
The conservatorship lasted until November 2021. On February 1, 2008, American singer Britney Spears was involuntarily placed under a conservatorship by Judge Reva Goetz, with her father, James "Jamie" Spears, and attorney Andrew M. conservatorship, guardianship, estate, abuse.Britney Spears attends the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in NYC on August 28, 2016. The album led to Spears’ hugely successful Las Vegas residency, Britney: Piece of Me, which has since grossed more than $100 million. A year later, she released what she called her “most personal album ever,” the self-titled Britney Jean. version of the singing competition after one season. In 2012, the entertainer earned a seat on the X Factor judging panel, but left the now-defunct U.S. She got engaged to Jason Trawick in December 2011, but the couple called it quits in January 2013. She continued to prove that she was still capable of releasing pop hits with her 2011 album, Femme Fatale. Her song “Piece of Me” won three VMAs that year, including Video of the Year. Spears regained visitation rights to her boys and released her chart-topping sixth album, Circus, in 2008. Luckily, the incident set the stage for recovery.įrom Hilary Duff to Rihanna, our favorite 2000s pop stars have changed so much over the years - click through to see where they are now The Grammy winner hit her breaking point in January 2008 when she was hospitalized on a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold after refusing to turn her sons, Sean Preston, then 2, and Jayden James, then 14 months, over to Federline. Britney Spears performs “Gimme More” on stage at the 2007 Video Music Awards at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas on August 9, 2007. That September, Spears took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards, opening the show with a lackluster performance of her new single “Gimme More” from her album Blackout. Days after buzzing her hair, she was photographed attacking a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella, an image that instantly went global. Spears - who, a month prior to shaving her head, wrote on her website that the “media has had a lot of fun exaggerating my every move” - quickly became a tabloid fixture. The comeback queen! From Britney Spears' tumultuous teenage romance with Justin Timberlake to her epic meltdown in 2007, check out the pop princess' drama-filled Us Weekly covers through the years. … I cannot save her from herself, nor can I commit her to any type of treatment program against her wishes and will.” “I cannot convince her in ANY way to love herself. “There’s just so much you can do to help a person,” Culotta wrote. The pop superstar’s longtime assistant, Felicia Culotta, wrote an email saying Spears’ family and friends were trying to get her help, but she wouldn’t hear of it. Britney took an umbrella and hit an empty car Feb 21, 2007.

Britney Spears gets crazy after desperatly trying to see her kids at Kevin Federline’s place in Tarzana, California. I’m tired of everybody touching me,” as Us Weekly reported at the time. When asked by an employee why she just shaved her hair off, Spears replied, “I don’t want anyone touching me. “Then she all of a sudden realized what she did.”Īfter leaving the salon, a newly bald Spears headed to the Body & Soul tattoo parlor in Sherman Oaks, California, where she got inked on her hip and her wrist. “The only emotions that she showed was when she said her mom was going to be mad that she was doing this to her hair and she got a little bit teary-eyed,” Tognozzi told Extra at the time. Britney Spears has gone through her fair share of highs and lows - click through to see the pop superstar's most iconic moments
