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Britney Spears’ conservatorship scenario with estranged father Jamie Spears is officially over, Us Weekly can validate.
“It has been our honor and privilege to stand for, secure, and defend Britney Spears, Ms. Spears is and constantly will be an icon and a outstanding and courageous artist of historic and epic proportion,” Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart mentioned in a statement to Us on Friday, April 26. “Although the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, her desire for independence is now certainly total.”
The lawyer shared that with the settlement, Britney, 42, will no longer have to “attend or be concerned with courtroom or entangled with legal proceedings” any for a longer time.
“Britney Spears won when the courtroom suspended her father, and Britney Spears gained when her fundamental legal rights and civil liberties have been restored,” the statement read through.
Britney’s conservatorship was terminated in November 2021 just after her estate was less than her father’s control for 13 years. In 2008, Britney experienced a collection of general public struggles adhering to her divorce from ex-partner Kevin Federline. Jamie, 71, subsequently was named her conservator and was in cost of her funds and person. (Britney and Federline, 46, share sons Sean, 18, and Jayden, 17.)
“Good God I appreciate my fans so significantly it is crazy!!! 🥺❤️,” Britney wrote through Instagram in November 2021 celebrating her newfound freedom. “I assume I’m gonna cry the relaxation of the day !!!! Very best working day at any time … praise the Lord … can I get an Amen???? #FreedBritney”
Jamie Spears and Britney Spears Courtesy of Instagram/Britney Spears
In her 2023 memoir, The Lady in Me, Britney opened up about how trapped she felt soon after becoming controlled by her father for a 10 years.
“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of kid-robot. I experienced been so infantilized that I was shedding pieces of what built me experience like myself,” she penned. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, produced me into a kid. I turned far more of an entity than a man or woman onstage. I had normally felt audio in my bones and my blood they stole that from me.”
Britney shared that she felt betrayed by her loved ones as no 1 fought for her in the course of the tricky interval of her daily life.
“I believe back again now on my father and his associates possessing handle over my overall body and my income for that extended and it can make me really feel unwell,” she wrote. “Think of how many male artists gambled all their income absent how many had substance abuse or psychological well being difficulties. No just one tried using to choose absent their control over their bodies and funds. I did not ought to have what my loved ones did to me.”
Jamie, for his element, did not see the conservatorship that way. In December 2022, he defended his determination to have his daughter less than his defense for a prolonged period of time.
“Not everybody’s going to concur with me. It is been a person hell of a time,” he reported to the Every day Mail at the time. “But I love my daughter with all my heart and soul. Where would Britney be suitable now with out that conservatorship? And I do not know if she’d be alive. I do not. … For protecting her, and also protecting [her two teenage sons], conservatorship was a great tool.”
