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Britney Spears attends Sony Pictures’ “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” Los Angeles Premiere on July 22, 2019 in Hollywood, California.
(Photo by Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the Free Britney movement<\/a> first made its way into the headlines in 2019, the viral videos and posts, largely shared on TikTok, were at first written off as conspiracy theories. Fans pointed to anything from the color of top Spears was wearing in an Instagram post, to the use of certain emojis in captions as proof the pop star was held against her will by her father, Jamie Spears, in the conservatorship she has been under since 2008.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When a <\/span>New York Times <\/span><\/i>documentary came out earlier this year titled <\/span>Framing Britney Spears<\/span><\/i>, it was clear the nuances of Spears\u2019 legal situation was finally being taken seriously by the media, subsequently validating the messages her fans had been screaming at rallies for Spears for years. <\/span><\/p>\n

But soon after, Spears herself\u2014who has never spoken publicly about the terms of her conservatorship, nor her feelings toward her father\u2014seemingly shut down the documentary on her Instagram account. The star wrote that her \u201clife has always been very speculated\u201d, \u201cwatched\u201d and \u201cjudged\u201d. She noted she \u201cdidn’t watch the documentary\u201d,\u00a0 but from what she did see, she \u201cwas embarrassed by the light they put me in … I cried for two weeks and well …. I still cry sometimes,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Credit: Brenda Chase\/Online USA, Inc. Britney Spears, winner of Single of the Year for “Baby One More Time”, at the 1999 Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles, CAAugust 1, 1999.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spears\u2019 statement prompted some to wonder if, well, we\u2019d gotten the wrong end of the stick. Perhaps the singer\u2019s father is trying his best to help his daughter, who suffered from a very public mental breakdown in 2008. Perhaps we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on as much as we think we do. Perhaps we should all… leave her alone?<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, however, there seems to be proof of Spears\u2019 situation, and perhaps also proof of some fans’ theories that she doesn’t have as much control over her social media as we think she does. According to confidential court records newly obtained by The <\/span>New York Times<\/span><\/i><\/a>, Spears has been expressing \u201cserious opposition\u201d to the court-approved arrangement of her conservatorship since at least 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A court investigator assigned to her case wrote in a 2016 report that the singer \u201carticulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,\u201d adding that she said the system had \u201ctoo much control.\u201d Spears went on to tell the investigator that she wanted her conservatorship to be terminated as soon as possible. \u201cShe is \u2018sick of being taken advantage of\u2019 and she said she is the one working and earning her money but everyone around her is on her payroll,\u201d the investigator wrote. In 2019, Spears also stated in court that she felt like she was being forced by her conservatorship into a \u201cstay at a mental health facility and to perform against her will.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to these court records, Spears requested her father be taken off as her main guardian as early as 2014. Last year, her court-appointed lawyer Samuel D. Ingham III told the judge that the pop star is <\/span>\u201cafraid of her father\u201d<\/span><\/a> and \u201cwill not perform again\u201d as long as he\u2019s in charge of her career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The sealed court documents come ahead of a huge moment for Spears. 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