Is Britney Spears using a secret code to tell the world she needs saving from imprisonment by her father?
affairs to running her cars and home, deciding what jobs she takes and even when and for how long she sees her children.
That said, during the past decade, she has released t hree albums, staged i nternational tours and hosted a $ 1 milliona-week Las Vegas residency.
She is also, according to dozens of happy family images on socialmedia accounts, a devoted mother to Sean, 15, and Jayden, 14, sons from her marriage to former back-up dancer Kevin Federline.
There has been speculation that the ‘conservatorship’ was granted because of Britney’s alleged drug and mental-instability issues at the time. Celebrity lawyer Adam Streisand, whom Britney asked in 2008 to represent her in the legal war with her father, and who appears in the documentary, told the MoS last night that the court refused to let him advocate for her. ‘For 13 years, no one has made another request for her. I’m glad a light is finally being shone on how little has been done for her since 2008.
‘I hope this documentary will be a force of change for the better. I’m pleased the world has got to see how pervasive misogyny is in our society. There are a lot of bad boys in Hollywood and no one strips them of their civil liberties.’ He added: ‘A conservatorship is allowed only as a last resort – when someone has no other options in order to function. She’s able to perform; she can host a TV show. It doesn’t look like a “conservatorship” case. This whole thing doesn’t feel right.’
Last week, a judge ruled that Britney’s father must split control of the ‘conservatorship’ with a professional management team and ordered both to devise a new budget and investment plans for Britney before another court hearing next month, when she will continue her fight for freedom.
She has said if she has to remain under a ‘conservatorship’, she wants her mother, Lynne – who divorced Jamie in 2002 – to be in charge. If the application is successful, sources say she intends to use the Netflix documentary to tell her side of the story. Until then, the world will have to decipher what it can from social media.
On Thursday, Britney posted a new video, showing herself on a sun-dappled hiking trail with her boyfriend: ‘Man, it’s so much fun out here. Especially when you don’t have to do anything at all,’ she wrote.
Inevitably, her fans rushed to decode the hidden inner meaning. She’s hiking to freedom,’ wrote one. ‘Go Britney!’