Brittany Spears, she's on fire tonight 😬

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She's just popped up on my IG and gosh she dancing 10 fold tonight!!!

Dont know what it is but it all intrigues me, she looms happy enough though 💃

For those that think there’s nothing wrong with her videos you have to compare her to her peers, for someone who is just learning to dance and on an average income it might be fine to video yourself dancing around, but she was one of the biggest stars in the world, you’d hardly expect to see Christina Aguilara or Mariah Carey posting nude shots or dancing manically on their own. Most stars like to keep themselves private unless they’re promoting something, and then it’s professionally edited and styled.

This is so untrue, just a completely bonkers take, even if you’re confused with elderly people.

What do you think happens when someone has early-onset dementia? Because the person I knew went from diagnosis (orginally presented as depression/strange behaviour) to needing full time care in about two years - they were diagnosed in their mid-thirties.

I don't think I'm the confused one.

She was miles better than she seems now... that said she DID ramble a bit, and I didn't think she sounded terribly articulate tbf.
The difference perhaps is that she was still with her husband at that point AND still under the conservatorship (so possibly still on obligatory medication). It seems she has gone downhill significantly since the conservatorship ended, and her husband left.

How old are her children now? I wonder how they feel about her behaviour and if they have tried to help

Oh my goodness, the video of her dancing with knives

She's not a well person and that you seem to be enjoying her ill health says a lot about you. People who get off on her situation are scum.

Perhaps she was on meds while under the conservatorship and reading a script? It’s obvious she has massively declined now. She looks like she’s not taking her meds and is very manic.

Anybody looking out for her interests would not have her making those instagram videos or marry without a pre nup. Was there a pre nup?

Her father was absolutely proved right and the denegeration of him was totally wrong.

If she hadn’t done those LV shows would she have the money to live as she does now? In her own home with a team of carers, flitting off on private jets, which must cost a lot of money. She’s not able to make much now is she? He was obviously looking ahead and knew she’d need lifelong care.

The Free Britney bandwagon was a big mistake.

There are lots of forms of dementia, lots of causes and lots of ways you can get brain damage, genetically, environmentally or an unfortunate combination of the two, which is what I personally think is the case with BS. Dementia, and there are many other forms of degenerative brain conditions as well, also present differently in different people/cases. Just because the person you know progressed v quickly, does not mean this would be the case for all people/particular conditions. Especially bearing in mind she will have had access to the best medical care and treatments, even experimental ones.

And she has clearly got worse over the last few years.

The thing is she was still under the conservatorship during that court hearing, so she would have been on her meds and doing whatever regime was required to keep her healthy. I remember hearing on a podcast after she was released from the Cship that she had gone cold turkey and completely off all of her medication. Which makes sense as Britney under the cship and Britney now are like two different people.

If only she could see that the best revenge for enduring the conservatorship would be to prove them all wrong and show them that she didn't need it. But she seems hell bent on being bitter, not taking her meds and tarnishing her legacy. I keep hoping that one day she'll wake up and want to sort herself out, take the meds and get healthy but at this stage I really can't see it happening!

She’s not well , she lacks capacity, it’s not a choice she is making . She can’t get better. Her condition can only be managed with medication. Recovery isn’t an option, her lawyer confirmed it. Britney cannot recover, what she has is incurable.

There are, but early onset dementia tends to be of rarer types that are more aggressive and progress more quickly with a shorter prognosis than those that many elderly patients experience such as vascular. It is highly likely that Britney would not still be dancing when filming herself and posting online if she was diagnosed with dementia when her father said she was. I don't think even the best healthcare would materially change that tbh.

She may have her issues, be they MH, neuro or substance related but I wouldn't have thought dementia. Not sure why it was declared that she had it but I don't think it was accurate.

I'm a couple of years younger than her so like many of us I "grew up" with her. I was a big fan, went to her concerts, met her twice, even have a tribute tattoo....

BUT

I feel different about her now. I'm not sure to what extend she can be held responsible for the following criticisms given she may not even have capacity but if she did, these are the things that would make me actually dislike her:

1. She is a terrible mother. She might profess to love her children but she seems never to have been capable of actually putting their needs before her own.
2. She is a bit "Katie Price" with her dealings with animals. She seems to have lots of them and they just "disappear".

I strongly believe she was sexually abused. Either by someone close to the family or someone in the industry. What with all the other danger factors (difficult childhood, drug use, traumatic events eg cheating, abortion, press intrusion, mental health issues in the family) it's no wonder she's a mess. It's a real shame because if you look at interviews of her from the early days, she seemed so well-grounded, sweet and genuine.

I presume a lot will come out when she eventually dies, whether that be next week or (let's hope) decades from now.

I think they use dementia as a catch all for 'progressive brain damage' which can be caused by lots of things.

Notably extreme trauma and substance abuse, which aren't unlikely here. Mid 40s is where you'd really start to see the damage.

@Mummyofbananas What made you think she’s possibly autistic from earlier interviews? I‘m just curious as I wondered similar

I can't quote but to those who responded to my saying how surprised I was to hear how 'with it' she sounded at the recorded court hearing: she was presenting the same as she does now on her IG. I was following her at the time. A lot of the posts were deleted but I have seen no decline since then, just more of the same.
I can't help but have a soft spot for the woman. I'm not going to add to any of the speculation (as that is all it is), I just wish her well.

Neurodegenerative dementia is progressive in everyone who has it. It’s not a question of the people you know, it’s a question of what the condition involves.

There are other forms of dementia that are not necessarily degenerative including brain damage from an accident or a brain tumour or a stroke; from drug or alcohol abuse; or from infectious illness such as meningitis or encephalitis.

There are some forms that are reversible such as side effects of medication, increased pressure in the brain etc.

Britney doesn’t strike me as having any of these, unless she has some damage from drug or alcohol abuse. By the looks of it she has a serious mental illness - which can be progressive.

If the report of dementia used on the conservatorship is correct, I’d assume it was more of a legal tool than an accurate diagnosis.

Remember she did 3 tours after the conservatorship commenced.

2008 is when the conservatorship commenced, she was 27…

Hee husband left pretty soon after the conservership stopped. I wonder if she stopped taking what she needed to help her and he couldn’t cope? Who knows?’

I don't think anyone is enjoying it - what a weird thing to assume.

Yes, and now she's 42 or 43 and posting insane IG videos.

Let's not forget that she had a miscarriage not long ago, too. I'm sure that can't have been easy for her.

The cover of her book is also an image of her from years ago which seems odd to me.

It seems likely that there is a good reason for her ex husband to have got custody of their children.

Because she has serious mental illness.

@Lampslights can you provide sources for some of this

Recovery isn’t an option, her lawyer confirmed it.

Nothing I have read indicates public knowledge of a the post conservatorship care plan, or her prognosis. The only thing I linked earlier is to her dad ticking a box on the application cover referencing dementia.
You are making some very bold assertions re her outcome and current care but I can't find anything online to verify them.

Honestly no. You need to use google. I fell down a rabbit hole on it about a year ago, but no way am I going back and finding sources for you, like who does that, 😂