Britney Spears Reportedly Called Police to Report Conservatorship Abuse Before Hearing

The report details the last 13 years of Britney’s reported experience under her father’s eye, featuring interviews with family, close family friends and others.

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A new report from the New Yorker claims that just before Britney Spears testified in court on June 23 about the “abuse” she faced with her father as conservator, she called the police to report herself as a victim of abuse. 

The report, written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Ronan Farrow and bestselling author Jia Tolentino, is titled “Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare” and details the last 13 years of Britney’s reported experience under her father’s eye, featuring interviews with family, close family friends and others close to the situation. 

Farrow and Tolentino report that Spears called the police on the eve of the hearing, as confirmed by Ventura County law enforcement and a close friend, alleging that she was a victim under an abusive conservatorship, which the pop star reiterated in court.

The article also goes into detail on alleged interactions between Britney and her father. Jacqueline Butcher, a close family friend, said that her father pushed for her comeback in the early days of the conservatorship as Britney was put under a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold and released from the hospital. 

“Jamie said, ‘Baby,’ and I thought he was going to say, ‘We love you, but you need help,’” Butcher told the New Yorker. “But what he said was ‘You’re fat. Daddy’s gonna get you on a diet and a trainer, and you’re gonna get back in shape.’”

Butcher also claimed that Jamie Spears would “get all in her face—spittle was flying—telling her she was a whore and a terrible mother” and that the father “got rid of anyone his daughter had been close to” outside of her children. The family friend also claimed that Jamie fired a housekeeper who was close with Spears, saying “anyone that works for her from now on goes through me.”

The article also claimed that Spears had been pushing for the end of the conservatorship since it began in 2008. 

“While hospitalized, she had contacted a lawyer named Adam Streisand,” Farrow and Tolentino wrote. “He represented her in a court hearing on February 4th [2008], attesting that Spears had a ‘strong desire’ that Jamie not be a conservator.”

Last week, Britney requested that her conservatorship be lifted, alleging that her father won’t let her remove an IUD and have another child. A request filed in November to remove Jamie as conservator was denied by a judge earlier this week, but without prejudice, so the petition can be filed again.

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