Britney Spears says "I just want my life back" as she tells the court her 13-year conservatorship is comparable to sex trafficking

Variety

Four months after the Framing Britney Spears documentary shined a spotlight on Spears' 13-year conservatorship under her estranged father Jamie Spears, the pop music icon spoke out candidly in a virtual court appearance on Wednesday -- revealing, shockingly, that she's been forced to have an IUD to prevent her from having more babies. “I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized,” she said in calling for an end to the conservatorship. “I just want my life back.” Spears described the control her father Jamie Spears had over her. "I worked seven days a week, no days off, which in California, the only similar thing to this is called sex trafficking," she said. "Making anyone work against their will, taking all their possessions away — credit card, cash, phone passport — and placing them in a home where they work with the people who live with them. They all lived in the house with me, the nurses, the 24-7 security. There was one chef that came there and cooked for me daily during the weekdays. They watched me change every day — morning, noon and night. I had no privacy, I get eight gallons of blood a week. If I didn’t do any of my meetings and work from eight to six at night, which is 10 hours a day, seven days a week, no days off, I wouldn’t be able to see my kids or my boyfriend. I never had a say in my schedule. They always told me I had to do this. And Ma’am, I will tell you, sitting in a chair 10 hours a day, seven days a week, in a fog… and especially when you can’t walk out the front door." Spears added: "I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby, I have a IUD inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant. I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have any more children. So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good."