A lot of us are asking why on earth, if Britney Spears can obviously advocate for herself and can perform and work and do everything that a normal adult can do otherwise, why her Father, Jamie Spears, thought he needed so much control.
There are celebrities who have been through and done much worse than Britney and they’ve never been in conservatorships, we’ve seen celebrities stumble drunkenly from DUI to DUI, we’ve seen them use drugs indiscriminately, we even saw them basically all but confess to committing crimes (OJ, anyone?) and still be able to walk around free as a bird, but for some reason Britney Spears wasn’t afforded that same right?
Why does Jamie Spears need that much control?
Yes, we all know very well what happened in 2008, but as of June 23rd we’ve been painted a consistently different picture. However, in a statement made by Jamie Spears awhile ago in an interview, we might be able to gain a little bit of insight as to what he was very misguidedly trying to prevent.
It is said that when Jamie Spears was a young boy of 13, he witnessed his own Mother commit suicide atop the grave of a younger sibling of his that had, unfortunately, passed 8 years prior. Now, you would think that witnessing that, that Jamie would have the utmost sympathy for his daughter when she cried to keep her children with her and just wanted an extra day with them.
Instead, he employed a conservatorship in order to use her children as pawns and keep them as far away from her as possible most all the time so that he could work her and benefit from the million dollar industry that was Britney Spears coverage back in the mid 00’s. Jamie has also had substance abuse problems himself, so that might would explain some of his logic, perhaps Britney is stuck paying off Dad’s debts, but they are debts that she herself would never incur, if you catch my drift.
So while he may have been worried about Britney’s mental health in the beginning and trying to prevent what happened to his Mom, he needs to learn that loving someone sometimes means letting them go, and that would mean letting Britney go and leading her own life.
Also, if they were so worried about the paparazzi covering Britney, then they should have asked Prince’s estate what to do, because for years he had a deal with the press that unless he gave the okay, they were not allowed to cover him. Granted, Prince never really did anything that landed him in the tabloids, but Britney was a new starlet, and her team is expolitative, even if they did know about such a deal they wouldn’t have informed her because it was bankrolling them.
Still, there were measures that her team could have taken that could hae prevented conservatorship from ever having to take place, but no one thought that far ahead, sadly. Stay tuned!!!
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