to feel so very unnerved by Britney’s Instagram?

[Lesserspottedmama]

Just that. I rarely use Instagram but found myself scrolling Britney Spears account today. It’s incredibly unnerving. She is clearly very very unwell. I found some of her videos disturbing and hard to watch.

Anyway what kicked off this whole Free Britney movement was that she was photographed driving to a drive thru burger place, she was promptly thrown into a mental institution for three months as a result.

That sounds like a bit of a stretch.

Psychiatric medication can absolutely interfere with someone's ability to drive (not to mention you can't legally have a driver's licence if you've been diagnosed with certain medical conditions). Plus Britney has a long history of dangerous driving and making very risky decisions with her driving, especially with her children in the car. Her past history with cars and driving is undeniably unstable. I don't know why people make a big deal about her not being allowed to drive (would it even be legal for her to drive?), it's clearly dangerous and she has more than enough money for 24/7 chauffeurs if she wants. Driving is not some little harmless thing.

The wording of "thrown into a mental institution" is not helpful and old-fashioned/ableist. The correct term is psychiatric hospital, and people are not "thrown into" them. If Britney's condition degenerated to the point that she needed hospitalisation, that's very sad. But no hospital would admit someone for three months without due cause. Framing it like all she wanted to do was go for an innocent drive and hospitalisation was some kind of punishment is an odd way of looking at it. It's probably more accurate that somehow gaining access to a car and taking off was a red flag that her mental health was in crisis.

But I doubt that she is. I hope Brittney succeeds in removing her father and accessing independent conservatorship which is all she has asked for. She hasn’t asked to remove the order, so at some level she is aware that she can’t manage her own life safely. Can you imagine how scary it must feel to be completely powerless in your own life and not trusting the person who can make all of the decisions for you?

I think it’s very sad too. A year or so ago her insta seemed relatively ‘normal’ or maybe was just managed for her? Then it started to become more and more strange with all the spinning round videos and posting five of the same selfies in one go.

I have a soft spot for Britney. She’s so sweet. I hope she gets well and the right people are looking out for her.

@Zofloramummy

But I doubt that she is. I hope Brittney succeeds in removing her father and accessing independent conservatorship which is all she has asked for. She hasn’t asked to remove the order, so at some level she is aware that she can’t manage her own life safely. Can you imagine how scary it must feel to be completely powerless in your own life and not trusting the person who can make all of the decisions for you?

Hasn’t the conservatorship moved to her sister?

Her selfies (assuming she's taking them herself) are all the same. Close ups, head slightly down, eyes looking up, smudged make up. Really sad to see, she looks very medicated and not well at all.

Honestly I really, really don't think anyone with incapacitating dementia should be allowed to do a Vegas residency.

I'm sure there are better ways to keep her occupied than rolling her out in a catsuit in front of public crowds, like a performing monkey, when she's apparently too incapacitated to be trusted with a mobile phone.

I've fallen down the FreeBritney rabbit hole not too long ago and it's really interesting.

On the one hand, she has a lifetime convervatorship, which essentially means she will require someone looking after her affairs for the rest of her life. But on the other hand, she is able to make albums, tour and have a residency.

I saw the photo as him framing her face as it's so pretty. Cheesy but still.

Can't believe how young she was when she found fame and how grim it was with everyone letching over her.

@yourhairiswinterfire no Jamie Spears remains her conservator but she ‘won’ the right for it to become a co-conservatorship with the Bessemer Trust. Her sister I think manages a trust fund for Britney’s children?

I agree with PP that it is sad and she is unwell, however, I don’t believe it is her posting. Not that that doesn’t make her behaviour any less odd, she still does those odd things but I don’t think she’s posting it or writing the captions.

It’s so confusing coz we will never really know what she has or what has happened in her life, fame and Hollywood is definitely poisonous and the attention she got especially whilst pregnant, is really awful. Paparazzi’s are not held accountable for hounding young women and that’s pretty scary!

She was so poorly after her second baby. I did think she may have suffered with post partum psychosis.

@CoronaIsWatching

She doesn't access social media, her management team posts everything, makes up the captions etc

If you want to get really dark some of it smacks of her handlers wanting to make her look doolally to make the conservatorship look more valid

Regardless it's a modern day slavery issue and really needs taking up by some big international human rights organisation.

How do her management make videos of her talking to her ‘Instagram followers’ without her?! That’s pretty impossible

Hasn’t the conservatorship moved to her sister?

No, her sister was made custodian of a trust fund that exists to protect Britney's children financial future should anything happen to Britney. Nothing to do with the conservatorship and the sister's role doesn't become active unless Britney passes away.

@CoronaIsWatching

She doesn't access social media, her management team posts everything, makes up the captions etc

If you want to get really dark some of it smacks of her handlers wanting to make her look doolally to make the conservatorship look more valid

Regardless it's a modern day slavery issue and really needs taking up by some big international human rights organisation.

Do you have proof of that? If that is the case how do they have videos of her which are clearly her talking to her fans for social media uploads? Are they drugging her to dance to spin this narrative? It looks like it’s posted by her frankly. With no one controlling it, or advising her.

She was thrown into the spot light at a very young age. That has ramifications based on so many child stars. She appears to have some issues with mental health and / or possible prescription drugs in my personal opinion. Though I don’t truly know.

There looks to be family issues, which are likely born from trying to guide her or control her.

It’s really sad if she is unhappy. Its really sad if her children are concerned or affected.

It's all most odd:(

Great article here

@EmilyinWolverhampton

Hasn’t the conservatorship moved to her sister?

No, her sister was made custodian of a trust fund that exists to protect Britney's children financial future should anything happen to Britney. Nothing to do with the conservatorship and the sister's role doesn't become active unless Britney passes away.

Oh I didn’t know that. How odd it wouldn’t be moved to her entirely if that is what the request was. I can only assume that the court has ruled based on the facts they have, and that her father is doing his best under a situation ‘we the public’ don’t fully know.

@Lesserspottedmama

MorganKitten - that’s interesting, how is she accessing social media without a phone? And it seems like she definitely does have a partner, she calls him her boyfriend and he’s in many of her pictures and videos? It’s terrible to think she’s potentially been used and abused by everyone around her, for her whole life - not that we can know that for sure but I know her parents but her out there as a child star around the age of 10 or so.

There’s a set up in her house to film social media set ups, he showed it in a video he filmed of Britney. She has a phone that she has to ask to use. He is a ‘partner’ who gets an allowance from her dad. She had to ask permission for him to be with her. Her dad is an abusive alcoholic, he used to hit her mum, her oldest son has a restraining order against him. Her sister recently became one of her guardians, and recently bought a new house...

@leopardspotsdotdotdot also because Britney is not allowed to employ her own legal team under the terms of the conservatorship. The judge ruled on her financial situation that she was in debt and now has an estate of 60million therefore Jamie Spears is doing a good job.

conservatorship was granted on the basis of dementia Are you sure. I thought it was due to numerous public breakdowns and the stand off with her DC which were both understandable had she been suffering with post natal psychosis.
She was put into a psychiatric hospital and agreed to her DF taking over.

@EmilyinWolverhampton

Hasn’t the conservatorship moved to her sister?

No, her sister was made custodian of a trust fund that exists to protect Britney's children financial future should anything happen to Britney. Nothing to do with the conservatorship and the sister's role doesn't become active unless Britney passes away.

Her sister gets an allowance to look after the trust, and bought a very nice new house recently

I know nothing about her at all, was alerted to her mental state by some insta footage doing the media rounds.

I find the whole conservatorship deeply disturbing and patriarchal.

@Emeraldshamrock I fell down the Britney rabbit hole during lockdown and found the court records. The medical condition was stated as dementia. Therefore by logical conclusion incurable and therefore a lifelong conservatorship was granted.

@Emeraldshamrock

conservatorship was granted on the basis of dementia Are you sure. I thought it was due to numerous public breakdowns and the stand off with her DC which were both understandable had she been suffering with post natal psychosis. She was put into a psychiatric hospital and agreed to her DF taking over.

It was for the public breakdowns and Sam Luffti feeding her drugs. She’s bipolar The paperwork states she has the same brain function as someone with dementia, but her dad refuses to have her retested while he’s in control. In LA you can doctor shop very easy.

It seems strange that people are complaining about her life being controlled and then suggesting she should be forced to have her hair done to what they consider an acceptable standard. Even mentally ill people can make some decisions and doing their hair is one of them.