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JUDGE: So I'm going to give
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the appearanceof counsel first.
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CROWD: Free Britney now!
Free Britney now!
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JERYLL: Your Honor,Jeryll Cohen
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of Freeman, Freeman, & Smiley,
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appearing for‐‐forJames P. Spears.
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CROWD: Free Britney now!
Free Britney now!
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VIVIAN: Good afternoon,Your Honor.
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Vivian Thoreenof Holland & Knight,
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appearing on behalfof James P. Spears.
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CROWD: Free Britney now!
Free Britney now!
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JAMIE: James P. Spears,
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conservator for the estateof Britney Jean Spears.
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CROWD: Free Britney now!
PROTESTER: Shh, shh, shh.
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She's calling in, I guess.
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PROTESTER: Yeah. She's going to
do it. This is it.
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PROTESTER: This is it.
‐ I‐I was able to connect.
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How about you?
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JUDGE: Good afternoon,Ms. Spears.
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I believe you areon the telephone?
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PROTESTER: She's doing it.
PROTESTER: I heard it.
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PROTESTER: What's happening
here?
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PROTESTER: She's doing it.
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BRITNEY: Hi, good afternoon.
CROWD: Whoo!
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PROTESTER: Yeah!
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JUDGE: Did anyof the counsel have
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anything they wanted to say
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before we hearfrom Ms. Spears?
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SPEAKER: Your Honor,this is Ms. Wright.
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I did want to ask thatwe please seal the transcript
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and clear the courtroom
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so we can preservethose medical rights.
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I think it'sreally important then‐‐
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BRITNEY: I think they've donea good job
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at exploiting my life
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in the way thatthey've done my life,
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so I feel like it‐‐it shouldbe an open court hearing,
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and they should, um, listen
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and, um, hearwhat I have to say.
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[protesters cheering]
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‐ Come on, Britney!
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BRITNEY: I will be honestwith you.
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I haven't been back to courtin a long time
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because I don't thinkI was heard on any level
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when I cameto court the last time,
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and that's why I'm telling youthis again two years later,
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after I've lied and toldthe whole world I'm okay
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and I'm happy.
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It's a lie.
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I'm not happy.I can't sleep.
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I'm so angry, it's insane,and I'm depressed.
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I cry every day,
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and the reasonI'm telling you this
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is because I don't think
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how the State of Californiacan have
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all this writtenin the court documents
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from the time I showed upand do absolutely nothing.
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It's embarrassing
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and demoralizingwhat I've been through,
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and that's the main reasonI've never said it openly.
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I honestly didn't thinkanyone would believe me.
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I just thought people wouldmake fun of me or laugh at me
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and say, "She's lying.She's got everything.
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She's Britney Spears."I'm not lying.
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I also would like to be able toshare my story with the world
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and what they did to me,
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instead of it beinga hush‐hush secret
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to benefit all of them.
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Ma'am, my dadand anyone involved
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in this conservatorshipand my management,
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who played a huge rolein punishing me
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when I said, "No, ma'am,"they should be in jail.
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[crowd cheering]
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[serene music]
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♪ ♪
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‐ [sighs]
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Like, I know this is
the right thing to do,
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and I‐‐I obviously, you know,
really want to do it,
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but... it's‐‐it's still scary.
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I don't know what's gonnahappen after this comes out.
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TISH: I've never spokenabout what we witnessed.
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You know, we signedthose NDAs,
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and it has been hardto come forward
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knowing there are peoplein her management
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that could stop me
from making a living,
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but this is important.
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This is a human life
that's been tortured.
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DAN: I think I'm doingthe right thing.
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I had to muster the courageto speak out
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because if not me, then who?
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FELICIA: When I readwhat Britney spoke about
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on her own in court,
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I was extremely proud of her
and the bravery
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that it took
to take up for herself.
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Once Britney started
telling her story,
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I felt like there were
going to be many people
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and many memories that
would need to be talked about
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to put all
the puzzle pieces together
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and make the truth
of the story come out.
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REPORTER: Spears, the former"Mickey Mouse Club" star
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who launched into the popculture stratosphere
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as a teen had a fallfrom grace in her mid‐20s
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that's become synonymouswith her success.
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ANNOUNCER:From Kentwood, Louisiana,
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here is 10‐year‐oldBritney Spears!
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REPORTER: Her new CD is titled"Oops!... I Did It Again,"
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and she certainly has.
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HOST: Britney Spears!HOST: Britney Spears!
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‐ Everyone say hi to Britney.
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‐ Hi!
‐ Hi, Britney!
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REPORTER: She's been outalmost every night
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with her new party pals,
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Lindsay Lohanand Paris Hilton.
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REPORTER: She began the year
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in style in Las Vegas,passing out at a club.
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‐ Britney! Britney!
‐ Are you okay, Britney?
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‐ My God.
No, wait, I can't see, guys.
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STAFF: Get off the car!
‐ Stop it! Stop it!
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‐ I'm a person, just like you.
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COMMENTER:Britney Spears, she's bald.
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JAY LENO: Friends say this isthe craziest thing Britney
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has ever donethat didn't involve marriage.
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It's unbelievable.
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DAVID LETTERMAN: BritneySpears had chapped head.
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[siren wailing]
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REPORTER: Thursday,a police motorcade
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accompanied the ambulance
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taking Britney Spearsto UCLA Hospital.
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COMMENTER: Clearly she's beensuffering some
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from some mental issues,
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anxiety, perhaps even more.COMMENTER: Yeah.
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REPORTER: We hope the best
for your daughter, sir!
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REPORTER: Friday, Britney'sfather, Jamie, went to court,
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and a Los Angeles judgegave him
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and an advisortemporary conservator status.
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‐ Y'all, please get
out of my way.
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[light music]
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♪ ♪
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‐ So the conservatorship
was granted in February 2008
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amid concerns
around Britney's mental health
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and potential substance use.
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♪ ♪
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Many of the court recordsare sealed,
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so there's a lot that'sunknown about the situation,
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but peoplein the conservatorship
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long maintained to the public
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that it was
a smooth‐running operation.
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♪ ♪
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COMMENTER: And as faras the conservatorship
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is concerned, which has beenin place,
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her father in charge ofher affairs, it seems to me,
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given all the pressureshe faces in her daily life
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just being Britney Spearsthe star,
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it seems like exactlythe right thing, so she...
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‐ Conservatorships are always
supposed to be designed
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around serving the best
interest of the conservatee,
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so it's
a really interesting question.
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What is the best interest
of Britney?
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[camera shutters snapping]
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FAN: We love you, Britney!
‐ Stay off.
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Hold on, hold on.
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LIZ: When the conservatorshipfirst started,
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Jamie had the power to retainsecurity around Britney 24/7.
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‐ Watch out, guys.
Watch out.
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‐ Why do you have to‐‐
You look great, Britney.
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‐ Edan Yemini runsBlack Box Security,
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which was Britney'slongtime security company.
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♪ ♪
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I don't think securityhas gotten much scrutiny.
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You may, like, see themin the background of a photo,
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hovering around Britney,
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but we didn't really understand
what they did.
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[soft investigative music]
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♪ ♪
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INTERVIEWER: Okay, so‐‐
ALEX: So I worked
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with the security team for
Britney for almost 9 years.
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I started at Black Boxbeing Edan's assistant.
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I did everything from write
his emails to
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be on all phone conversations
in order to take notes for him.
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I was the only person
at Black Box
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that knew everything, really.
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Edan was so relieved when
he saw the first documentary.
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He was so relieved
that he wasn't mentioned,
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Black Box wasn't mentioned,
Tri Star wasn't mentioned.
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It was his biggest fear
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that security would
somehow draw any attention.
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INTERVIEWER: So let's start
at the beginning.
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‐ When I started working
at Black Box in 2012, Britney
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was the only full‐time client.
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REPORTER: Come forward.
Come forward.
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REPORTER: Move forward,
Britney. Go forward.
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REPORTER: Just go forward,
Britney.
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ALEX: When I got the job,I was super excited.
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I just turned 21 that year.
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Um, it was‐‐it was‐‐honestly,
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it felt like an opportunity
of a lifetime
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because there was potential.
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[electronic music]
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But I would see hervery briefly.
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A lot of the times, theywould even ask me to leave
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if we knew Britneywas going to be home.
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I didn't know even anything
about the conservatorship.
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I'd never heard of that,
and everything that I would
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know about the conservatorship
would be from Edan.
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♪ ♪
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We were toldthe conservatorship
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was there for her own good,
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that it was there
to protect her from influence,
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from her losing money,
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that it was a way for herto have custody of her kids.
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The same thing
was always repeated,
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that this is
something she wants.
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I remember, I asked Edan,
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"Why is it that securityis with her 24/7?"
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And he told me
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that security was part
of the conservatorship.
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REPORTER: Britney Spears:
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A California court has namedher father her temporary...
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REPORTER: Britney's dad,Jamie Spears,
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just filedfor conservatorship‐‐
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REPORTER: Source tells
Us Weekly Britney's dad
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is now consultingwith her medical team.
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‐ For the most part,
Britney's father, Jamie,
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has been the face
of the conservatorship
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and has been the one
getting most of the attention
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and scrutiny,
but we've learned
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that there were a lotmore people behind the scenes
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who, you know, really hadinfluence over Britney's life.
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Her business management,
basically accounting,
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financials,
was handled by a company
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called Tri Star Sports
& Entertainment,
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which is run by a womannamed Lou Taylor.
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LOU: Well, we thought it wasimportant to hear a voice
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for Jamie and Lynne Spears.
I mean, here you have Britney
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that needs to have
some security somewhere
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that every single thing
she does
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and every single person
she has a relationship with
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doesn't become
an opportunity to be exploited.
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LIZ: And a Tri Star staffernamed Robin Greenhill
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was closely involvedin the Britney account.
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‐ Jamie, Edan, and Robinwere basically a part
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of every step Britney took.
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There was a group chat
with Edan,
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Robin and Jamie, and security
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where they would basicallypost all movement.
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[reporters clamoring]
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Even in the sacred place,her home,
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every single requestwas monitored and recorded.
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Her intimate relationswere closely managed.
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REPORTER: How you doing,
Britney?
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‐ You know, Britney
could not have someone
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in the privacy of her house
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without
those three people knowing.
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Edan would say,
"She's just like a child
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"and like any other minor
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who needs
their parents' consent."
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Around the same time
is when one of the new agents
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that was working her
was asking me,
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"How is it okay
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that we're in charge
of her medication?"
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You know, I was like,
"What do you mean?"
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He's like, "Well, we were given
prepackaged envelopes.
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"We have to hand them to her,
and she can't leave.
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She has to take it there."
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And, you know, every time that
was brought up or discussed,
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it was like, "This is what
security should be doing
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"because, you know, this is
what the client is asking for,
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and this is what
the client needs."
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INTERVIEWER: Was the client
asking for it, or‐‐
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‐ The client is Jamie.
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You know,when I took a step back
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and I looked at everything,
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it really reminded me
of somebody that was in prison,
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and security was putin a position
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to be the prison guards,
essentially.
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[baby crying]
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NARRATOR: Each of usbegins life
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needing the care of others.
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Later in our lives,many of us need help
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to livethe best life possible.
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In California,if people are found by a judge
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to be unable to care forthemselves or their finances,
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the court may appoint anotherperson to take responsibility.
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This arrangementis called a conservatorship.
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LIZ: Conservatorshipsare not meant
00:13:30.735 --> 00:13:33.279
for just anyone
with a mental health issue
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or a substance use issue.
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Otherwise, there would be
tens of millions of Americans
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under conservatorships.
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They're supposed to be
a last resort
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because they really take a lot
of powers away from someone.
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The standard in California isthat you are unable to feed,
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clothe, or shelter yourself,
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but Britney starts working
almost immediately
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after the conservatorship
starts.
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[gentle music]
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REPORTER: A California courthas now given her father
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limited controlover her troubled life.
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‐ Here, "From the personal
library of Ted Mosby."
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That's you!
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LIZ: She startsguest starring on TV.
00:14:08.982 --> 00:14:11.109
She starts recording
a new album.
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She starts preparing to embark
on this huge blockbuster tour
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called the Circus Tour.
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♪ ♪
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‐ In 2008, I was recruited
from Shakira's management team
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to come into the Britney world
to help right the ship.
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This was Britney's first return
to public life
00:14:32.005 --> 00:14:34.799
after the very tumultuous
period in 2007.
00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.427
[percussive dance music]
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The promotional tourfor Circus
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involved the Black Forestin Germany.
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We did the Bambi Awards,
the next day to Paris.
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‐ Britney Spears!
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DAN: That's where we shot
Star Academy.
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The next day, we movedto London to do X Factor.
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‐ Wow, ladies and gentlemen,
Britney Spears!
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DAN: A couple days off,
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flew to New York,
Good Morning America.
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DAN: Then LA...
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‐ Britney, would you like
to help the mayor?
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DAN: Christmas tree lighting.
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‐ Hi.
‐ Hi.
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DAN: Uh, Ellen,
which was a pretape.
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‐ We're just, uh‐‐we're
just kind of spreading cheer
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around the neighborhood.
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BRITNEY: ♪ Boy, don't try
to front I, I know ♪
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And on five, we'll just
turn around and just pose.
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Five, six, seven, pose.
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♪ Womanizer ♪
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DAN: Then about a week off,and we flew to Japan.
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‐ Britney Spears
[speaking Japanese]
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Give her a big hand.
Thank you very much!
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‐ Thank you very much!
‐ [speaking Japanese]
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DAN: It was intense.It was an intense schedule.
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It had to have been approvedby the court,
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so apparently they felt
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that she had the capacity
to endure that.
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[dramatic music]
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LIZ: The Circus tour goes onto gross over $100 million
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and is one of
the biggest tours of 2009,
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and the more moneyBritney brings in,
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the more money everyone makes.
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According to court records,
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Tri Star,the business manager,
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was getting 5 percentof Britney's gross income,
00:16:00.176 --> 00:16:03.304
and Jamie is making $16,000a month
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plus a percent of Britney'smultimillion‐dollar deals,
00:16:07.475 --> 00:16:10.061
so if her father, Jamie,
as conservator
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enters into a deal for her,
00:16:11.979 --> 00:16:14.065
is that because
it's in Britney's best interest
00:16:14.065 --> 00:16:17.068
or because everyone involved
stands to make a cut?
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‐ Like that.
[cheers and applause]
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FELICIA: It wasa toxic environment.
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It really was.
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I mean, it made many people
feel just yucky.
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Yeah. It did.
TISH: Yeah.
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Well, and I don't think
we've realized it,
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almost, till now
because it was always go‐go‐go.
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FELICIA: Yeah.
‐ And so, now,
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when you start
talking about it,
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and your heart starts
fluttering, and you get heavy,
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you think, "What is this?
What is this feeling?"
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‐ You will feel lighter
after you talk about it,
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after you get it out.
TISH: Yeah.
00:16:52.395 --> 00:16:54.480
I take care
of Britney's wardrobe
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for her and the concerts.
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We're introducing a new numbertonight, "Mannequin."
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Britney has designedall of the clothes.
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I have worked with six
or seven other A‐class artists,
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and she is always
my favorite to work with.
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She's the most polite
human being,
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you know, to work for,
but to also be with.
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Oh, this, she had a black‐‐
I made a black bodysuit.
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FELICIA: Yeah.
TISH: And then she wanted
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some green military stuff
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to add to it,
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but then I was told
to not let her see it, so...
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[gentle music]
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♪ ♪
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‐ I really do not think
that Jamie is the one
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that was
controlling everything.
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Who I dealt with
was Robin Greenhill.
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[spacey electronic music]
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When I first met Robin and she
was around and backstage,
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I thought she was
Britney's assistant.
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INTERVIEWER:
And did she have a job title?
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‐ I don't know.
I‐‐I‐‐we‐‐
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none of us ever knew
Robin's job title.
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It was a, "Well, she works
for Tri Star,"
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and then you go,
"Why is she here?
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"Why‐‐I mean,
that's the business management.
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"That's not your tour manager.
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That's not your
A party road scheduler."
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You know, like,
there's so many‐‐
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and Robin was Robin.
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‐ Right now, she's wanting
to know when she's going
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to start full run‐throughs
because she wants
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to chronologically go
through these things
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and get it under her
and see what she needs to do.
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‐ I had to have
Robin's approval
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before I spoke with Britney
about a question Britney had.
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INTERVIEWER: What kind
of things would she do?
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What would she control?
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‐ She‐‐every, like,
the little, little things.
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Like Britney would say,
"Hey, is there any way
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we could have sushi
for dinner?"
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And I would hear Robin say,
"You had sushi yesterday.
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It's too expensive.
You don't need it again."
00:19:04.819 --> 00:19:07.113
Maybe there's a lot more
behind that,
00:19:07.113 --> 00:19:09.448
but I'm only seeing
the outside,
00:19:09.448 --> 00:19:12.451
but if she pushed back
a little bit,
00:19:12.451 --> 00:19:14.078
they pushed harder,
00:19:14.078 --> 00:19:16.205
and then the yelling
got louder.
00:19:16.205 --> 00:19:18.416
Then Jamie would come up
and say,
00:19:18.416 --> 00:19:21.252
"No.
You're not having this,"
00:19:21.252 --> 00:19:24.714
and then it would escalate
to not having the boys.
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♪ ♪
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‐ But, Jamie, you need
to give us the days
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that she has the kids
and needs to be home.
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JAMIE: I'll take care
of the kids.
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‐ Okay.
‐ And she'll just come in
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wherever
because I'm going to be the one
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to go stay with the kids.
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‐ Hey, Jamie.
‐ Can we go say hi to Mama?
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‐ What's up, boys?
‐ No, Mama is working.
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[dance music playing]
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EMCEE:Put your hands in the air!
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TISH: We wereon the Circus tour.
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We had a road case.
She gets in the road case.
00:19:55.870 --> 00:20:00.333
It has a nice chair,
ventilation, some fans in it.
00:20:00.333 --> 00:20:03.836
Then crew members
push the road case to stage
00:20:03.836 --> 00:20:07.256
so that the artist isn't
walking through 40,000 people.
00:20:07.256 --> 00:20:12.929
So as soon as we arrived at
the stage, she is distressed.
00:20:12.929 --> 00:20:16.015
She is upset. She's yelling.
She's saying,
00:20:16.015 --> 00:20:17.892
"It smells like pot!
It smells like pot!
00:20:17.892 --> 00:20:21.604
"I can't‐‐I can't breathe this!
I cannot breathe this!
00:20:21.604 --> 00:20:24.565
I'm going to fail a drug test!
I won't see my boys!"
00:20:24.565 --> 00:20:30.321
♪ ♪
00:20:30.321 --> 00:20:35.576
And she bolted.
I took off after her.
00:20:35.576 --> 00:20:39.956
She was running trying to get
back to her dressing room.
00:20:41.082 --> 00:20:45.211
INTERVIEWER: Was she crying?
‐ Oh, she was very much crying.
00:20:45.211 --> 00:20:46.879
She was crying.
She was screaming,
00:20:46.879 --> 00:20:48.381
and then I'm crying!
00:20:48.381 --> 00:20:50.967
You know, like, I was crying
in this moment as well.
00:20:50.967 --> 00:20:56.347
I just‐‐I grabbed her and said,
"We are not making it.
00:20:56.347 --> 00:20:58.307
We have to go back
under stage."
00:20:58.307 --> 00:21:02.061
The level of how she was scared
00:21:02.061 --> 00:21:05.856
really opened my eyes.
00:21:05.856 --> 00:21:07.650
We get back under the stage,
00:21:07.650 --> 00:21:12.071
and I am asked to leave
the quick change,
00:21:12.071 --> 00:21:13.948
and they go in there with her.
00:21:15.783 --> 00:21:19.120
Whatever happens,
she's crying,
00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:22.123
and show goes on.
00:21:23.040 --> 00:21:25.418
♪ ♪
00:21:25.418 --> 00:21:28.587
To have that stress,and she pulls it off?
00:21:28.587 --> 00:21:32.758
‐ ♪ There's only two types
of people in the world ♪
00:21:32.758 --> 00:21:35.803
♪ Ones that entertain
and the ones that observe ♪
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TISH: It just has to betoo much at some point.
00:21:38.723 --> 00:21:40.099
[applause]
00:21:46.439 --> 00:21:48.232
‐ The roller‐coaster life
of Britney Spears in 2008
00:21:48.232 --> 00:21:50.151
can be summed up
by two Rolling Stone
00:21:50.151 --> 00:21:52.737
magazine covers.
On February 21st, it was,
00:21:52.737 --> 00:21:56.282
"Britney Spears:Inside an American Tragedy,"
00:21:56.282 --> 00:21:58.909
and on the latest issue,"Yes She Can!
00:21:58.909 --> 00:22:00.494
Britney Returns."
00:22:00.494 --> 00:22:02.246
You have interviewed her
several times in the past,
00:22:02.246 --> 00:22:04.165
but this time
a little bit different.
00:22:04.165 --> 00:22:05.666
How so?
00:22:05.666 --> 00:22:07.501
WRITER: The primary differencewas just that it was
00:22:07.501 --> 00:22:09.462
a very heavilymanaged process.
00:22:09.462 --> 00:22:11.797
You know, it was largely to dowith this conservatorship
00:22:11.797 --> 00:22:15.593
that her father has had overher since early this year.
00:22:15.593 --> 00:22:16.886
INTERVIEWER: Yeah, her dad nowhas
00:22:16.886 --> 00:22:18.763
tremendous controlover her.
00:22:18.763 --> 00:22:21.098
You weren't allowedto ask specific questions.
00:22:21.098 --> 00:22:23.642
[somber music]
00:22:23.642 --> 00:22:25.686
ALEX: Britney wanted
to get an iPhone.
00:22:25.686 --> 00:22:28.939
She saw her assistants
have iPhones,
00:22:28.939 --> 00:22:33.778
dancers team, Edan even,
and she wanted an iPhone,
00:22:33.778 --> 00:22:36.781
and that was a big deal.
00:22:36.781 --> 00:22:41.077
Everybody was worried,
00:22:41.077 --> 00:22:46.582
and then Edan approached me
and asked me,
00:22:46.582 --> 00:22:50.044
"Is there any monitoring
services for an iPhone
00:22:50.044 --> 00:22:51.796
that you are aware of?"
00:22:52.588 --> 00:22:53.964
And I'm like,
"What do you mean?"
00:22:53.964 --> 00:22:55.591
He's like,
"Well, parental controls.
00:22:55.591 --> 00:22:56.842
"You know,
is there any way
00:22:56.842 --> 00:22:59.261
to put parental controls
on an iPhone?"
00:22:59.261 --> 00:23:01.597
And that's when Edanexplained to me
00:23:01.597 --> 00:23:05.226
that Britney's communication
is monitored
00:23:05.226 --> 00:23:08.521
for her own, you know,
security and protection.
00:23:09.522 --> 00:23:12.691
I asked Edan about
the legality of that, actually.
00:23:12.691 --> 00:23:15.444
"Are you allowed to do that?"
00:23:15.444 --> 00:23:19.782
And he said, "Yes.
The court is aware of this.
00:23:19.782 --> 00:23:22.660
Britney's lawyer
is aware of this.
00:23:22.660 --> 00:23:25.454
This is for her safety.
It's for her protection."
00:23:27.123 --> 00:23:31.460
And then Robin came upwith the idea of,
00:23:31.460 --> 00:23:35.131
"Why don't we just take
an iPad,
00:23:35.131 --> 00:23:38.384
"sign in with an iCloud
on there,
00:23:38.384 --> 00:23:42.012
"the same iCloud that Britney
would use on her phone,
00:23:42.012 --> 00:23:46.767
"and that would mirror
all activity?
00:23:46.767 --> 00:23:50.479
"You would be able
to see all messages,
00:23:50.479 --> 00:23:53.899
"all FaceTime calls, Notes,
00:23:53.899 --> 00:23:57.653
browser history, photographs."
00:23:58.696 --> 00:24:02.366
Edan would bring metext messages of conversations
00:24:02.366 --> 00:24:03.826
that Britney would have,
00:24:03.826 --> 00:24:08.289
and he would ask me
to encrypt those messages
00:24:08.289 --> 00:24:12.209
and give it to him so he could
pass it on to Robin and Jamie.
00:24:12.209 --> 00:24:14.378
[uneasy music]
00:24:14.378 --> 00:24:17.465
As time went on, they became
very comfortable with me.
00:24:17.465 --> 00:24:21.802
Um, they‐‐they openly talked
about monitoring her.
00:24:22.136 --> 00:24:24.054
Their‐‐their reason
for the monitoring was,
00:24:24.054 --> 00:24:25.723
you know,
looking for bad influence,
00:24:25.723 --> 00:24:27.308
looking for potential,
00:24:27.308 --> 00:24:30.436
you know, illegal activity
that might happen,
00:24:30.436 --> 00:24:37.109
but they would also monitor
conversations with her friends,
00:24:37.109 --> 00:24:42.531
with her mom, with her lawyer,
Sam Ingham.
00:24:44.074 --> 00:24:46.660
If there's anybody
that should be off‐limits,
00:24:46.660 --> 00:24:49.622
it should be
Britney's lawyer,
00:24:49.622 --> 00:24:51.499
and, you know,I still felt that,
00:24:51.499 --> 00:24:54.376
"I'm not understandingsomething,
00:24:54.376 --> 00:24:59.548
so just do your job, and maybe
one day you'll understand."
00:25:00.174 --> 00:25:03.177
[soft music]
00:25:03.177 --> 00:25:10.142
♪ ♪
00:25:11.977 --> 00:25:13.437
‐ Some days she would have
a phone,
00:25:13.437 --> 00:25:15.898
and other days
she would not have a phone,
00:25:15.898 --> 00:25:21.278
uh, and it would be a fight
between her and her dad
00:25:21.278 --> 00:25:24.114
that I would hear outside
the dressing room
00:25:24.114 --> 00:25:25.282
and inside the dressing room.
00:25:25.282 --> 00:25:28.077
"I want my phone back.
I need‐‐
00:25:28.077 --> 00:25:29.620
can I have my phone back?"
00:25:29.620 --> 00:25:32.581
And he'd say,
"No, you got it taken away."
00:25:32.581 --> 00:25:33.582
JAMIE: Give me that phone.
00:25:33.582 --> 00:25:34.959
I'll hold that damn phone
for you.
00:25:34.959 --> 00:25:38.420
BRITNEY: No, Daddy!
‐ [sighs]
00:25:38.420 --> 00:25:40.381
‐ Her phone, her own phone
00:25:40.381 --> 00:25:41.799
and her own private
conversations
00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.219
were used
so often to control her.
00:25:45.219 --> 00:25:49.598
I know for a fact that Jamie
would confront Britney and say,
00:25:49.598 --> 00:25:52.434
"Hey, why did you
text this person?"
00:25:52.434 --> 00:25:55.938
Just because you're in control
doesn't give you the right
00:25:55.938 --> 00:26:00.359
to treat people like property.
It didn't feel
00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.653
like she was being treated
like a human being.
00:26:12.788 --> 00:26:14.206
BRITNEY: If I wasn't underthe restraints that I'm under
00:26:14.206 --> 00:26:15.833
right now with all the lawyersand doctors
00:26:15.833 --> 00:26:18.127
and people analyzing meevery day,
00:26:18.127 --> 00:26:19.587
like, if that wasn't there,
00:26:19.587 --> 00:26:23.924
I'd feel so liberated
and feel like myself.
00:26:23.924 --> 00:26:26.885
[desolate music]
00:26:26.885 --> 00:26:29.430
♪ ♪
00:26:29.430 --> 00:26:30.514
I'm angry.
00:26:30.514 --> 00:26:31.932
INTERVIEWER: You're angry?
00:26:31.932 --> 00:26:33.142
‐ I'm very angry.
00:26:33.142 --> 00:26:34.560
INTERVIEWER: You don't seem
very angry.
00:26:34.560 --> 00:26:36.061
‐ I'm horribly angry.
00:26:36.061 --> 00:26:37.896
INTERVIEWER: Horribly angry?
00:26:37.896 --> 00:26:39.398
CREW MEMBER:
As she smiles saying it.
00:26:39.398 --> 00:26:41.567
INTERVIEWER: As you have
a huge grin on your face.
00:26:41.567 --> 00:26:43.193
‐ No, I'm smiling right now
00:26:43.193 --> 00:26:45.696
because I think it's funny
that y'all are laughing.
00:26:45.696 --> 00:26:51.577
♪ ♪
00:26:51.577 --> 00:26:54.163
When I tell them the way
I feel, it's like they hear me,
00:26:54.163 --> 00:26:56.957
but they're
really not listening.
00:26:56.957 --> 00:26:58.542
They're hearing
what they want to hear.
00:26:58.542 --> 00:27:00.794
They're not really listening
to what I'm telling them.
00:27:00.794 --> 00:27:04.131
It's, like, it's bad.
00:27:04.131 --> 00:27:10.054
♪ ♪
00:27:10.054 --> 00:27:11.597
‐ The first rule of
the conservatorship was,
00:27:11.597 --> 00:27:13.223
you don't talk about
the conservatorship.
00:27:13.223 --> 00:27:16.060
It was just
a hard and fast rule
00:27:16.060 --> 00:27:17.519
that we don't talk about it.
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:20.397
We don't ask questions.
We don't voice opinions
00:27:20.397 --> 00:27:24.526
about it internally
or outside of the organization.
00:27:25.069 --> 00:27:27.946
She was keptvery, very isolated.
00:27:27.946 --> 00:27:31.158
Her manager, when I firstcame on, said,
00:27:31.158 --> 00:27:33.243
"Be careful,don't get too close.
00:27:33.243 --> 00:27:35.329
People have a wayof disappearing."
00:27:35.329 --> 00:27:37.414
At the time,I assumed that the concern is
00:27:37.414 --> 00:27:38.749
that someone would come in
00:27:38.749 --> 00:27:41.251
and bring her drugsor other contraband,
00:27:41.251 --> 00:27:43.712
but I think if you
were actually concerned
00:27:43.712 --> 00:27:45.547
with someone's mental health,
00:27:45.547 --> 00:27:47.883
you don't take their friends
away from them,
00:27:47.883 --> 00:27:51.637
and if their friends
are going away,
00:27:51.637 --> 00:27:53.722
you at least give them
a chance to say goodbye.
00:27:55.474 --> 00:27:56.975
‐ Hi, my name is Felicia,
00:27:56.975 --> 00:27:58.727
and I'm Britney's
personal assistant,
00:27:58.727 --> 00:28:01.438
and my main role
in this whole big production
00:28:01.438 --> 00:28:04.733
is, I keep her safe,
comfortable and happy.
00:28:04.733 --> 00:28:07.611
[pizzicato music]
00:28:07.611 --> 00:28:10.697
I went into my jobwith Britney in my 30s.
00:28:10.697 --> 00:28:14.493
I knew who I was.
I knew what I was about,
00:28:14.493 --> 00:28:19.123
and I didn't want to do
anything more than assist her,
00:28:19.123 --> 00:28:21.708
and it was the Circus tourthat I came back for,
00:28:21.708 --> 00:28:25.712
and I went back intomy regular mode of assistant.
00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:28.382
Then it slowly became
00:28:28.382 --> 00:28:32.010
where I wasn't allowedto be by her side
00:28:32.010 --> 00:28:34.096
and wasn't allowed
to have a conversation
00:28:34.096 --> 00:28:38.392
without having other people
present, which was very odd.
00:28:38.392 --> 00:28:43.647
On one leg of the Circus tour,
Britney's dad calls,
00:28:43.647 --> 00:28:44.898
and he said,
"Hey, Fefe,
00:28:44.898 --> 00:28:47.317
you need to come
to a urgent meeting."
00:28:47.317 --> 00:28:49.486
The meeting was to tell me
00:28:49.486 --> 00:28:52.614
that I was not to go
on the European tour.
00:28:52.614 --> 00:28:53.991
"Britney said she doesn't
want you there.
00:28:53.991 --> 00:28:55.868
She said she never wanted you
on this tour."
00:28:55.868 --> 00:28:59.455
Like, "Okay," and he said,
"She said if she ever sees you,
00:28:59.455 --> 00:29:01.206
she won't go on stage."
00:29:01.206 --> 00:29:04.209
And I said, "You know what?
I'm going on tour.
00:29:04.209 --> 00:29:07.087
My rooms are booked.
I just won't see her."
00:29:08.464 --> 00:29:11.216
And he's like,
"Well, you make sure of that."
00:29:11.216 --> 00:29:13.594
Maybe she was mad at me,
00:29:13.594 --> 00:29:15.721
but I knew
I needed to be there.
00:29:15.721 --> 00:29:17.890
If nothing else,
I needed to be there
00:29:17.890 --> 00:29:20.809
so she'd know I was there
and that I believed in her,
00:29:20.809 --> 00:29:23.228
and that the concerts
were amazing,
00:29:23.228 --> 00:29:25.314
and that what she was doing
was amazing,
00:29:25.314 --> 00:29:27.316
so at the last show,
00:29:27.316 --> 00:29:29.568
the very last show
of that European run,
00:29:29.568 --> 00:29:31.862
as I go to leave the office,
00:29:31.862 --> 00:29:35.449
she comes in with security
in the far door,
00:29:35.449 --> 00:29:38.452
and it's almost like
the very air
00:29:38.452 --> 00:29:40.120
was sucked out of the hall
00:29:40.120 --> 00:29:42.539
because everybody knew
I wasn't supposed to be there.
00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:45.542
And so the door opened.
I turned around.
00:29:45.542 --> 00:29:51.048
I made eye contact with her.
She took a full running leap
00:29:51.048 --> 00:29:55.260
and ran all the way down
the hall and leapt onto me,
00:29:55.260 --> 00:29:56.637
and she went, "Fe!"
00:29:56.637 --> 00:29:59.097
and wrapped her little legs
and her arms around,
00:29:59.097 --> 00:30:00.933
"Where have you been?"
00:30:00.933 --> 00:30:02.434
And it was at that point
that I thought,
00:30:02.434 --> 00:30:04.520
"No, wait a minute.
00:30:04.520 --> 00:30:07.523
Were they trying to turn the
two of us against each other?"
00:30:07.523 --> 00:30:10.359
♪ ♪
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:13.111
I don't know what parameters
they were working
00:30:13.111 --> 00:30:17.491
under or with,
but I certainly realized now
00:30:17.491 --> 00:30:19.868
that I being part
of the support system
00:30:19.868 --> 00:30:21.870
was not welcome,
00:30:21.870 --> 00:30:24.831
and I feel like at some point,
00:30:24.831 --> 00:30:28.752
the reason that
I was moved away
00:30:28.752 --> 00:30:33.090
from being part of the support
system is that I simply said,
00:30:33.090 --> 00:30:36.802
"If I see something
with my eyes, I will tell it,"
00:30:36.802 --> 00:30:40.180
and if I had seen something
or if Brit had said
00:30:40.180 --> 00:30:43.183
or reached out in any way
and said, "Fe, I'm scared,"
00:30:43.183 --> 00:30:45.852
like she has vocally
said since,
00:30:45.852 --> 00:30:47.771
I wouldn't have allowed that.
00:30:49.273 --> 00:30:51.733
So the furtherthey could push me back,
00:30:51.733 --> 00:30:53.569
the smallerthe support system got.
00:30:54.528 --> 00:30:56.905
I will never forget
one of the statements
00:30:56.905 --> 00:30:58.365
that Robin made to me.
00:30:58.365 --> 00:31:00.576
She goes, "Well, you just don't
know who she is anymore."
00:31:02.077 --> 00:31:03.537
Maybe I didn't know the person
00:31:03.537 --> 00:31:07.165
that they were tryingto make her be,
00:31:07.165 --> 00:31:09.001
but I knew the person
that she was,
00:31:09.001 --> 00:31:10.294
and I knew the heart.
00:31:10.294 --> 00:31:12.879
Your heart stays the same
no matter what.
00:31:12.879 --> 00:31:16.133
So my heart and her heartare very old friends.
00:31:28.520 --> 00:31:30.105
REPORTER: It was an all‐Britney Spears bonanza
00:31:30.105 --> 00:31:31.481
on Glee.
00:31:31.481 --> 00:31:34.693
‐ ♪ Hey Britney
We can dance all night long ♪
00:31:34.693 --> 00:31:37.070
‐ You're really hot.
‐ You're sweet.
00:31:37.070 --> 00:31:38.947
‐ And your breath smells
really good.
00:31:38.947 --> 00:31:40.324
‐ So does yours.
00:31:40.324 --> 00:31:42.659
And you know why?
Because this is a fantasy.
00:31:42.659 --> 00:31:43.869
‐ Wow.
00:31:43.869 --> 00:31:45.203
REPORTER: And get this:we learned today
00:31:45.203 --> 00:31:46.705
that Britney's appearanceon the show
00:31:46.705 --> 00:31:50.792
brought in the highest ratingsever for Glee.
00:31:50.792 --> 00:31:53.629
LIZ: Britney is working a lotduring the conservatorship.
00:31:53.629 --> 00:31:56.173
‐ Simon, she has more talent
in her pinkie
00:31:56.173 --> 00:31:58.091
than you do in your‐‐
all of your contestants.
00:31:58.091 --> 00:32:00.135
REPORTER: Spears still making58 million a year.
00:32:00.135 --> 00:32:01.678
REPORTER: 58 million?What? How?
00:32:01.678 --> 00:32:04.431
REPORTER: Over 100 millionin album sales worldwide,
00:32:04.431 --> 00:32:06.642
the highest‐selling lineof celebrity fragrances
00:32:06.642 --> 00:32:08.268
on the market, includinga new one
00:32:08.268 --> 00:32:09.478
called Fantasy Twist.
00:32:09.478 --> 00:32:12.356
‐ ♪ Yeah ♪
00:32:12.356 --> 00:32:13.899
REPORTER:Pop superstar is in talks
00:32:13.899 --> 00:32:15.859
to headlineher own Las Vegas show.
00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:19.363
REPORTER: They're raking inaround $310,000 per show.
00:32:19.363 --> 00:32:21.114
They depositclose to $1 million
00:32:21.114 --> 00:32:23.408
in Brit's bank accountevery week.
00:32:23.408 --> 00:32:26.620
‐ Britney makes a lot of money
under the conservatorship.
00:32:26.620 --> 00:32:28.163
[crowd cheering]
00:32:28.163 --> 00:32:29.998
She has the Vegas residency
00:32:29.998 --> 00:32:32.334
which is one of the most
successful shows of all time.
00:32:32.334 --> 00:32:35.003
REPORTER: Britney Spears isthe queen of Sin City.
00:32:35.003 --> 00:32:36.505
The pop star currentlya headliner
00:32:36.505 --> 00:32:38.757
at Planet Hollywood‐‐LIZ: Also around that time,
00:32:38.757 --> 00:32:43.345
Jamie is approved to receive
1.5 percent of revenues
00:32:43.345 --> 00:32:45.514
tied to performancesand merchandise
00:32:45.514 --> 00:32:49.267
from Britney'sblockbuster Vegas show.
00:32:49.267 --> 00:32:51.228
REPORTER: Planet Hollywood notonly gave her a raise
00:32:51.228 --> 00:32:52.604
but increasedthe number of shows
00:32:52.604 --> 00:32:55.565
she'll be performingfrom 96 to 140.
00:32:55.565 --> 00:32:58.360
[delicate music]
00:32:58.360 --> 00:33:02.823
‐ The understanding was
that Britney had an allowance.
00:33:02.823 --> 00:33:07.994
She saw a pair of shoes
walking through the mall,
00:33:07.994 --> 00:33:10.080
coming into the gig,
00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:12.791
and she spotted them
and was like,
00:33:12.791 --> 00:33:16.753
"Hey, can, um, somebody
go get them for me?"
00:33:16.753 --> 00:33:19.631
And, of course, my ears perk up
when you hear, "Shoes."
00:33:19.631 --> 00:33:21.508
I'm thinking,
"Oh, this might be me,"
00:33:21.508 --> 00:33:24.469
and I said, "Well,
I'll go grab them for her.
00:33:24.469 --> 00:33:27.347
Just tell me which ones
they were," and they said,
00:33:27.347 --> 00:33:31.143
"No, she doesn't have any money
to be spending on Skechers."
00:33:31.143 --> 00:33:32.769
INTERVIEWER: Wait, she wanted
Skechers?
00:33:32.769 --> 00:33:34.312
‐ And she wanted
some Skechers.
00:33:34.312 --> 00:33:38.275
There was a Skechers,
a Skechers store.
00:33:38.275 --> 00:33:40.652
She spotted them,
and they were cute.
00:33:40.652 --> 00:33:44.322
And I told Britney,
"Hey, I'm‐‐
00:33:44.322 --> 00:33:48.702
"I'm putting these through
wardrobe expense, and we'll‐‐
00:33:48.702 --> 00:33:50.829
"we'll say that they didn't
work for stage.
00:33:50.829 --> 00:33:52.497
Take them home."
00:33:52.497 --> 00:33:55.041
And, um, that's what we did.
00:33:55.041 --> 00:33:58.253
♪ ♪
00:33:59.004 --> 00:34:02.007
[warbling electronic music]
00:34:02.507 --> 00:34:05.677
LIZ: In 2014, there'sa closed‐door court hearing
00:34:05.677 --> 00:34:08.597
in Britney's conservatorshipcase with the judge
00:34:08.597 --> 00:34:11.600
and the lawyers involved,
and we obtained a transcript
00:34:11.600 --> 00:34:14.144
of what actually was said
behind closed doors.
00:34:15.020 --> 00:34:17.481
A quirk of the conservatorshipsystem is that Britney
00:34:17.481 --> 00:34:19.733
is paying not only
for her own lawyer,
00:34:19.733 --> 00:34:22.569
she's paying for
her conservator's lawyers.
00:34:22.569 --> 00:34:24.488
Britney,for the entire 13 years
00:34:24.488 --> 00:34:25.697
of the conservatorship,
00:34:25.697 --> 00:34:27.032
had a court‐appointed lawyer,
00:34:27.032 --> 00:34:29.117
who she didn't choose,
named Sam Ingham.
00:34:29.117 --> 00:34:31.203
♪ ♪
00:34:31.203 --> 00:34:33.121
[reading quote]
00:34:47.677 --> 00:34:48.887
The judge says...
00:34:55.644 --> 00:34:56.895
Britney's lawyer says...
00:35:01.942 --> 00:35:03.777
The judge said that
she would consider
00:35:03.777 --> 00:35:05.153
ending the conservatorship
00:35:05.153 --> 00:35:07.364
if Britney established
a healthy relationship
00:35:07.364 --> 00:35:08.824
with a therapist
00:35:08.824 --> 00:35:11.827
and returned 1 year's worth
of clean drug tests,
00:35:11.827 --> 00:35:13.411
but the judge
would not guarantee it.
00:35:14.204 --> 00:35:18.875
Britney's lawyer also raised
the possibility of Britney
00:35:18.875 --> 00:35:21.211
removing Jamie
as her conservator.
00:35:22.295 --> 00:35:24.673
Jamie Spearshad serious alcohol issues
00:35:24.673 --> 00:35:26.216
when Britney was growing up,
00:35:26.216 --> 00:35:28.426
and he even enters rehaba few years
00:35:28.426 --> 00:35:30.262
before becomingher conservator.
00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:33.473
In this court transcript
in 2014,
00:35:33.473 --> 00:35:34.891
Britney's lawyer says
00:35:34.891 --> 00:35:37.227
that Britney
thinks he's still drinking.
00:35:37.227 --> 00:35:39.938
Lawyers representingthe conservatorship responded
00:35:39.938 --> 00:35:41.898
that Jamie had been taking
00:35:41.898 --> 00:35:44.442
regularly scheduledalcohol tests,
00:35:44.442 --> 00:35:48.113
but Britney wanted
a random test.
00:35:49.114 --> 00:35:50.615
The judge replied...
00:35:57.956 --> 00:36:00.667
Britney's lawyer told the court
that she anticipates
00:36:00.667 --> 00:36:02.878
that, as it has been done
before,
00:36:02.878 --> 00:36:05.589
the court will simply
sweep it under the carpet
00:36:05.589 --> 00:36:07.966
and ignore
any negative inferences
00:36:07.966 --> 00:36:10.260
with regard to Jamie,
00:36:10.260 --> 00:36:13.180
and then there's sort of
an aside from the judge,
00:36:13.180 --> 00:36:14.598
where she says,
00:36:14.598 --> 00:36:17.392
"One more question, related
and sort of related:
00:36:17.392 --> 00:36:19.644
how are her sales
in Las Vegas?"
00:36:19.644 --> 00:36:26.651
♪ ♪
00:36:31.072 --> 00:36:34.117
[soft music]
00:36:34.117 --> 00:36:38.371
♪ ♪
00:36:38.371 --> 00:36:40.916
ANNOUNCER: Britney offersa special VIP meet and greet
00:36:40.916 --> 00:36:42.918
for $2,500 after‐‐
00:36:42.918 --> 00:36:44.502
TISH: We would havemeet and greets.
00:36:44.502 --> 00:36:48.506
Meet and greets can be
very difficult.
00:36:48.506 --> 00:36:50.717
They just are.
00:36:50.717 --> 00:36:53.720
She might be really upset
at the moment
00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:56.723
or just got her phone
taken away,
00:36:56.723 --> 00:36:59.351
and then she needs to go
to a meet and greet
00:36:59.351 --> 00:37:03.897
and be super happy and joyful
00:37:03.897 --> 00:37:06.274
because these are peoplethat love and adore her,
00:37:06.274 --> 00:37:07.901
and she loves and adores them.
00:37:07.901 --> 00:37:11.321
REPORTER: The news today is,it'll cost you 2,500 big ones
00:37:11.321 --> 00:37:13.573
for a meet and greetin Vegas with Brit.
00:37:13.573 --> 00:37:15.575
It comes completewith front‐row seats
00:37:15.575 --> 00:37:18.495
and backstage access‐‐
‐ I witnessed management
00:37:18.495 --> 00:37:22.582
telling her if she did not
do the meet and greets,
00:37:22.582 --> 00:37:26.044
that it would be
a huge loss of money.
00:37:26.795 --> 00:37:28.964
"Will you agree to 20 people?""Yes."
00:37:28.964 --> 00:37:31.007
"Okay, we're gonna do20 people."
00:37:32.384 --> 00:37:34.302
20 people turns into 30 people.
00:37:35.804 --> 00:37:39.015
20 people turns
into 40 sometimes.
00:37:39.015 --> 00:37:43.228
♪ ♪
00:37:43.228 --> 00:37:46.940
Whenever she'd
bring up something
00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:51.569
that was disturbing her,
she'd always be dismissed,
00:37:51.569 --> 00:37:54.698
always be dismissed like,
"Why are you even asking?
00:37:54.698 --> 00:37:56.783
"Because you don't even have
control over your life.
00:37:56.783 --> 00:38:00.245
"So you don't need to ask
these questions
00:38:00.245 --> 00:38:01.913
because it's none
of your business."
00:38:03.790 --> 00:38:07.794
So she gave in.She had to.
00:38:07.794 --> 00:38:09.379
She had to.
00:38:09.379 --> 00:38:12.674
There's no, like, "Well, why
didn't she just tell them no?"
00:38:12.674 --> 00:38:13.883
There isn't a no.
00:38:13.883 --> 00:38:20.682
♪ ♪
00:38:21.808 --> 00:38:26.062
Here's a note that Britney
wrote me, and I kept.
00:38:26.062 --> 00:38:28.398
She gave it to me
in her dressing room.
00:38:28.398 --> 00:38:30.066
Um, "Just a little message
to let you know
00:38:30.066 --> 00:38:31.818
"I appreciate
all your kind words
00:38:31.818 --> 00:38:35.196
"and patience with me
behind the stage.
00:38:35.196 --> 00:38:36.448
"You truly are an angel,
00:38:36.448 --> 00:38:38.366
"and just knowing
in the back of my mind
00:38:38.366 --> 00:38:41.369
"that there are genuine people
like you in this cruel world,
00:38:41.369 --> 00:38:43.788
"it helps me
to sleep better at night.
00:38:43.788 --> 00:38:45.790
Sending my love."
00:38:45.790 --> 00:38:48.626
So that's pretty‐‐
pretty deep for me
00:38:48.626 --> 00:38:51.546
and knowing
that she wrote it for me.
00:38:52.380 --> 00:38:57.177
There were definitely times
that I felt trapped there,
00:38:57.177 --> 00:39:00.972
because I‐‐I'm damned if I do,
and I'm damned if I don't.
00:39:00.972 --> 00:39:02.515
Like, she's‐‐
00:39:02.515 --> 00:39:06.811
She's going to be
00:39:06.811 --> 00:39:10.982
the person that this affects,
00:39:10.982 --> 00:39:13.818
that it's going to hurther more
00:39:13.818 --> 00:39:16.654
if I'm not there,and there's so‐‐
00:39:16.654 --> 00:39:21.910
there's so many of us
that were in the background
00:39:21.910 --> 00:39:23.286
that did see the truth.
00:39:23.286 --> 00:39:25.830
This isn't‐‐
this isn't a he said,
00:39:25.830 --> 00:39:27.290
she said, or what we might‐‐
00:39:27.290 --> 00:39:30.710
these are things that we‐‐
we saw with our own eyes
00:39:30.710 --> 00:39:33.004
and heard with our own ears.
00:39:33.004 --> 00:39:35.256
Uh, it's hard on me to know
00:39:35.256 --> 00:39:37.342
that I could be a person
to help,
00:39:37.342 --> 00:39:39.386
but maybe that's what
I'm doing now.
00:39:50.063 --> 00:39:51.356
‐ Iggy, when Britney
was promoting "Pretty Girls,"
00:39:51.356 --> 00:39:52.941
she said she came to
your house for salad.
00:39:52.941 --> 00:39:55.860
‐ Yeah, nothing is, you know,
nothing weird.
00:39:55.860 --> 00:39:57.362
ANDY COHEN: Nothing weird?
00:39:57.362 --> 00:40:00.365
[soft music]
00:40:00.365 --> 00:40:02.117
♪ ♪
00:40:02.117 --> 00:40:06.121
‐ They came and, like, checked
my place to make sure I, like,
00:40:06.121 --> 00:40:08.498
wasn't trying to, like,
stash anything weird
00:40:08.498 --> 00:40:10.333
and, like,
give it to her or something.
00:40:10.333 --> 00:40:13.294
‐ Britney had advance people
come scope out the place?
00:40:13.294 --> 00:40:14.838
‐ Yeah, yeah.
ANDY: Wow.
00:40:14.838 --> 00:40:17.424
‐ Yeah, to make sure I wasn't,
like, a bad influence or‐‐
00:40:17.424 --> 00:40:18.675
‐ Wow!
‐ I was like,
00:40:18.675 --> 00:40:19.926
"I promise I'm
not gonna do anything bad."
00:40:19.926 --> 00:40:21.386
ANDY: Right.
‐ "I just want to have lunch."
00:40:21.386 --> 00:40:23.388
ANDY: Right, right.IGGY: Uh, yeah.
00:40:25.390 --> 00:40:28.893
ALEX: Working in Black Box,
I saw so much.
00:40:28.893 --> 00:40:32.605
I'm not a law expert,
so I can't speak to legality
00:40:32.605 --> 00:40:38.570
of everything, but ethically,
it was just one big mess.
00:40:39.946 --> 00:40:43.241
Edan had
a audio recording device
00:40:43.241 --> 00:40:44.659
put into Britney's bedroom.
00:40:44.659 --> 00:40:47.662
[electronic music]
00:40:47.662 --> 00:40:54.669
♪ ♪
00:41:05.305 --> 00:41:07.599
Edan and one of the agents
working with him
00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:09.100
came into my office
00:41:09.100 --> 00:41:12.228
and handed me
the audio recording device
00:41:12.228 --> 00:41:15.148
and a USB drive
and asked me to wipe it.
00:41:16.316 --> 00:41:20.361
I had them tell me
what was on it.
00:41:20.361 --> 00:41:22.197
They seemed very nervous
00:41:22.197 --> 00:41:25.158
and said that it was
extremely sensitive,
00:41:25.158 --> 00:41:27.285
that nobody can ever know
about this,
00:41:27.285 --> 00:41:32.790
and that's why I need
to delete everything on it
00:41:32.790 --> 00:41:35.710
so there's no record of it.
00:41:35.710 --> 00:41:38.463
That raised
so many red flags with me,
00:41:38.463 --> 00:41:40.423
and I did not want
to be complicit
00:41:40.423 --> 00:41:42.592
in whatever they
were involved in.
00:41:42.592 --> 00:41:47.639
So I kept a copy because I
don't want to delete evidence.
00:41:48.348 --> 00:41:50.058
And I don't think
it's a coincidence
00:41:50.058 --> 00:41:51.935
that it was done days
00:41:51.935 --> 00:41:54.604
before she was due to meet
with a court investigator.
00:41:54.604 --> 00:41:57.607
[uneasy music]
00:41:57.607 --> 00:42:04.614
♪ ♪
00:42:09.661 --> 00:42:11.454
‐ "Interview with
the conservatee,
00:42:11.454 --> 00:42:15.124
"Britney Jean Spears.
On September 7th, 2016,
00:42:15.124 --> 00:42:17.502
"an announced visit was made
to Britney's residence,
00:42:17.502 --> 00:42:19.087
"where she was interviewed
in person
00:42:19.087 --> 00:42:23.424
and in a private setting."
So in September 2016...
00:42:23.424 --> 00:42:25.301
[upbeat music]
00:42:25.301 --> 00:42:28.805
Right after Britney releasesher ninth studio album
00:42:28.805 --> 00:42:32.100
and in the midst of her verysuccessful Las Vegas show...
00:42:32.100 --> 00:42:33.935
‐ How you doing, Vegas?
00:42:35.395 --> 00:42:37.730
‐ A court investigator
comes to Britney's house
00:42:37.730 --> 00:42:41.276
to conduct a periodic review
for the judge.
00:42:41.276 --> 00:42:44.904
♪ ♪
00:42:44.904 --> 00:42:47.949
The investigator wrotein her report...
00:42:54.664 --> 00:42:58.001
"She said people are making
a ton of money off of her,
00:42:58.001 --> 00:43:00.670
"and she said she is smart
and knows what is going on.
00:43:08.219 --> 00:43:09.929
"The court investigator
was told
00:43:09.929 --> 00:43:11.556
"that Britney had an allowance,
00:43:11.556 --> 00:43:14.183
"and that her credit card
was held by her security team
00:43:14.183 --> 00:43:16.519
"or assistant
and used at their discretion.
00:43:22.317 --> 00:43:24.235
"She said
she cannot drive alone.
00:43:24.235 --> 00:43:26.779
"She cannot befriend people,
especially men,
00:43:26.779 --> 00:43:28.531
unless they are approved
by her father."
00:43:29.657 --> 00:43:34.370
‐ There was an obsession
with the men in Britney's life.
00:43:35.204 --> 00:43:37.290
They would have
to sign contracts.
00:43:37.290 --> 00:43:38.541
They would have to sign NDAs.
00:43:38.541 --> 00:43:40.918
‐ "Then they are followed
by private investigators
00:43:40.918 --> 00:43:44.130
to make sure their behaviors
are acceptable to her father."
00:43:44.130 --> 00:43:46.799
‐ I heard that your dad
kind of set you up
00:43:46.799 --> 00:43:49.135
with your current boyfriend.
Is that true?
00:43:49.469 --> 00:43:52.013
‐ No. It's not true.
00:43:52.013 --> 00:43:55.099
‐ The reports of your dad doing
a background check on David.
00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:56.434
Is that not true?
00:43:56.434 --> 00:43:58.102
‐ That is true.
‐ That is true?
00:43:58.102 --> 00:43:59.604
‐ Yeah.
‐ That's crazy!
00:43:59.604 --> 00:44:01.272
‐ Yeah!
HOST: Does that embarrass you?
00:44:01.272 --> 00:44:03.566
‐ My dad's a little crazy
like that. He's‐‐
00:44:04.859 --> 00:44:06.402
HOST: Does he‐‐does he own
a gun?
00:44:06.402 --> 00:44:10.865
‐ Um, he does own a gun.
‐ Okay, note to self there.
00:44:10.865 --> 00:44:13.576
‐ "She said she feels
her father is obsessed with her
00:44:13.576 --> 00:44:16.829
"in the sense he wants to
control everything about her.
00:44:16.829 --> 00:44:20.416
"'Any mistakes resulted
in very harsh consequences,'
00:44:20.416 --> 00:44:23.252
"Britney said, and that
the conservatorship
00:44:23.252 --> 00:44:25.129
"'comes with a lot of fear.'
00:44:26.172 --> 00:44:27.840
"Britney told
the court investigator
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.801
"she is not happy
being conserved,
00:44:29.801 --> 00:44:33.054
"and she said she wants it
terminated as soon as possible,
00:44:33.054 --> 00:44:35.056
"and she wants direction
from the court
00:44:35.056 --> 00:44:39.394
on what she would need to do."
The report concludes...
00:44:39.686 --> 00:44:42.605
"It appears the conservatorshave done an excellent job
00:44:42.605 --> 00:44:44.107
of protecting Britney,
00:44:44.107 --> 00:44:46.776
and it is apparent they havemade commendable efforts
00:44:46.776 --> 00:44:49.445
"to help her reach thepositive places in her life
00:44:49.445 --> 00:44:51.447
"she has to this date.
00:44:51.989 --> 00:44:54.951
"It appears effort should
be made to provide Britney
00:44:54.951 --> 00:44:56.369
a pathway to independence
00:44:56.369 --> 00:44:59.414
and the eventual termination
of the conservatorship.
00:45:00.498 --> 00:45:02.875
"In the interim, it is
important for all entities
00:45:02.875 --> 00:45:05.253
"associated with
the conservatorship to do
00:45:05.253 --> 00:45:07.714
"all possible
to prevent the conservatorship
00:45:07.714 --> 00:45:10.299
from giving Britney
feelings of subjugation."
00:45:22.687 --> 00:45:23.855
‐ I heard that
after the show‐‐
00:45:23.855 --> 00:45:25.898
which‐‐I believe
you're doing 96 shows?
00:45:25.898 --> 00:45:27.108
‐ Yes.
MARIO LOPEZ: After this run,
00:45:27.108 --> 00:45:28.276
I should say.
96 shows in 2 years
00:45:28.276 --> 00:45:29.652
is just amazing, a lot of work.
00:45:29.652 --> 00:45:31.279
That obviously, you'd want
to take a long break,
00:45:31.279 --> 00:45:32.947
but you might even
possibly retire.
00:45:32.947 --> 00:45:34.282
Is that true?
00:45:34.282 --> 00:45:37.285
[soft music]
00:45:37.285 --> 00:45:38.870
♪ ♪
00:45:38.870 --> 00:45:40.329
‐ I might.
Who knows?
00:45:40.329 --> 00:45:41.956
I may have two more kids and‐‐
00:45:41.956 --> 00:45:43.207
‐ Really?
BRITNEY: I don't know. Yeah.
00:45:44.625 --> 00:45:48.129
I said, "How you feeling?"
[crowd cheers]
00:45:48.129 --> 00:45:50.798
[upbeat electronic music]
00:45:50.798 --> 00:45:52.759
♪ ♪
00:45:52.759 --> 00:45:55.595
TISH: We're in Las Vegas,doing the Piece of Me show,
00:45:55.595 --> 00:45:58.014
and they were publicly saying,
00:45:58.014 --> 00:46:00.183
"Come get your last tickets
of the Piece of Me.
00:46:00.183 --> 00:46:01.809
We're done. We're done.
We're done."
00:46:01.809 --> 00:46:05.730
‐ I think it was, like,
119 degrees today outside.
00:46:05.730 --> 00:46:07.940
I literally almost fainted,
dear God.
00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:11.778
TISH: We were all exhausted.
‐ Thank you.
00:46:11.778 --> 00:46:14.197
‐ You know, when you're
running a marathon,
00:46:14.197 --> 00:46:18.576
and you're getting to the end,
you're ready to relax.
00:46:18.576 --> 00:46:19.869
You're ready to take a break.
00:46:19.869 --> 00:46:21.496
‐ Thank you.
00:46:21.496 --> 00:46:23.122
TISH: The crewand everyone thought,
00:46:23.122 --> 00:46:25.166
"Okay, we're done with this."
00:46:27.710 --> 00:46:31.839
Then... they tossed
00:46:31.839 --> 00:46:37.470
a 3‐week continuation
of the Piece of Me on the road.
00:46:37.470 --> 00:46:39.263
[cheers and applause]
00:46:39.263 --> 00:46:41.015
‐ It's going to be really,
really hot up here.
00:46:41.015 --> 00:46:42.350
I'm warning you.
00:46:42.350 --> 00:46:44.769
I'm about to pass out,
and I'm sick.
00:46:44.769 --> 00:46:47.855
So I have actually
102 fever right now.
00:46:49.065 --> 00:46:52.109
♪ ♪
00:46:52.109 --> 00:46:54.320
‐ And we were going
to go to Europe.
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:57.824
♪ ♪
00:46:57.824 --> 00:46:59.867
This is a large tour.
00:46:59.867 --> 00:47:02.870
[somber music]
00:47:02.870 --> 00:47:04.747
♪ ♪
00:47:04.747 --> 00:47:10.253
After that, we had heard that
there was bidding wars in Vegas
00:47:10.253 --> 00:47:13.297
for a new residency
for Britney.
00:47:14.507 --> 00:47:17.677
So now the Piece of Meis finishing,
00:47:17.677 --> 00:47:19.971
and she is goingstraight into promotions
00:47:19.971 --> 00:47:24.767
for Domination already.
There was no break.
00:47:26.143 --> 00:47:27.645
BRITNEY:When I came off that tour,
00:47:27.645 --> 00:47:30.106
a new show in Las Vegaswas supposed to take place.
00:47:32.024 --> 00:47:34.402
I started rehearsing early,but it was hard
00:47:34.402 --> 00:47:36.320
because I'd been doing Vegasfor 4 years,
00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.531
and I neededa break in between.
00:47:38.531 --> 00:47:40.533
But, no, I was told,"This is the timeline,
00:47:40.533 --> 00:47:41.993
andthis is how it's going to go."
00:47:41.993 --> 00:47:43.744
Five, six, seven, eight.
00:47:43.744 --> 00:47:45.371
I take everythingI do very seriously.
00:47:45.371 --> 00:47:48.165
There's tons of videowith me at rehearsals.
00:47:48.165 --> 00:47:50.376
I wasn't good.I was great.
00:47:51.085 --> 00:47:52.837
♪ ♪
00:47:52.837 --> 00:47:54.714
I was really,really hard on myself,
00:47:54.714 --> 00:47:57.633
and it was too much.I couldn't take it anymore.
00:47:58.843 --> 00:48:02.889
EMCEE: Ladies and gentlemen,
the new queen of Vegas.
00:48:02.889 --> 00:48:07.518
BRITNEY: I remember tellingmy assistant, "You know what?
00:48:07.518 --> 00:48:09.103
"I feel weird if I say no.
00:48:09.103 --> 00:48:10.563
"I feel likethey're gonna come back
00:48:10.563 --> 00:48:12.356
and be mean to meor punish me or something."
00:48:12.356 --> 00:48:13.774
REPORTER: Britney canceled her
00:48:13.774 --> 00:48:16.068
highly anticipatedVegas show, Domination.
00:48:16.068 --> 00:48:17.987
REPORTER: Her show, Britney:Domination, was supposed
00:48:17.987 --> 00:48:20.364
to begin February 13that the Park Theater.
00:48:20.364 --> 00:48:22.533
BRITNEY: Three days later,after I said no to Vegas,
00:48:22.533 --> 00:48:24.035
my therapist sat medown in a room
00:48:24.035 --> 00:48:25.953
and said he hada million phone calls
00:48:25.953 --> 00:48:28.372
about how I was notcooperating under house rules
00:48:28.372 --> 00:48:30.458
and I haven't beentaking my medication.
00:48:30.458 --> 00:48:31.876
All this was a false‐‐
00:48:33.002 --> 00:48:35.838
He immediately, the next day,put me on lithium.
00:48:36.797 --> 00:48:38.758
I got a phone callfrom my dad saying,
00:48:38.758 --> 00:48:40.551
"They're planning to send youto a small home
00:48:40.551 --> 00:48:43.054
"in Beverly Hillsto do a small rehab program
00:48:43.054 --> 00:48:44.722
that we're going tomake up for you."
00:48:44.722 --> 00:48:46.057
I cried on the phonefor an hour,
00:48:46.057 --> 00:48:48.517
and he lovedevery minute of it.
00:48:48.517 --> 00:48:51.520
The control he had oversomeone as powerful as me,
00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:53.981
as he loved the controlto hurt his own daughter.
00:48:53.981 --> 00:48:57.443
100,000%, he loved it.
00:48:57.443 --> 00:48:59.612
I packed my bagsand went to that place‐‐
00:49:02.073 --> 00:49:06.619
‐ It was January of 2019.
00:49:06.619 --> 00:49:09.664
Edan, you know,
reached out to me
00:49:09.664 --> 00:49:15.336
and asked if the iPad
was still in the safe.
00:49:16.420 --> 00:49:18.714
I said, "Of course, you know,
where else would it be?"
00:49:18.714 --> 00:49:20.633
I was out of town at that time,
00:49:20.633 --> 00:49:24.804
and then I come back
in February from my vacation,
00:49:24.804 --> 00:49:30.059
and Britney is gone.
00:49:30.893 --> 00:49:32.186
REPORTER: Britney Spears
00:49:32.186 --> 00:49:33.729
checked intoa mental health clinic
00:49:33.729 --> 00:49:36.148
last week,according to to TMZ.
00:49:36.148 --> 00:49:37.400
REPORTER:Their source saying Britney
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:38.859
just needed to focuson herself
00:49:38.859 --> 00:49:40.987
as she cares for her father,Jamie,
00:49:40.987 --> 00:49:43.990
after his life‐threateningcolon rupture‐‐
00:49:43.990 --> 00:49:47.910
‐ So it really seems as
if this facility stay in 2019
00:49:47.910 --> 00:49:51.122
is a really big turning point
in the conservatorship
00:49:51.122 --> 00:49:52.707
for almost everyone involved.
00:49:52.707 --> 00:49:54.750
‐ She did not want to be there.
00:49:55.793 --> 00:49:59.005
I heard this
from multiple people,
00:49:59.005 --> 00:50:02.550
including Robin
and Jamie themselves
00:50:02.550 --> 00:50:04.927
when they would talk
on the phone to Edan.
00:50:05.511 --> 00:50:07.722
I overheard
multiple conversations
00:50:07.722 --> 00:50:10.725
where they knew Britney
didn't want to be there.
00:50:10.725 --> 00:50:13.102
BRITNEY: I had no privacy doorfor my room.
00:50:13.102 --> 00:50:14.437
They all livedin the house with me,
00:50:14.437 --> 00:50:16.814
the nurses, the 24/7 security.
00:50:16.814 --> 00:50:18.649
I never had a sayin my schedule.
00:50:18.649 --> 00:50:20.443
They always told meI had to do this.
00:50:20.443 --> 00:50:23.487
And, ma'am, I will tell you,sitting in a chair
00:50:23.487 --> 00:50:27.116
10 hours a day,7 days a week, it ain't fun,
00:50:27.116 --> 00:50:29.702
and especially when you can'twalk out the front door.
00:50:32.121 --> 00:50:34.123
LIZ: Under Californiaconservatorship,
00:50:34.123 --> 00:50:37.585
a conservator is not allowed
to force a conservatee
00:50:37.585 --> 00:50:41.047
into a mental health treatment
facility against their will.
00:50:42.339 --> 00:50:45.926
It's really murky who sentBritney to the facility,
00:50:45.926 --> 00:50:48.387
why she was sent there.
00:50:48.387 --> 00:50:49.680
There's a lot
of finger‐pointing
00:50:49.680 --> 00:50:52.099
going on among conservators
00:50:52.099 --> 00:50:54.477
and different people involved,
saying, you know,
00:50:54.477 --> 00:50:56.270
"They sent her here."
"No, they did,"
00:50:56.270 --> 00:50:58.564
and, you know, they even claim
that Britney, herself,
00:50:58.564 --> 00:51:01.484
signed papers saying
that she wanted to go in.
00:51:01.484 --> 00:51:05.571
We obtained text messages
that Britney had been sending
00:51:05.571 --> 00:51:09.533
when she was in the facility
in early spring 2019,
00:51:09.533 --> 00:51:13.162
where she says,
"I am here involuntarily.
00:51:13.162 --> 00:51:15.331
I feel as if I cannot leave."
00:51:17.333 --> 00:51:21.378
She texts a friend, "My lawyer
doesn't even work for me.
00:51:21.378 --> 00:51:24.215
Security is at the door 24/7."
00:51:24.215 --> 00:51:26.509
‐ They were monitoring
everything,
00:51:26.509 --> 00:51:32.765
conversations with her friends,
with her mom.
00:51:32.765 --> 00:51:38.229
She reached out to an attorney
asking if he can sneak in.
00:51:38.229 --> 00:51:39.688
‐ And this new lawyer
is saying,
00:51:39.688 --> 00:51:42.858
"Okay, can I come meet you?"
And Britney says,
00:51:42.858 --> 00:51:44.401
"I don't think they're going
to let you come in
00:51:44.401 --> 00:51:46.695
"and meet me if they know
that you're a lawyer.
00:51:46.695 --> 00:51:49.115
I don't think they're gonna
let me hire a new lawyer,"
00:51:49.115 --> 00:51:53.577
and she suggests that this
lawyer pretend to be a plumber
00:51:53.577 --> 00:51:56.413
and, you know, hide the fact
that they were a lawyer.
00:51:56.413 --> 00:51:58.791
And Britney acknowledges
in the text
00:51:58.791 --> 00:52:00.835
that she's stuck
in this catch‐22.
00:52:00.835 --> 00:52:05.297
She says, "How am I supposed to
know whether I want to hire you
00:52:05.297 --> 00:52:08.217
if I'm not even able
to meet with you first?"
00:52:08.217 --> 00:52:13.013
And Jamie and security
had monitored all of this.
00:52:13.013 --> 00:52:16.142
It seems as if one
of the rationales, perhaps,
00:52:16.142 --> 00:52:19.728
for trying to have
such close oversight of Britney
00:52:19.728 --> 00:52:23.566
is trying to protect her
from bad influence,
00:52:23.566 --> 00:52:26.443
but that's not what I'm seeing
in these text messages.
00:52:26.443 --> 00:52:28.904
It seems as if she's trying
to get help.
00:52:30.156 --> 00:52:35.327
‐ They openly talked about
everything that was going on,
00:52:35.327 --> 00:52:38.706
and I still felt that I'm not
understanding something,
00:52:38.706 --> 00:52:40.166
that I don't know
the full story,
00:52:40.166 --> 00:52:41.542
that there's so much
more to it,
00:52:41.542 --> 00:52:44.003
um, and it was easy
to detach yourself emotionally
00:52:44.003 --> 00:52:46.172
from‐‐from everything
that was going on.
00:52:49.592 --> 00:52:56.348
And I think this is when
I snapped back into reality.
00:53:06.650 --> 00:53:08.068
‐ ♪ Got a clue
what you're doing ♪
00:53:08.068 --> 00:53:09.528
REPORTER: Fansof Britney Spears are worried
00:53:09.528 --> 00:53:11.780
about her well‐beingfollowing bombshell claims
00:53:11.780 --> 00:53:14.700
that she is beingheld against her will
00:53:14.700 --> 00:53:16.285
in a mental health facility.
00:53:16.285 --> 00:53:18.454
‐ What do we want?
CROWD: Free Britney.
00:53:18.454 --> 00:53:20.164
‐ When do we want it?
CROWD: Now.
00:53:20.164 --> 00:53:21.957
LIZ: So in spring 2019,
00:53:21.957 --> 00:53:24.043
the Free Britney movementreally starts to catch on.
00:53:24.043 --> 00:53:27.171
‐ We're here not as fans
of Britney Spears the pop star.
00:53:27.171 --> 00:53:29.548
We're here to advocate,
I mean, truly for human rights.
00:53:29.548 --> 00:53:31.050
REPORTER: Social mediais erupting
00:53:31.050 --> 00:53:32.968
in Britney Spears hysteria,
00:53:32.968 --> 00:53:35.346
launchinga Free Britney movement.
00:53:35.346 --> 00:53:36.680
‐ Hashtag‐‐
‐ Free Britney.
00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:38.641
CROWD: End
conservatorship abuse.
00:53:38.641 --> 00:53:40.184
PROTESTER: We think that,
you know,
00:53:40.184 --> 00:53:43.312
the conservatorship
she's been under seems unjust.
00:53:43.312 --> 00:53:46.523
‐ Do you believe Britney Spears
is being held against her will?
00:53:46.523 --> 00:53:47.942
AUDIENCE: Yes!
00:53:47.942 --> 00:53:51.195
‐ Edan initially was
very worried
00:53:51.195 --> 00:53:52.571
about the Free Britney movement
00:53:52.571 --> 00:53:57.534
because it was something
out of their control.
00:53:57.534 --> 00:53:59.703
It was something
that was shaping on its own.
00:53:59.703 --> 00:54:02.581
‐ She was out and about
yesterday on Easter Sunday.
00:54:02.581 --> 00:54:05.793
That is herwith her boyfriend, Sam,
00:54:05.793 --> 00:54:08.504
at the Montage Hotelin Beverly Hills.
00:54:08.504 --> 00:54:10.297
REPORTER: Hi, Britney,
how you feeling?
00:54:10.839 --> 00:54:14.009
How you feeling, Britney?
How's your dad doing?
00:54:14.009 --> 00:54:15.219
ALEX: It was orchestrated
00:54:15.219 --> 00:54:16.720
that she would comeout of the hotel
00:54:16.720 --> 00:54:17.888
to show the public that,
00:54:17.888 --> 00:54:19.390
"You have nothingto worry about.
00:54:19.390 --> 00:54:21.684
"Look, Britney
is walking around.
00:54:21.684 --> 00:54:23.269
She's with her boyfriend."
00:54:23.269 --> 00:54:24.728
HOST: These photosare a big deal
00:54:24.728 --> 00:54:27.022
because, obviously, here
she is out and about.
00:54:27.022 --> 00:54:29.733
Clearly, she's not a prisonerat this facility.
00:54:29.733 --> 00:54:31.402
HOST: She's not.
00:54:31.402 --> 00:54:34.113
REPORTER: Britney Spears backhome with her family tonight
00:54:34.113 --> 00:54:36.365
after checking outof a mental health facility.
00:54:36.365 --> 00:54:38.284
‐ When she was releasedfrom the facility,
00:54:38.284 --> 00:54:44.373
security was asked
to prepare a iPhone for her
00:54:44.373 --> 00:54:47.668
that would only be allowed
to make phone calls,
00:54:47.668 --> 00:54:50.129
no text messaging,
no Internet access.
00:54:50.129 --> 00:54:51.839
CROWD: Hey, hey, ho, ho.
00:54:51.839 --> 00:54:54.383
The conservatorship
has got to go.
00:54:54.383 --> 00:54:55.759
ALEX:The Free Britney movement
00:54:55.759 --> 00:55:01.932
was heavily investigated
in its early days.
00:55:03.142 --> 00:55:07.479
Undercover investigatorswere placed within the crowds
00:55:07.479 --> 00:55:14.069
to talk to fans, to ID them,to document who they were.
00:55:15.237 --> 00:55:17.281
It was all under
the umbrella of,
00:55:17.281 --> 00:55:19.074
"This is
for Britney's protection."
00:55:19.074 --> 00:55:20.784
REPORTER:Britney Spears' father Jamie
00:55:20.784 --> 00:55:23.203
speaking out againstthe viral campaign,
00:55:23.203 --> 00:55:25.080
"All theseconspiracy theorists
00:55:25.080 --> 00:55:26.540
"don't know anything.
00:55:26.540 --> 00:55:28.375
"It's up to the courtof California
00:55:28.375 --> 00:55:30.169
to decide what's bestfor my daughter."
00:55:33.297 --> 00:55:36.300
[crowd chanting]
00:55:36.300 --> 00:55:43.265
♪ ♪
00:55:43.390 --> 00:55:45.392
PROTESTER:End conservatorship.
00:55:45.392 --> 00:55:48.520
CROWD: Endconservatorship abuse.
00:55:48.520 --> 00:55:50.230
‐ Free Britney!
00:55:50.230 --> 00:55:53.650
LIZ: In a court filing,Britney's lawyer said,
00:55:53.650 --> 00:55:56.695
"Britney herself is vehementlyopposed to this effort
00:55:56.695 --> 00:55:59.073
"by her fatherto keep her legal struggle
00:55:59.073 --> 00:56:02.034
"hidden away in the closetas a family secret.
00:56:02.576 --> 00:56:05.287
"In this case,it is not an exaggeration
00:56:05.287 --> 00:56:07.206
to say thatthe whole world is watching."
00:56:07.206 --> 00:56:09.541
PROTESTER: What do we want?
CROWD: Free Britney!
00:56:09.541 --> 00:56:11.460
PROTESTER: When do we want it?
CROWD: Now!
00:56:11.460 --> 00:56:12.795
‐ Hey, guys, it's Megan.
00:56:12.795 --> 00:56:14.546
The judge has not made
any decisions yet,
00:56:14.546 --> 00:56:16.340
but we did want
to give you a quick update‐‐
00:56:16.340 --> 00:56:19.176
Britney has told Ingham
on multiple occasions
00:56:19.176 --> 00:56:22.429
that she's scared of her father
and that she refuses to work
00:56:22.429 --> 00:56:25.432
until he is no longer
in control of her career.
00:56:25.432 --> 00:56:32.439
♪ ♪
00:56:35.275 --> 00:56:37.945
VIVIAN: Britney's assetswere clearly being mismanaged,
00:56:37.945 --> 00:56:40.197
and she was being taken
advantage of financially
00:56:40.197 --> 00:56:42.032
by some of those around her.
00:56:42.032 --> 00:56:45.494
‐ How did Jamie turn
Britney's finances around
00:56:45.494 --> 00:56:47.121
so dramatically?
00:56:47.121 --> 00:56:49.957
‐ He has collaborated with her.
He‐‐
00:56:49.957 --> 00:56:52.876
When she is up for performing,
she has performed.
00:56:52.876 --> 00:56:54.586
When she wants to record
an album,
00:56:54.586 --> 00:56:56.130
she can record an album,
00:56:56.130 --> 00:56:58.423
and when she wants to live
her life the way she wants,
00:56:58.423 --> 00:56:59.883
like a normal person,
00:56:59.883 --> 00:57:02.386
he has collaborated with her
to do that, as well.
00:57:02.386 --> 00:57:06.140
♪ ♪
00:57:06.140 --> 00:57:09.726
‐ Britney knows that her daddy
loves her,
00:57:09.726 --> 00:57:14.273
and she knows that
she can call on him anytime.
00:57:14.273 --> 00:57:16.150
CROWD: Free Britney now!
00:57:16.150 --> 00:57:17.818
Free Britney now!
00:57:17.818 --> 00:57:20.988
Free Britney now!
Free Britney now!
00:57:20.988 --> 00:57:23.323
Free Britney now!
00:57:23.323 --> 00:57:24.658
REPORTER:
She's calling in, I guess.
00:57:24.658 --> 00:57:26.785
PROTESTER: Yeah?
00:57:26.785 --> 00:57:28.036
JUDGE: Good afternoon,Ms. Spears.
00:57:28.036 --> 00:57:29.913
I believe you'reon the telephone.
00:57:30.455 --> 00:57:32.082
BRITNEY: Hi, good afternoon.
00:57:32.082 --> 00:57:34.001
[crowd cheering]
00:57:34.001 --> 00:57:36.044
JUDGE: I'm happy to hearfrom you, Ms. Spears,
00:57:36.044 --> 00:57:39.006
so feel freeto address me at this point.
00:57:39.798 --> 00:57:41.049
BRITNEY:I have this written down.
00:57:41.049 --> 00:57:42.801
I have a lot to say,so bear with me.
00:57:42.801 --> 00:57:44.344
‐ Oh, God.
BRITNEY: Ma'am, I didn't know
00:57:44.344 --> 00:57:45.846
I could petitionthe conservatorship
00:57:45.846 --> 00:57:47.931
to end it.I'm sorry for my ignorance,
00:57:47.931 --> 00:57:49.808
but I honestlydidn't know that.
00:57:49.808 --> 00:57:53.270
‐ It was the complete opposite
of what, you know,
00:57:53.270 --> 00:57:55.439
we've always
been told working there.
00:57:56.982 --> 00:58:01.612
It was that she didn't want
to be in the conservatorship,
00:58:01.612 --> 00:58:04.698
and that she felt like
she was abused.
00:58:04.698 --> 00:58:06.116
BRITNEY: I want to be ableto get married
00:58:06.116 --> 00:58:07.451
and have a baby.
00:58:07.451 --> 00:58:11.288
I have a IUD inside of myselfright now
00:58:11.288 --> 00:58:15.167
so I don't get pregnant.I wanted to take the IUD out
00:58:15.167 --> 00:58:17.377
so I could start tryingto have another baby,
00:58:17.377 --> 00:58:21.215
but this so‐called teamwon't let me go to the doctor
00:58:21.215 --> 00:58:23.467
to take it outbecause they don't want me
00:58:23.467 --> 00:58:25.552
to have children,any more children.
00:58:25.552 --> 00:58:28.347
Um, so, basically,this conservatorship‐‐
00:58:28.347 --> 00:58:31.016
ALEX:
I heard Britney's testimony,
00:58:31.016 --> 00:58:34.394
and I think that was
the final indicator
00:58:34.394 --> 00:58:38.440
that I wanted to come forward
with what I know.
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:41.109
[tranquil electronic music]
00:58:41.109 --> 00:58:45.864
I think these emails I saved,
because of how scary they were,
00:58:45.864 --> 00:58:48.158
and you don't get a lot of this
in writing ever.
00:58:48.158 --> 00:58:51.036
Edan forwarded me
an email thread
00:58:51.036 --> 00:58:56.416
in which Sam Ingham emailed
Edan and the legal team.
00:59:11.431 --> 00:59:15.310
And so the response to that is,
"Sam, Jamie confirms...
00:59:19.940 --> 00:59:24.194
And so when this email
came across my desk,
00:59:24.194 --> 00:59:26.321
I was‐‐I was very confused.
00:59:26.321 --> 00:59:29.574
♪ ♪
00:59:29.574 --> 00:59:31.243
I know that thisis the right thing.
00:59:31.243 --> 00:59:35.747
I know that this iswhat I should do,
00:59:35.747 --> 00:59:40.252
but I don't know what's gonna
happen after this comes out.
00:59:43.088 --> 00:59:48.927
When I was leaving Black Box,
my filter went away, you know?
00:59:48.927 --> 00:59:51.263
I was very open about,
00:59:51.263 --> 00:59:53.890
"I disagree
how you run the business.
00:59:53.890 --> 00:59:55.726
I disagree
how you are ethically."
00:59:56.351 --> 00:59:58.770
He's like, "Well, we shouldreally talk about that."
00:59:58.770 --> 01:00:01.440
He calls me into his office,
and, you know,
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:07.529
he takes the gun in his holster
with his clip out
01:00:07.529 --> 01:00:11.533
and puts it on the table
and starts with,
01:00:11.533 --> 01:00:14.119
"So you don't like the way
I run my business?"
01:00:15.787 --> 01:00:20.042
I mean, it's not a threat,
but it's a threat.
01:00:33.013 --> 01:00:36.016
[soft music]
01:00:36.016 --> 01:00:39.644
♪ ♪
01:00:39.644 --> 01:00:42.356
CROWD: Let Britney choose!
01:00:42.356 --> 01:00:45.233
Let Britney choose!
Let Britney choose!
01:00:45.233 --> 01:00:47.194
Let Britney choose!
01:00:49.863 --> 01:00:51.073
[crowd cheers]
01:00:51.073 --> 01:00:52.949
PROTESTER: Are they getting
updates?
01:00:52.949 --> 01:00:56.286
What, what?
What? What?
01:00:56.286 --> 01:00:58.872
‐ She gets her own lawyer!
She gets her own lawyer!
01:00:58.872 --> 01:01:00.374
She gets her own lawyer!
She's now free to choose
01:01:00.374 --> 01:01:01.708
her own lawyer!
01:01:01.708 --> 01:01:03.585
PROTESTER: Britney gets
to choose her own lawyer!
01:01:03.585 --> 01:01:05.837
[crowd cheers]
01:01:05.837 --> 01:01:07.381
‐ Matthew Rosengart,
01:01:07.381 --> 01:01:10.425
a high‐powered Hollywoodattorney now representing her.
01:01:10.425 --> 01:01:12.803
LIZ: It seemslike a small victory,
01:01:12.803 --> 01:01:14.554
but it wasa really big victory
01:01:14.554 --> 01:01:17.682
because for the entire 13 years
of the conservatorship,
01:01:17.682 --> 01:01:20.394
she had a court‐appointed
lawyer who she didn't choose.
01:01:20.394 --> 01:01:23.688
‐ One thing that everybody
has lost sight of
01:01:23.688 --> 01:01:25.273
in all of the controversy,
01:01:25.273 --> 01:01:28.151
all of the litigation,
and all of the drama is,
01:01:28.151 --> 01:01:31.113
what is in the best interest
of Britney Spears?
01:01:31.113 --> 01:01:34.074
My firm and I are going to be
taking a top‐to‐bottom look
01:01:34.074 --> 01:01:37.077
at what's happened here
over the past decade.
01:01:37.077 --> 01:01:39.955
‐ Yes! Everyone did that!
01:01:39.955 --> 01:01:41.581
LIZ: Britney's new lawyer
01:01:41.581 --> 01:01:43.542
almost immediately files
to remove Jamie.
01:01:43.542 --> 01:01:45.836
‐ Since the cat is
out of the bag,
01:01:45.836 --> 01:01:47.462
literally out of the bag,
01:01:47.462 --> 01:01:51.174
and you guys know my situation,
I do want to let you guys know,
01:01:51.174 --> 01:01:54.428
things are way better
than what I ever anticipated.
01:01:54.428 --> 01:01:57.389
[discordant music]
01:01:57.389 --> 01:02:01.393
♪ ♪
01:02:01.393 --> 01:02:03.728
HOST: There isan enormous development
01:02:03.728 --> 01:02:06.398
in the Britney Spearsconservatorship case.
01:02:06.398 --> 01:02:11.027
Jamie Spears, we found out,
has agreed to step down.
01:02:11.027 --> 01:02:14.322
This is a monumental move.
01:02:15.657 --> 01:02:17.659
‐ But that's not actually
what the court filing said.
01:02:17.659 --> 01:02:20.662
The court filing said,
"Jamie has done nothing wrong.
01:02:20.662 --> 01:02:23.039
"The public does not know
Britney's addiction
01:02:23.039 --> 01:02:26.001
"and mental health issues,
and if they did,
01:02:26.001 --> 01:02:28.587
they would praise Jamie
for the job he has done."
01:02:28.587 --> 01:02:30.714
It said, "He is willingto step down
01:02:30.714 --> 01:02:32.174
when the time is right,"
01:02:32.174 --> 01:02:34.759
and appeared to be setting
some conditions for that.
01:02:35.385 --> 01:02:36.803
REPORTER: Jamie saysthe finances
01:02:36.803 --> 01:02:38.680
still need to be worked out,among other things.
01:02:38.680 --> 01:02:40.056
REPORTER:Court documents reveal
01:02:40.056 --> 01:02:42.559
that Spears is currently worth$60 million.
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.604
‐ I'm gonna be in Vegas
for two more years!
01:02:45.604 --> 01:02:47.481
REPORTER: That may soundlike a lot at first,
01:02:47.481 --> 01:02:49.983
but it's not when comparedto others in the industry.
01:02:54.696 --> 01:02:56.239
‐ The pop star
and her new attorney
01:02:56.239 --> 01:03:00.285
say her father is trying
to get a $2‐million payout
01:03:00.285 --> 01:03:02.120
before stepping downas her conservator.
01:03:02.120 --> 01:03:03.830
REPORTER:Matthew Rosengart insisting
01:03:03.830 --> 01:03:05.123
she will not be, quote...
01:03:07.125 --> 01:03:08.502
REPORTER:The former federal prosecutor
01:03:08.502 --> 01:03:09.794
also adding in a statement...
01:03:15.592 --> 01:03:17.010
HOST: They're goingto take his deposition,
01:03:17.010 --> 01:03:18.595
and he's going to
have to sit there,
01:03:18.595 --> 01:03:19.971
and he's going to go through
all of the things,
01:03:19.971 --> 01:03:22.140
you know,involving the business manager
01:03:22.140 --> 01:03:25.101
and salariesand things like that.
01:03:30.106 --> 01:03:31.816
REPORTER: We begin tonightwith breaking news.
01:03:31.816 --> 01:03:34.194
After 13 years,the conservatorship
01:03:34.194 --> 01:03:36.780
of singer Britney Spearsmay be about to end.
01:03:36.780 --> 01:03:39.866
Jamie Spears, her fatherand conservator of her estate,
01:03:39.866 --> 01:03:41.952
filed a petitionto end the conservatorship.
01:03:41.952 --> 01:03:45.163
‐ I feel like we're all like,
"Whoa, there's new news
01:03:45.163 --> 01:03:47.541
and a twist
and turn every single day."
01:03:47.541 --> 01:03:48.875
REPORTER: It is stunning.
01:03:48.875 --> 01:03:50.752
All of the thingshe said in this document
01:03:50.752 --> 01:03:54.256
that he filed with the court
are very, very different,
01:03:54.256 --> 01:03:58.635
in fact, opposite from what
he had been saying all along.
01:04:04.724 --> 01:04:06.268
REPORTER: So the big question:what's next?
01:04:06.268 --> 01:04:07.644
REPORTER:Does this mean that she will
01:04:07.644 --> 01:04:09.312
soon not have to dowhat her father says?
01:04:09.312 --> 01:04:11.064
REPORTER: How could this kindof, like, go off the rails?
01:04:11.064 --> 01:04:12.941
REPORTER:Only time will tell, right?
01:04:12.941 --> 01:04:15.110
LIZ:A lot of big questions remain.
01:04:15.110 --> 01:04:17.153
Will Jamie be removed?
01:04:17.153 --> 01:04:20.615
Will the conservatorshipbe terminated entirely,
01:04:20.615 --> 01:04:23.159
and will there ever bea full examination
01:04:23.159 --> 01:04:24.995
of the last 13 years?
01:04:26.997 --> 01:04:30.292
‐ That's the one thing that
I don't know still to this day.
01:04:30.292 --> 01:04:32.502
Is the court aware
of any of this shit?
01:04:32.502 --> 01:04:34.671
Like, how‐‐how they've
been monitoring her?
01:04:34.671 --> 01:04:36.256
Do they actually
know about that?
01:04:36.256 --> 01:04:39.134
Like, I'm super curious,
and Edan telling me
01:04:39.134 --> 01:04:43.054
that Sam Ingham
knew that Jamie and Robin
01:04:43.054 --> 01:04:46.266
were reading all her
text messages, is that true?
01:04:46.266 --> 01:04:52.439
And if they did know about
this, how was that allowed?
01:04:57.652 --> 01:05:01.364
‐ Britney's case has raised
a lot of questions and scrutiny
01:05:01.364 --> 01:05:03.950
on the conservatorship system
at large.
01:05:04.951 --> 01:05:07.871
It really makes you wonder.If all of this can happen
01:05:07.871 --> 01:05:11.041
to one of the mostfamous people on this planet,
01:05:11.041 --> 01:05:13.877
what does that mean
for the many people
01:05:13.877 --> 01:05:17.088
under conservatorships
who are very vulnerable?
01:05:17.797 --> 01:05:20.383
♪ ♪
01:05:20.383 --> 01:05:22.177
BRITNEY: I'm not sure how youmake your decisions, ma'am,
01:05:22.177 --> 01:05:23.595
but this isthe only chance for me
01:05:23.595 --> 01:05:26.097
to talk to for you a while.I need your help,
01:05:26.097 --> 01:05:28.600
so if you can just kind oflet me know
01:05:28.600 --> 01:05:29.768
where your head is.
01:05:29.768 --> 01:05:31.353
I'm scared of people.
01:05:31.353 --> 01:05:33.438
I don't trust peoplewith what I've been through.
01:05:34.105 --> 01:05:37.233
‐ I think the thing that stands
out to me most from Brit
01:05:37.233 --> 01:05:40.945
speaking out in court
is that she was frightened.
01:05:40.945 --> 01:05:44.574
That's the thing that I want
to say bothers me the most
01:05:44.574 --> 01:05:48.078
because these are people that
are supposed to protect her.
01:05:48.078 --> 01:05:50.205
How many times
has she said this before,
01:05:50.205 --> 01:05:52.499
and why has nothing changed?
01:05:53.625 --> 01:05:56.294
I think she simplywants to be heard,
01:05:56.294 --> 01:05:57.796
but, my goodness,
01:05:57.796 --> 01:05:59.631
how many times
does she have to say it?
01:05:59.631 --> 01:06:01.508
How loud does shehave to scream it?
01:06:01.508 --> 01:06:03.677
BRITNEY: I wish I could staywith you on the phone forever
01:06:03.677 --> 01:06:05.804
because when I get offthe phone with you,
01:06:05.804 --> 01:06:08.348
I hear all these nos,"No, no, no,"
01:06:08.348 --> 01:06:10.767
and, then all of a sudden,I feel ganged up on,
01:06:10.767 --> 01:06:12.227
and I feel bullied,
01:06:12.227 --> 01:06:14.479
and I feel left out and alone,
01:06:14.479 --> 01:06:16.898
and I'm tiredof feeling alone.
01:06:19.567 --> 01:06:21.111
And now, we can sit hereall day and say,
01:06:21.111 --> 01:06:23.154
"Oh, conservatorshipsare here to help people,"
01:06:23.154 --> 01:06:25.865
but, ma'am, there'sa thousand conservatorships
01:06:25.865 --> 01:06:27.534
that are abusive as well.
01:06:29.411 --> 01:06:30.745
FELICIA: You know,I don't have any way
01:06:30.745 --> 01:06:33.498
of getting in touchwith her at this point.
01:06:33.498 --> 01:06:36.209
All the numbers
that I have are now changed.
01:06:36.209 --> 01:06:38.461
‐ I cannot call her up.
01:06:38.461 --> 01:06:41.506
I know she memorizes numbers,
01:06:41.506 --> 01:06:43.883
so as an end‐of‐tour gift,
01:06:43.883 --> 01:06:45.593
I bought her
a Tiffany's necklace
01:06:45.593 --> 01:06:48.513
'cause I know
that she likes Tiffany's,
01:06:48.513 --> 01:06:53.059
and I had my number engraved
on it in case she needed me.
01:06:53.685 --> 01:06:55.270
INTERVIEWER: If you were
talking to her right now,
01:06:55.270 --> 01:06:56.438
what would you say to her?
01:06:57.313 --> 01:07:01.568
‐ Well, yeah, if we actually
got to see each other
01:07:01.568 --> 01:07:05.655
and see Britney again is that,
you have a lot of support,
01:07:05.655 --> 01:07:09.117
a lot of good support
behind you,
01:07:09.117 --> 01:07:10.952
and we will be here for you.
01:07:12.287 --> 01:07:13.955
INTERVIEWER:
If you could talk to Britney,
01:07:13.955 --> 01:07:15.540
what would you
want to her to know?
01:07:15.540 --> 01:07:18.793
Like, if she's watching this,
what would you say?
01:07:19.586 --> 01:07:20.879
‐ Okay.
01:07:20.879 --> 01:07:24.007
And, Brit, first off,
I would make you giggle,
01:07:24.007 --> 01:07:26.426
and second off,
I want you to remember
01:07:26.426 --> 01:07:28.845
all the funny things
and all the fun times.
01:07:28.845 --> 01:07:30.764
I want you to remember
how strong you are,
01:07:30.764 --> 01:07:34.976
how talented you are,
how silly you are,
01:07:34.976 --> 01:07:37.312
how goofy you are,
01:07:37.312 --> 01:07:42.734
and that that heart of yours
is gigantic and that how‐‐
01:07:42.734 --> 01:07:46.196
I mean, my goodness, I told you
every day how much I loved you.
01:07:46.196 --> 01:07:50.074
If I had one penny
for every fan
01:07:50.074 --> 01:07:52.118
that's just reached out to me
01:07:52.118 --> 01:07:55.497
to send their love to you, boy,
would I be a rich woman.
01:07:57.123 --> 01:08:00.001
Hang in there.
Your voice is coming back.
01:08:00.001 --> 01:08:03.296
You are louder and prouder
and more powerful
01:08:03.296 --> 01:08:05.924
than I've seen you
in a really long time,
01:08:05.924 --> 01:08:07.717
and I love you,
01:08:07.717 --> 01:08:11.930
and I will support
you no matter what.
01:08:11.930 --> 01:08:13.264
And I wasn't going to cry
01:08:13.264 --> 01:08:14.724
because you know
I don't like to cry.
01:08:14.724 --> 01:08:16.726
It makes my nose big and red.
I love you.
01:08:20.855 --> 01:08:22.690
BRITNEY:I deserve to have a life.
01:08:22.690 --> 01:08:26.861
I deserve to have the samerights as anybody does,
01:08:26.861 --> 01:08:28.655
and that's all I wantedto say to you,
01:08:28.655 --> 01:08:31.115
and thank you so much forletting me speak to you today.
01:08:31.741 --> 01:08:33.535
Thank you.
01:08:40.124 --> 01:08:43.127
[soft music]
01:08:43.127 --> 01:08:50.134
♪ ♪
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