She placed a second call, then went home, where a sergeant and a deputy met her later that afternoon. After driving to a Ventura County police station to do so in person, she was told that no officer was immediately available. On June 22nd, the day before the hearing, she called a 911 dispatch center-part of a tenacious effort that day to tell law enforcement that she was a victim of abuse. In April, Spears asked to address the court directly. In recent years, she told a court investigator that she believed the conservatorship was an “oppressive and controlling tool against her,” and that she was being taken advantage of-after all, she was paying her own conservators, and their lawyers, often millions of dollars every year.
Early on, she tried to escape surveillance to contact lawyers who could help her, and to slip messages to the media through a friend. Since its inception, she has been fighting to get free. But the end of Spears’s conservatorship came about, above all, because of Spears’s own efforts. This moment is the culmination of many things, including a long and concerted push on the part of Spears’s fandom, the most devoted members of which have been flying the “Free Britney” flag for more than a decade. She now faces a legal battle with those who once managed her life and money, including her father and former conservator, Jamie Spears, and her former business manager, Lou Taylor, who has, along with her company Tri Star, resisted efforts by Spears’s lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, to obtain her financial records. She will be able to make her own medical decisions, sign her own contracts, and spend her own money. Or, at least, after a court decision on Friday, Spears will be able to avail herself of rudimentary freedoms that most of us take for granted but that have been denied to her during the thirteen years she lived under a probate conservatorship.
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