful June. In a tribunal filing obtained by CNN, the parent stated via her attorneys that Britney Spears is successful a antithetic spot than she was successful 2008 erstwhile the conservatorship began. Lynne Spears besides noted that her girl is present capable to attraction for herself.
• "Now, and for the past galore years, Conservatee is capable to attraction for her idiosyncratic and successful information has, wrong the parameters of this conservatorship, earned virtually hundreds of millions of dollars arsenic an planetary celebrity," the petition states.

• June 23: Britney Spears virtually addressed the court regarding her conservatorship. In her 20-minute speech, she called the statement "abusive," and criticized her household and others progressive successful managing her day-to-day affairs and aesculapian care. Many celebrities showed enactment for the vocalist online aft her hearing.
• June 24: Britney Spears apologized to fans for "pretending similar I've been good the past 2 years" done an Instagram post.
• June 30: CNN obtained a petition from the singer's begetter and co-conservator of her estate, Jamie Spears, successful which helium asks the tribunal to analyse his daughter's allegations of abuse. He besides asked that the tribunal not assistance the petition for Jodi Montgomery, a impermanent conservator, to beryllium appointed the imperishable conservator of Britney Spears' case. The aforesaid day, a justice denied a November 2020 request to region Jamie Spears arsenic conservator of the singer's estate. This ruling was not a effect of the June 23 hearing.
• July 2: Bessemer Trust, a wealthiness and concern absorption steadfast appointed arsenic co-conservator successful August 2020, asked to resign, citing "changed circumstances."
• July 5: The singer's longtime manager, Larry Rudolph resigned. Rudolph's missive of resignation stated that helium resigned since becoming "aware that Britney had been voicing her volition to officially retire."
• July 6: Britney Spears' mother, Lynne Spears, asked the Los Angeles County Superior Court to let her girl to take her ain attorney, saying Britney Spears is successful a antithetic spot compared to erstwhile the conservatorship began. The aforesaid day, Britney Spears' court-appointed attorney of 13 years submitted a petition to resign.
• July 7: Jodi Montgomery, a impermanent conservator who oversees the singer's aesculapian care, submitted a petition stating Britney Spears requested Montgomery's assistance successful uncovering her an attorney. Montgomery's filing asked the tribunal to name a Guardian advertisement Litem to adjutant successful the process of helping the vocalist prosecute a lawyer.
• July 8: Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, submitted different petition, this clip asking the tribunal to reject Montgomery's request for property conservators to screen the outgo of further information for herself aft allegedly receiving decease threats since the June 23 hearing. Jamie Spears stated that helium and others progressive successful the lawsuit person already received decease threats and harassment for years.
• July 12: Britney Spears consulted with Mathew Rosengart, a erstwhile national prosecutor, astir perchance representing her successful her conservatorship battle, a root acquainted with the substance told CNN. Rosengart is simply a seasoned amusement litigator who has represented Steven Spielberg and Sean Penn successful the past.

• Fans rally support: Spears fans and activists gathered successful Grand Park successful downtown Los Angeles arsenic portion of a “#FreeBritney” rally. Other akin rallies were scheduled crossed the state and internationally. Those attending hoped to bring an extremity to Britney Spears’ conservatorship case, which leaves Spears' father, Jamie Spears, successful power of her $60 cardinal estate.
• Britney Spears, successful her ain words: Britney Spears requested to code Judge Brenda Penny to talk retired astir the arrangement. The vocalist attended the proceeding virtually by phone. She spoke much than 20 minutes arsenic she work from a letter, saying  "I've told the satellite I'm blessed and OK ... I'm traumatized. I'm not happy, I can't sleep."
• On her family: Britney Spears said, "A batch has happened since 2 years ago...the past clip I was successful court," she began. "I haven't been backmost to tribunal successful a agelong clip due to the fact that I don't deliberation I was heard connected immoderate level erstwhile I came to tribunal the past time." Spears went connected to accidental that she felt she had been forced to spell connected circuit successful 2018 and execute successful Las Vegas during her residency. In effect to her remarks, Vivian Thoreen, an lawyer for Jamie Spears told CNN, "Mr. Spears loves his girl and misses her precise much."
• On medication: The vocalist said that she was enactment connected lithium against her will. "I felt drunk. I couldn't adjacent instrumentality up for myself. I couldn't adjacent person a speech with my ma oregon dada astir anything. I told them I was frightened and they had six antithetic nurses travel to my location to show maine portion I was connected this medicine that I didn't privation to beryllium connected to statesman with." Lithium is commonly utilized to dainty bipolar disorder, which often causes episodes of slump and mania, a feeling of uncontrolled irritability oregon excitement. It tin besides beryllium utilized to dainty depression. In court, Spears did not notation immoderate imaginable aesculapian condition.
• On starting a family: Britney Spears said that she wants to commencement a household with her boyfriend, Sam Asghari. "I was told close present successful the conservatorship, I'm not capable to get joined oregon person a baby," she said. "I person an I[U]D wrong of myself close present truthful I don't get pregnant. I wanted to instrumentality the IUD retired truthful I could commencement trying to person different baby, but this alleged squad won't fto maine spell to the doc to instrumentality it retired due to the fact that they don't privation maine to person children, immoderate much children."
• Pleading with the court: Britney Spears pleaded with a justice to instrumentality her concerns earnestly regarding her court-ordered conservatorship. "The past clip I spoke to you...made maine consciousness similar I was dead, similar I didn't matter, similar thing had been done to me, similar you thought I was lying," Spears said. "I privation to beryllium heard. I'm telling you this again truthful that possibly you recognize the extent and grade and the damage...I privation and merit changes going forward."