Britney Spears’ Conservatorship: Inside the Robot Factory Where Her Soul Went on Permanent “Pause”
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Is Britney Spears finally ready to rewrite her story in her own words, or is this just another cosmic alignment shaking things loose? The pop icon, who spent a staggering 13 years under a conservatorship, has unshackled her truth in her memoir, “The Woman In Me.” Between February 2008 and November 2021, while most of her personal and financial life was commandeered by her dad, Jamie Spears, Britney confesses to feeling less like a vibrant woman and more like a “child-robot” robbed of her essence. Maybe it’s no coincidence that, under the heavens’ watchful gaze, a star once dimmed by control now shines with a fierce, liberating light. As Mercury dances through Scorpio, revealing hidden truths, Britney’s memoir surfaces with raw emotion and unfiltered honesty—because who better to narrate the madness than the woman who lived it? Ready to dive into the real Britney, stripped of silence and scripted tales? LEARN MORE.
Pop star Britney Spears is finally able to talk about her controversial 13-year conservatorship in her memoir “The Woman In Me.”
From February 2008 to November 2021, the “Toxic” singer was subjected to a court-ordered conservatorship. In her memoir, she finally revealed how she really felt about that period of her life.
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In an excerpt of “The Woman In Me” published by People magazine, Britney explained for the first time what it really felt like to be subject to a conservatorship for 13 years, in which most of her personal and financial affairs were controlled by her father, Jamie Spears, 71.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote in her memoir. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”
The “Overprotected” singer went on to say that she felt “like a shadow of myself” during that period of her life.
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“This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult,” she continued.
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Britney worked the name of her memoir into the passage, adding, “The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.”
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In an interview conducted with People magazine via email one week before her memoir was released, the “Oops!… I Did It Again” singer explained what her new freedom meant to her.
“Over the past 15 years or even at the start of my career, I sat back while people spoke about me and told my story for me. After getting out of my conservatorship, I was finally free to tell my story without consequences from the people in charge of my life,” she stated. “It is finally time for me to raise my voice and speak out. And my fans deserve to hear it directly from me. No more conspiracy, no more lies — just me owning my past, present, and future.”
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In a message posted both to X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram a few days before the release of her book, the Princess of Pop admitted that she has “moved on” from many of the events that she mentions in her tell-all book and explained that she is looking for “a beautiful clean slate” going forward.
“My book’s purpose was not to offend anyone by any means !!! That was me then …that is in the past !!!” she began. “I don’t like the headlines I am reading …that’s exactly why I quit the business 4 years ago !!! Most of the book is from 20 years ago … I have moved on and it’s a beautiful clean slate from here !!!”
“I am here to establish it that way for the rest of my entire life !!!” she continued. “Either way, that is the last of it and sh-t happens !! This is actually a book didn’t know needed to be written … although some might be offended, it has given me closure on all things for a better future !!!”
“Hopefully I can enlighten people who feel particularly alone in most cases or hurt or misunderstood !!! Again, my motive for this book was not to harp on my past experiences which is what the press is doing and it’s dumb and silly !!!” she concluded. “I have moved on since then !!”
Britney Spears’ tell-all memoir, “The Woman In Me,” was released on October 24, 2023.
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