A clip of Britney Spears describing her life under conservatorship will be featured in a new documentary coming to FX.
Britney Spears fans were emotional after the trailer for The New York Times’ documentary series about her conservatorship dropped.
The trailer promises to profile the former Disney Mouseketeers swift ascent to global fame.
It will also chronicle her heavily scrutinized mental health and legal struggles that followed close behind.
One interviewee declared in the trailer, “How we treated her was disgusting.”
The documentary will also show clips of Britney in her 2008 MTV documentary – Britney: For the Record.
The documentary focused on the “Baby…One More Time” singer’s return to the recording industry after her breakdown.
In 2007, Spears suffered a series of public meltdowns, including a infamous incident when she shaved her head.
She was hospitalized twice in 2008 and lost custody of her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, who three and two at the time.
Speaking in new MTV documentary, the singer candidly revealed life under conservatorship: “I have really good days, and then I have bad days. Even when you go to jail you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out.
“But in this situation, it’s never ending. It’s just like Groundhog Day every day.”
The Grammy winner spoke about the control her father Jamie had over her assets.
She continues, “I think it’s too in control. If I wasn’t under the restraints I’m under, I’d feel so liberated. When I tell them the way I feel, it’s like they hear but they’re really not listening.”
At the time the documentary aired, Spears had just released her smash hit “Womanizer” and sixth studio album Circus.
Even with the success of her music career, Britney still felt stifled.
“If you do something wrong in your work, you can move on, but I’m having to pay for a long time. I never wanted to become one of those prisoner people. I always wanted to feel free.”
Even though she admits her “weird” life is all she’s known, she didn’t realise how famous she was until her breakdown.
“I think I’ve learnt my lesson now and enough is enough,” she told MTV cameras.
The “Toxic” singer has been under a conservatorship run by her father Jamie Spears since 2008.
Her father Jamie has been in control of his daughter’s finances since her very public breakdown in 2008.
Last year, Spears’s lawyer, Sam Ingham, said that his client was “afraid” of her father and had claimed that she would not perform again while he remained conservator.
Britney fans have rallied around the singer with the #FreeBritney campaign.
“While she does have a mental illness, doesn’t mean she should be dismissed and not heard she’s a human being,” one fan wrote.
“My heart breaks for her. She is crying out for help. Why will nobody listen?” another added.
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