You know, many people who are close to her around the time suspect that she was dealing with severe postpartum depression. She got married six months after meeting Kevin Federline, you know, has two children within 12 or 13 months of each other. TOLENTINO: Yeah, so this is an aspect of the story that I don't think has been central enough to the public narrative around her so-called breakdown. GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, take us back to 2007, when the paparazzi was saying Britney was, quote, 'going crazy.' What was really going on behind the scenes? I think at the heart of it, though, it's about Britney's love for her kids, right? GARCIA-NAVARRO: You have an astonishing amount of detail about this story.

Jamie Spears is now asking for those allegations to be investigated by the court, and he has denied wrongdoing, saying he's acting in his daughter's best interests.Ī new article from The New Yorker magazine has fresh details about why Britney Spears was put into this arrangement and why she is so desperately trying to get out. And in dramatic courtroom testimony last month, she claimed she's being abused by her father, among others on her conservatorship team.

She has been subject to her conservatorship, which gave control of her to her father, Jamie Spears, and others for 13 years. One of the biggest questions surrounding the conservatorship of Britney Spears is how a woman who's been able to perform, cut records and work for her millions of dollars is somehow unfit to make decisions about her own life.

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