In the courtroom, the attorney representing Britney Spears’ custody asked Judge Brenda Penny to leave and seal the transcript of what was once the biggest pop star on the planet. No effect. Perhaps due to the accumulated silence over the years, on June 23, the pop star spoke for 24 minutes in a clear and furious tone, tying the sentences together with such persistence that she was interrupted more than once. I had to slow down to spell it out word for word:
“Someone has done a great job researching my life. People who did this to me shouldn’t run away. “
The night before, according to a close source consulted by The New Yorker, the singer called the emergency number 911 (the equivalent of 112 in Portugal), a call that claimed she had been a victim of abuse. on the part of the guardianship, introduced in 2008 and since then completely controlling his life. A phone call was enough for the members of the singer’s team, nervous, to feverishly exchange messages with each other. Doubt was in the air: what will Spears say the next day?
The testimony, which at the same time led to a number of consequences, when several of the main characters wanted to leave the scene, like the dominoes falling on the board, were explosive. In it, Spears said that she was treated with drugs against her will, forced to work, prevented from getting pregnant, and exploited financially and emotionally. “I’m traumatized. I am not happy, I cannot sleep. I’m so angry, this is crazy. And I’m depressed “– said the judge. “I’m not here to be anyone’s slave.” This “slavery”, according to the singer, began several years ago. In fact, you need to go back many years, you need to go back to the origins of Britney Spears to understand how such success had complex origins and consequences that were even more difficult to manage.
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The singer debuted in 1999 at the age of 16 (WireImage).
When Jamie Spears was 13 years old, his mother committed suicide in the grave of her son, who died eight years ago, just three days old. Now 68, Jamie was a basketball and football star in high school. Later he worked as a welder and cook. As an adult, he faced alcohol problems, which also affected his troubled marriage to his mother Britney, with whom he grew up in Kentwood, Louisiana. Jamie and Lynn ran away to get married when she was only 21 years old. Divorce papers, later withdrawn in 1980, show that two years before the singer’s birth, Lynn accused her partner of cheating on Christmas Day. New Yorker…
Britney was born in December 1981, and from the beginning, the family helped her in her pursuit of fame. before hits who made her a star in the world pop she took her first steps in gymnastics and dance, participating from an early age in local talent competitions, as well as in recitals. In 1999, the artist told Variety how she spent an hour traveling as a child to take dance lessons. Vocal abilities were discovered in childhood: if at two years old little Britney made a homemade microphone from a comb, then at five she made her debut in kindergarten. Next year, will win first talent competition. In the Rolling Stone, commented: “I realized very early what I had to do”… The family often made the financial effort to take her to auditions, both in Lafayette and New Orleans, sometimes borrowing money from friends for gas.
Even before her debut album Baby One More Time in 1999, Britney landed a replacement role on Broadway and made a splash on the Disney Channel children’s show Mickey Mouse’s New Club, where she shared the stage with others. generations such as Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake and even Ryan Gosling – and he became part of female group Innocence, but striving for a solo career took her other routes and higher hops. At the age of 16, he signed an agreement with Jive Records and with the aforementioned hit her debut becomes one of the most successful artists in the world. Curious, respectively from MTV, the song that released it had to belong to the TLC group, which rejected it. ABOUT video clip, Showcasing an artist in college uniform helped create a cultural icon pop from day zero. And this theme was followed by many others, allowing the singer to build an empire that she no longer controlled.