{"id":13229,"date":"2021-02-09T15:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=185597"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T18:17:48","slug":"celebrities-support-britney-spears-documentary","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/celebrities-support-britney-spears-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Call To #FreeBritney (Again) After New Documentary Is Released"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s hard to imagine a wildly rich and successful popstar (read: an icon of more than just one generation) and moreover, a 39-year-old woman, having her entire life controlled by a parent. Over the course of 2020, the public became increasingly aware of the well being of Britney Spears<\/a> under the legal conservatorship of her father.<\/p>\n

For most, her very public breakdown in 2007 and subsequent hospitalization still mark a cultural realization that even in the flip phone age, celebrityism<\/em> can drive people to the very edge. What most of us didn\u2019t realize at the time was that her own father, Jamie Spears, allegedly took advantage of his daughter\u2019s public humiliation and fragile state, and entered as her conservator against her wishes, becoming the chief exploiter in her life.<\/p>\n

And here we are, 14 years later, still pleading for Spears to be left alone.<\/p>\n

Released this week on Hulu in the U.S., The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears<\/em><\/a> is an unauthorized documentary about the star\u2019s abhorrent treatment by the media during her rise to fame at the age of 16. It goes on to discuss the circumstances at the start of the legal conservatorship and the many injustices that have led up to where she is today, a 39-year-old woman with little to no access to her own assets or free will.<\/p>\n