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Spears, 00:00:42.384 --> 00:00:44.887 conservator for the estate of Britney Jean Spears. 00:00:44.887 --> 00:00:46.722 CROWD: Free Britney now! PROTESTER: Shh, shh, shh. 00:00:46.722 --> 00:00:48.182 She's calling in, I guess. 00:00:48.182 --> 00:00:50.184 PROTESTER: Yeah. She's going to do it. This is it. 00:00:50.184 --> 00:00:53.437 PROTESTER: This is it. ‐ I‐I was able to connect. 00:00:53.437 --> 00:00:54.688 How about you? 00:00:54.688 --> 00:00:55.981 JUDGE: Good afternoon, Ms. Spears. 00:00:55.981 --> 00:00:57.316 I believe you are on the telephone? 00:00:57.316 --> 00:00:58.734 PROTESTER: She's doing it. PROTESTER: I heard it. 00:00:58.734 --> 00:00:59.735 PROTESTER: What's happening here? 00:00:59.735 --> 00:01:02.112 PROTESTER: She's doing it. 00:01:02.112 --> 00:01:04.656 BRITNEY: Hi, good afternoon. CROWD: Whoo! 00:01:04.656 --> 00:01:06.867 PROTESTER: Yeah! 00:01:06.867 --> 00:01:08.077 JUDGE: Did any of the counsel have 00:01:08.077 --> 00:01:09.286 anything they wanted to say 00:01:09.286 --> 00:01:10.788 before we hear from Ms. Spears? 00:01:10.788 --> 00:01:12.498 SPEAKER: Your Honor, this is Ms. Wright. 00:01:12.498 --> 00:01:17.044 I did want to ask that we please seal the transcript 00:01:17.044 --> 00:01:18.545 and clear the courtroom 00:01:18.545 --> 00:01:20.798 so we can preserve those medical rights. 00:01:20.798 --> 00:01:22.132 I think it's really important then‐‐ 00:01:22.132 --> 00:01:23.258 BRITNEY: I think they've done a good job 00:01:23.258 --> 00:01:24.676 at exploiting my life 00:01:24.676 --> 00:01:26.470 in the way that they've done my life, 00:01:26.470 --> 00:01:28.555 so I feel like it‐‐it should be an open court hearing, 00:01:28.555 --> 00:01:29.807 and they should, um, listen 00:01:29.807 --> 00:01:32.017 and, um, hear what I have to say. 00:01:32.017 --> 00:01:33.769 [protesters cheering] 00:01:33.769 --> 00:01:35.020 ‐ Come on, Britney! 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:36.396 BRITNEY: I will be honest with you. 00:01:36.396 --> 00:01:38.273 I haven't been back to court in a long time 00:01:38.273 --> 00:01:40.567 because I don't think I was heard on any level 00:01:40.567 --> 00:01:43.278 when I came to court the last time, 00:01:43.278 --> 00:01:46.406 and that's why I'm telling you this again two years later, 00:01:46.406 --> 00:01:48.784 after I've lied and told the whole world I'm okay 00:01:48.784 --> 00:01:49.827 and I'm happy. 00:01:49.827 --> 00:01:52.746 It's a lie. 00:01:52.746 --> 00:01:55.541 I'm not happy. I can't sleep. 00:01:55.541 --> 00:01:58.836 I'm so angry, it's insane, and I'm depressed. 00:01:58.836 --> 00:02:00.045 I cry every day, 00:02:00.045 --> 00:02:01.255 and the reason I'm telling you this 00:02:01.255 --> 00:02:02.464 is because I don't think 00:02:02.464 --> 00:02:03.757 how the State of California can have 00:02:03.757 --> 00:02:05.551 all this written in the court documents 00:02:05.551 --> 00:02:08.512 from the time I showed up and do absolutely nothing. 00:02:08.512 --> 00:02:09.721 It's embarrassing 00:02:09.721 --> 00:02:11.890 and demoralizing what I've been through, 00:02:11.890 --> 00:02:14.893 and that's the main reason I've never said it openly. 00:02:15.310 --> 00:02:17.896 I honestly didn't think anyone would believe me. 00:02:18.856 --> 00:02:21.525 I just thought people would make fun of me or laugh at me 00:02:21.525 --> 00:02:23.777 and say, "She's lying. She's got everything. 00:02:23.777 --> 00:02:26.238 She's Britney Spears." I'm not lying. 00:02:27.906 --> 00:02:31.076 I also would like to be able to share my story with the world 00:02:31.076 --> 00:02:32.953 and what they did to me, 00:02:32.953 --> 00:02:34.663 instead of it being a hush‐hush secret 00:02:34.663 --> 00:02:36.081 to benefit all of them. 00:02:36.081 --> 00:02:38.500 Ma'am, my dad and anyone involved 00:02:38.500 --> 00:02:40.210 in this conservatorship and my management, 00:02:40.210 --> 00:02:41.920 who played a huge role in punishing me 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:44.464 when I said, "No, ma'am," they should be in jail. 00:02:44.464 --> 00:02:47.718 [crowd cheering] 00:02:54.892 --> 00:02:57.895 [serene music] 00:02:57.895 --> 00:03:04.902 ♪ ♪ 00:03:11.950 --> 00:03:13.660 ‐ [sighs] 00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:15.704 Like, I know this is the right thing to do, 00:03:15.704 --> 00:03:18.999 and I‐‐I obviously, you know, really want to do it, 00:03:18.999 --> 00:03:24.880 but... it's‐‐it's still scary. 00:03:26.798 --> 00:03:30.719 I don't know what's gonna happen after this comes out. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.807 ♪ ♪ 00:03:35.807 --> 00:03:40.562 TISH: I've never spoken about what we witnessed. 00:03:40.562 --> 00:03:42.564 You know, we signed those NDAs, 00:03:42.564 --> 00:03:45.442 and it has been hard to come forward 00:03:45.442 --> 00:03:50.155 knowing there are people in her management 00:03:50.155 --> 00:03:54.201 that could stop me from making a living, 00:03:54.201 --> 00:03:56.286 but this is important. 00:03:56.286 --> 00:04:00.832 This is a human life that's been tortured. 00:04:00.832 --> 00:04:07.839 ♪ ♪ 00:04:07.839 --> 00:04:09.716 DAN: I think I'm doing the right thing. 00:04:09.716 --> 00:04:13.345 I had to muster the courage to speak out 00:04:13.345 --> 00:04:16.974 because if not me, then who? 00:04:18.475 --> 00:04:20.686 FELICIA: When I read what Britney spoke about 00:04:20.686 --> 00:04:22.980 on her own in court, 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:26.525 I was extremely proud of her and the bravery 00:04:26.525 --> 00:04:28.777 that it took to take up for herself. 00:04:28.777 --> 00:04:31.655 Once Britney started telling her story, 00:04:31.655 --> 00:04:34.491 I felt like there were going to be many people 00:04:34.491 --> 00:04:40.205 and many memories that would need to be talked about 00:04:40.205 --> 00:04:42.291 to put all the puzzle pieces together 00:04:42.291 --> 00:04:44.835 and make the truth of the story come out. 00:04:49.047 --> 00:04:51.300 REPORTER: Spears, the former "Mickey Mouse Club" star 00:04:51.300 --> 00:04:53.885 who launched into the pop culture stratosphere 00:04:53.885 --> 00:04:57.014 as a teen had a fall from grace in her mid‐20s 00:04:57.014 --> 00:04:59.141 that's become synonymous with her success. 00:04:59.141 --> 00:05:00.475 ANNOUNCER: From Kentwood, Louisiana, 00:05:00.475 --> 00:05:03.061 here is 10‐year‐old Britney Spears! 00:05:03.061 --> 00:05:05.480 REPORTER: Her new CD is titled "Oops!... I Did It Again," 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:07.524 and she certainly has. 00:05:07.524 --> 00:05:09.067 HOST: Britney Spears! HOST: Britney Spears! 00:05:09.067 --> 00:05:10.360 ‐ Everyone say hi to Britney. 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:12.195 ‐ Hi! ‐ Hi, Britney! 00:05:13.030 --> 00:05:14.531 REPORTER: She's been out almost every night 00:05:14.531 --> 00:05:15.741 with her new party pals, 00:05:15.741 --> 00:05:17.159 Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. 00:05:17.159 --> 00:05:18.577 REPORTER: She began the year 00:05:18.577 --> 00:05:20.746 in style in Las Vegas, passing out at a club. 00:05:20.746 --> 00:05:22.372 ‐ Britney! Britney! ‐ Are you okay, Britney? 00:05:22.372 --> 00:05:24.124 ‐ My God. No, wait, I can't see, guys. 00:05:24.124 --> 00:05:27.377 STAFF: Get off the car! ‐ Stop it! Stop it! 00:05:27.377 --> 00:05:30.047 ‐ I'm a person, just like you. 00:05:30.047 --> 00:05:31.715 COMMENTER: Britney Spears, she's bald. 00:05:31.715 --> 00:05:33.425 JAY LENO: Friends say this is the craziest thing Britney 00:05:33.425 --> 00:05:35.177 has ever done that didn't involve marriage. 00:05:35.177 --> 00:05:36.470 It's unbelievable. 00:05:36.470 --> 00:05:38.055 DAVID LETTERMAN: Britney Spears had chapped head. 00:05:38.055 --> 00:05:40.557 ♪ ♪ 00:05:40.557 --> 00:05:44.353 [siren wailing] 00:05:44.353 --> 00:05:46.605 REPORTER: Thursday, a police motorcade 00:05:46.605 --> 00:05:48.023 accompanied the ambulance 00:05:48.023 --> 00:05:50.442 taking Britney Spears to UCLA Hospital. 00:05:50.442 --> 00:05:52.027 COMMENTER: Clearly she's been suffering some 00:05:52.027 --> 00:05:53.779 from some mental issues, 00:05:53.779 --> 00:05:55.447 anxiety, perhaps even more. COMMENTER: Yeah. 00:05:55.447 --> 00:05:57.407 REPORTER: We hope the best for your daughter, sir! 00:05:57.407 --> 00:06:00.118 REPORTER: Friday, Britney's father, Jamie, went to court, 00:06:00.118 --> 00:06:02.245 and a Los Angeles judge gave him 00:06:02.245 --> 00:06:05.499 and an advisor temporary conservator status. 00:06:05.499 --> 00:06:07.000 ‐ Y'all, please get out of my way. 00:06:12.589 --> 00:06:15.592 [light music] 00:06:15.592 --> 00:06:16.927 ♪ ♪ 00:06:16.927 --> 00:06:20.347 ‐ So the conservatorship was granted in February 2008 00:06:20.347 --> 00:06:22.933 amid concerns around Britney's mental health 00:06:22.933 --> 00:06:24.476 and potential substance use. 00:06:24.476 --> 00:06:27.604 ♪ ♪ 00:06:27.604 --> 00:06:29.398 Many of the court records are sealed, 00:06:29.398 --> 00:06:32.734 so there's a lot that's unknown about the situation, 00:06:32.734 --> 00:06:34.778 but people in the conservatorship 00:06:34.778 --> 00:06:36.446 long maintained to the public 00:06:36.446 --> 00:06:38.532 that it was a smooth‐running operation. 00:06:38.532 --> 00:06:40.033 ♪ ♪ 00:06:40.033 --> 00:06:41.493 COMMENTER: And as far as the conservatorship 00:06:41.493 --> 00:06:43.453 is concerned, which has been in place, 00:06:43.453 --> 00:06:45.997 her father in charge of her affairs, it seems to me, 00:06:45.997 --> 00:06:48.458 given all the pressure she faces in her daily life 00:06:48.458 --> 00:06:50.544 just being Britney Spears the star, 00:06:50.544 --> 00:06:53.046 it seems like exactly the right thing, so she... 00:06:53.046 --> 00:06:55.549 ‐ Conservatorships are always supposed to be designed 00:06:55.549 --> 00:06:59.177 around serving the best interest of the conservatee, 00:06:59.177 --> 00:07:00.762 so it's a really interesting question. 00:07:00.762 --> 00:07:03.181 What is the best interest of Britney? 00:07:03.181 --> 00:07:05.642 [camera shutters snapping] 00:07:05.642 --> 00:07:07.102 FAN: We love you, Britney! ‐ Stay off. 00:07:07.102 --> 00:07:08.603 Hold on, hold on. 00:07:08.603 --> 00:07:10.272 LIZ: When the conservatorship first started, 00:07:10.272 --> 00:07:13.650 Jamie had the power to retain security around Britney 24/7. 00:07:13.650 --> 00:07:15.235 ‐ Watch out, guys. Watch out. 00:07:15.235 --> 00:07:17.445 ‐ Why do you have to‐‐ You look great, Britney. 00:07:17.445 --> 00:07:20.198 ‐ Edan Yemini runs Black Box Security, 00:07:20.198 --> 00:07:23.034 which was Britney's longtime security company. 00:07:23.034 --> 00:07:27.455 ♪ ♪ 00:07:27.455 --> 00:07:29.583 I don't think security has gotten much scrutiny. 00:07:29.583 --> 00:07:31.918 You may, like, see them in the background of a photo, 00:07:31.918 --> 00:07:33.211 hovering around Britney, 00:07:33.211 --> 00:07:35.839 but we didn't really understand what they did. 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:38.842 [soft investigative music] 00:07:38.842 --> 00:07:40.302 ♪ ♪ 00:07:40.302 --> 00:07:45.432 INTERVIEWER: Okay, so‐‐ ALEX: So I worked 00:07:45.432 --> 00:07:50.437 with the security team for Britney for almost 9 years. 00:07:50.437 --> 00:07:54.274 I started at Black Box being Edan's assistant. 00:07:54.274 --> 00:07:59.654 I did everything from write his emails to 00:07:59.654 --> 00:08:03.366 be on all phone conversations in order to take notes for him. 00:08:03.366 --> 00:08:05.702 I was the only person at Black Box 00:08:05.702 --> 00:08:09.748 that knew everything, really. 00:08:10.874 --> 00:08:15.921 Edan was so relieved when he saw the first documentary. 00:08:15.921 --> 00:08:19.883 He was so relieved that he wasn't mentioned, 00:08:19.883 --> 00:08:24.221 Black Box wasn't mentioned, Tri Star wasn't mentioned. 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.599 It was his biggest fear 00:08:27.599 --> 00:08:33.230 that security would somehow draw any attention. 00:08:33.230 --> 00:08:37.025 INTERVIEWER: So let's start at the beginning. 00:08:37.025 --> 00:08:40.195 ‐ When I started working at Black Box in 2012, Britney 00:08:40.195 --> 00:08:43.531 was the only full‐time client. 00:08:43.531 --> 00:08:44.991 REPORTER: Come forward. Come forward. 00:08:44.991 --> 00:08:46.701 REPORTER: Move forward, Britney. Go forward. 00:08:46.701 --> 00:08:48.161 REPORTER: Just go forward, Britney. 00:08:48.161 --> 00:08:50.330 ALEX: When I got the job, I was super excited. 00:08:50.330 --> 00:08:52.457 I just turned 21 that year. 00:08:52.457 --> 00:08:54.209 Um, it was‐‐it was‐‐honestly, 00:08:54.209 --> 00:08:55.752 it felt like an opportunity of a lifetime 00:08:55.752 --> 00:08:58.213 because there was potential. 00:08:58.213 --> 00:09:00.966 [electronic music] 00:09:00.966 --> 00:09:04.010 But I would see her very briefly. 00:09:04.010 --> 00:09:05.720 A lot of the times, they would even ask me to leave 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.599 if we knew Britney was going to be home. 00:09:09.599 --> 00:09:12.227 I didn't know even anything about the conservatorship. 00:09:12.227 --> 00:09:14.896 I'd never heard of that, and everything that I would 00:09:14.896 --> 00:09:19.859 know about the conservatorship would be from Edan. 00:09:19.859 --> 00:09:21.278 ♪ ♪ 00:09:21.278 --> 00:09:22.571 We were told the conservatorship 00:09:22.571 --> 00:09:23.863 was there for her own good, 00:09:23.863 --> 00:09:29.494 that it was there to protect her from influence, 00:09:29.494 --> 00:09:32.330 from her losing money, 00:09:32.330 --> 00:09:35.208 that it was a way for her to have custody of her kids. 00:09:37.002 --> 00:09:38.420 The same thing was always repeated, 00:09:38.420 --> 00:09:40.046 that this is something she wants. 00:09:41.590 --> 00:09:42.882 I remember, I asked Edan, 00:09:42.882 --> 00:09:45.218 "Why is it that security is with her 24/7?" 00:09:45.218 --> 00:09:46.595 And he told me 00:09:46.595 --> 00:09:49.723 that security was part of the conservatorship. 00:09:49.723 --> 00:09:51.433 REPORTER: Britney Spears: 00:09:51.433 --> 00:09:53.310 A California court has named her father her temporary... 00:09:53.310 --> 00:09:54.519 REPORTER: Britney's dad, Jamie Spears, 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:55.979 just filed for conservatorship‐‐ 00:09:55.979 --> 00:09:57.606 REPORTER: Source tells Us Weekly Britney's dad 00:09:57.606 --> 00:09:59.357 is now consulting with her medical team. 00:09:59.357 --> 00:10:01.484 ‐ For the most part, Britney's father, Jamie, 00:10:01.484 --> 00:10:04.070 has been the face of the conservatorship 00:10:04.070 --> 00:10:06.239 and has been the one getting most of the attention 00:10:06.239 --> 00:10:08.700 and scrutiny, but we've learned 00:10:08.700 --> 00:10:11.077 that there were a lot more people behind the scenes 00:10:11.077 --> 00:10:16.124 who, you know, really had influence over Britney's life. 00:10:16.124 --> 00:10:18.543 Her business management, basically accounting, 00:10:18.543 --> 00:10:21.588 financials, was handled by a company 00:10:21.588 --> 00:10:23.673 called Tri Star Sports & Entertainment, 00:10:23.673 --> 00:10:26.259 which is run by a woman named Lou Taylor. 00:10:26.259 --> 00:10:28.595 LOU: Well, we thought it was important to hear a voice 00:10:28.595 --> 00:10:31.723 for Jamie and Lynne Spears. I mean, here you have Britney 00:10:31.723 --> 00:10:36.061 that needs to have some security somewhere 00:10:36.061 --> 00:10:37.771 that every single thing she does 00:10:37.771 --> 00:10:40.482 and every single person she has a relationship with 00:10:40.482 --> 00:10:43.526 doesn't become an opportunity to be exploited. 00:10:43.526 --> 00:10:45.945 LIZ: And a Tri Star staffer named Robin Greenhill 00:10:45.945 --> 00:10:48.406 was closely involved in the Britney account. 00:10:50.825 --> 00:10:53.536 ‐ Jamie, Edan, and Robin were basically a part 00:10:53.536 --> 00:10:58.124 of every step Britney took. 00:10:59.751 --> 00:11:02.921 There was a group chat with Edan, 00:11:02.921 --> 00:11:06.174 Robin and Jamie, and security 00:11:06.174 --> 00:11:09.094 where they would basically post all movement. 00:11:09.094 --> 00:11:12.180 [reporters clamoring] 00:11:12.180 --> 00:11:18.019 Even in the sacred place, her home, 00:11:18.019 --> 00:11:23.274 every single request was monitored and recorded. 00:11:23.274 --> 00:11:27.487 Her intimate relations were closely managed. 00:11:27.487 --> 00:11:29.280 REPORTER: How you doing, Britney? 00:11:29.280 --> 00:11:33.076 ‐ You know, Britney could not have someone 00:11:33.076 --> 00:11:34.828 in the privacy of her house 00:11:34.828 --> 00:11:36.788 without those three people knowing. 00:11:37.747 --> 00:11:41.626 Edan would say, "She's just like a child 00:11:41.626 --> 00:11:43.878 "and like any other minor 00:11:43.878 --> 00:11:46.214 who needs their parents' consent." 00:11:47.674 --> 00:11:51.261 Around the same time is when one of the new agents 00:11:51.261 --> 00:11:54.472 that was working her was asking me, 00:11:54.472 --> 00:11:58.727 "How is it okay 00:11:58.727 --> 00:12:02.522 that we're in charge of her medication?" 00:12:03.815 --> 00:12:05.275 You know, I was like, "What do you mean?" 00:12:05.275 --> 00:12:08.486 He's like, "Well, we were given prepackaged envelopes. 00:12:08.486 --> 00:12:11.865 "We have to hand them to her, and she can't leave. 00:12:11.865 --> 00:12:14.033 She has to take it there." 00:12:14.033 --> 00:12:17.036 And, you know, every time that was brought up or discussed, 00:12:17.036 --> 00:12:20.790 it was like, "This is what security should be doing 00:12:20.790 --> 00:12:24.169 "because, you know, this is what the client is asking for, 00:12:24.169 --> 00:12:26.337 and this is what the client needs." 00:12:27.797 --> 00:12:30.133 INTERVIEWER: Was the client asking for it, or‐‐ 00:12:30.133 --> 00:12:32.218 ‐ The client is Jamie. 00:12:33.470 --> 00:12:34.804 You know, when I took a step back 00:12:34.804 --> 00:12:37.390 and I looked at everything, 00:12:37.390 --> 00:12:43.021 it really reminded me of somebody that was in prison, 00:12:43.021 --> 00:12:46.566 and security was put in a position 00:12:46.566 --> 00:12:50.445 to be the prison guards, essentially. 00:13:01.414 --> 00:13:03.249 [baby crying] 00:13:03.249 --> 00:13:04.918 NARRATOR: Each of us begins life 00:13:04.918 --> 00:13:08.087 needing the care of others. 00:13:08.087 --> 00:13:10.423 Later in our lives, many of us need help 00:13:10.423 --> 00:13:12.175 to live the best life possible. 00:13:14.719 --> 00:13:17.722 In California, if people are found by a judge 00:13:17.722 --> 00:13:21.226 to be unable to care for themselves or their finances, 00:13:21.226 --> 00:13:24.646 the court may appoint another person to take responsibility. 00:13:25.438 --> 00:13:28.358 This arrangement is called a conservatorship. 00:13:28.817 --> 00:13:30.735 LIZ: Conservatorships are not meant 00:13:30.735 --> 00:13:33.279 for just anyone with a mental health issue 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.114 or a substance use issue. 00:13:35.114 --> 00:13:37.784 Otherwise, there would be tens of millions of Americans 00:13:37.784 --> 00:13:39.494 under conservatorships. 00:13:39.494 --> 00:13:41.579 They're supposed to be a last resort 00:13:41.579 --> 00:13:44.999 because they really take a lot of powers away from someone. 00:13:44.999 --> 00:13:49.629 The standard in California is that you are unable to feed, 00:13:49.629 --> 00:13:52.257 clothe, or shelter yourself, 00:13:52.257 --> 00:13:54.759 but Britney starts working almost immediately 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:56.302 after the conservatorship starts. 00:13:56.302 --> 00:13:58.721 [gentle music] 00:13:58.721 --> 00:14:01.266 REPORTER: A California court has now given her father 00:14:01.266 --> 00:14:03.685 limited control over her troubled life. 00:14:03.685 --> 00:14:05.937 ‐ Here, "From the personal library of Ted Mosby." 00:14:05.937 --> 00:14:07.230 That's you! 00:14:07.230 --> 00:14:08.982 LIZ: She starts guest starring on TV. 00:14:08.982 --> 00:14:11.109 She starts recording a new album. 00:14:11.109 --> 00:14:15.113 She starts preparing to embark on this huge blockbuster tour 00:14:15.113 --> 00:14:17.073 called the Circus Tour. 00:14:17.073 --> 00:14:21.411 ♪ ♪ 00:14:21.411 --> 00:14:25.790 ‐ In 2008, I was recruited from Shakira's management team 00:14:25.790 --> 00:14:29.043 to come into the Britney world to help right the ship. 00:14:29.043 --> 00:14:32.005 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] 00:14:37.427 --> 00:14:38.970 The promotional tour for Circus 00:14:38.970 --> 00:14:41.264 involved the Black Forest in Germany. 00:14:41.264 --> 00:14:43.683 We did the Bambi Awards, the next day to Paris. 00:14:43.683 --> 00:14:46.477 ‐ Britney Spears! 00:14:46.477 --> 00:14:49.230 DAN: That's where we shot Star Academy. 00:14:49.230 --> 00:14:52.525 The next day, we moved to London to do X Factor. 00:14:52.525 --> 00:14:56.237 ‐ Wow, ladies and gentlemen, Britney Spears! 00:14:56.237 --> 00:14:57.614 DAN: A couple days off, 00:14:57.614 --> 00:14:59.449 flew to New York, Good Morning America. 00:15:01.618 --> 00:15:02.952 DAN: Then LA... 00:15:02.952 --> 00:15:04.495 ‐ Britney, would you like to help the mayor? 00:15:04.495 --> 00:15:05.997 DAN: Christmas tree lighting. 00:15:05.997 --> 00:15:07.206 ‐ Hi. ‐ Hi. 00:15:07.206 --> 00:15:08.875 DAN: Uh, Ellen, which was a pretape. 00:15:08.875 --> 00:15:10.543 ‐ We're just, uh‐‐we're just kind of spreading cheer 00:15:10.543 --> 00:15:12.128 around the neighborhood. 00:15:12.128 --> 00:15:13.504 BRITNEY: ♪ Boy, don't try to front I, I know ♪ 00:15:13.504 --> 00:15:15.506 And on five, we'll just turn around and just pose. 00:15:15.506 --> 00:15:17.342 Five, six, seven, pose. 00:15:17.342 --> 00:15:18.843 ♪ Womanizer ♪ 00:15:18.843 --> 00:15:22.430 DAN: Then about a week off, and we flew to Japan. 00:15:22.430 --> 00:15:24.766 ‐ Britney Spears [speaking Japanese] 00:15:24.766 --> 00:15:26.601 Give her a big hand. Thank you very much! 00:15:26.601 --> 00:15:28.603 ‐ Thank you very much! ‐ [speaking Japanese] 00:15:28.603 --> 00:15:31.397 DAN: It was intense. It was an intense schedule. 00:15:31.397 --> 00:15:33.358 It had to have been approved by the court, 00:15:33.358 --> 00:15:35.568 so apparently they felt 00:15:35.568 --> 00:15:39.864 that she had the capacity to endure that. 00:15:39.864 --> 00:15:41.991 [dramatic music] 00:15:41.991 --> 00:15:45.453 LIZ: The Circus tour goes on to gross over $100 million 00:15:45.453 --> 00:15:49.332 and is one of the biggest tours of 2009, 00:15:49.332 --> 00:15:50.875 and the more money Britney brings in, 00:15:50.875 --> 00:15:53.711 the more money everyone makes. 00:15:53.711 --> 00:15:55.046 According to court records, 00:15:55.046 --> 00:15:56.547 Tri Star, the business manager, 00:15:56.547 --> 00:16:00.176 was getting 5 percent of Britney's gross income, 00:16:00.176 --> 00:16:03.304 and Jamie is making $16,000 a month 00:16:03.304 --> 00:16:07.475 plus a percent of Britney's multimillion‐dollar deals, 00:16:07.475 --> 00:16:10.061 so if her father, Jamie, as conservator 00:16:10.061 --> 00:16:11.979 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? 00:16:19.445 --> 00:16:24.826 ‐ Like that. [cheers and applause] 00:16:24.826 --> 00:16:26.244 FELICIA: It was a toxic environment. 00:16:26.244 --> 00:16:27.537 It really was. 00:16:27.537 --> 00:16:30.039 I mean, it made many people feel just yucky. 00:16:30.957 --> 00:16:33.584 Yeah. It did. TISH: Yeah. 00:16:33.584 --> 00:16:36.129 Well, and I don't think we've realized it, 00:16:36.129 --> 00:16:38.798 almost, till now because it was always go‐go‐go. 00:16:38.798 --> 00:16:40.466 FELICIA: Yeah. ‐ And so, now, 00:16:40.466 --> 00:16:41.884 when you start talking about it, 00:16:41.884 --> 00:16:44.095 and your heart starts fluttering, and you get heavy, 00:16:44.095 --> 00:16:47.849 you think, "What is this? What is this feeling?" 00:16:47.849 --> 00:16:50.768 ‐ You will feel lighter after you talk about it, 00:16:50.768 --> 00:16:52.395 after you get it out. TISH: Yeah. 00:16:52.395 --> 00:16:54.480 I take care of Britney's wardrobe 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:56.899 for her and the concerts. 00:16:56.899 --> 00:17:00.027 We're introducing a new number tonight, "Mannequin." 00:17:00.027 --> 00:17:02.405 Britney has designed all of the clothes. 00:17:02.405 --> 00:17:06.659 I have worked with six or seven other A‐class artists, 00:17:06.659 --> 00:17:09.662 and she is always my favorite to work with. 00:17:09.662 --> 00:17:12.665 She's the most polite human being, 00:17:12.665 --> 00:17:17.503 you know, to work for, but to also be with. 00:17:17.503 --> 00:17:21.674 Oh, this, she had a black‐‐ I made a black bodysuit. 00:17:21.674 --> 00:17:23.760 FELICIA: Yeah. TISH: And then she wanted 00:17:23.760 --> 00:17:26.262 some green military stuff 00:17:26.262 --> 00:17:27.680 to add to it, 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:31.392 but then I was told to not let her see it, so... 00:17:31.392 --> 00:17:34.312 [gentle music] 00:17:34.312 --> 00:17:36.189 ♪ ♪ 00:17:36.189 --> 00:17:41.152 ‐ I really do not think that Jamie is the one 00:17:41.152 --> 00:17:44.155 that was controlling everything. 00:17:44.155 --> 00:17:47.033 Who I dealt with was Robin Greenhill. 00:17:47.033 --> 00:17:48.534 [spacey electronic music] 00:17:48.534 --> 00:17:52.705 When I first met Robin and she was around and backstage, 00:17:52.705 --> 00:17:55.124 I thought she was Britney's assistant. 00:17:55.124 --> 00:17:57.960 INTERVIEWER: And did she have a job title? 00:17:57.960 --> 00:17:59.629 ‐ I don't know. I‐‐I‐‐we‐‐ 00:17:59.629 --> 00:18:02.090 none of us ever knew Robin's job title. 00:18:02.090 --> 00:18:04.759 It was a, "Well, she works for Tri Star," 00:18:04.759 --> 00:18:07.720 and then you go, "Why is she here? 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:09.764 "Why‐‐I mean, that's the business management. 00:18:09.764 --> 00:18:11.557 "That's not your tour manager. 00:18:11.557 --> 00:18:16.229 That's not your A party road scheduler." 00:18:16.229 --> 00:18:17.980 You know, like, there's so many‐‐ 00:18:17.980 --> 00:18:19.649 and Robin was Robin. 00:18:19.649 --> 00:18:21.609 ‐ Right now, she's wanting to know when she's going 00:18:21.609 --> 00:18:24.654 to start full run‐throughs because she wants 00:18:24.654 --> 00:18:26.989 to chronologically go through these things 00:18:26.989 --> 00:18:30.201 and get it under her and see what she needs to do. 00:18:30.201 --> 00:18:33.579 ‐ I had to have Robin's approval 00:18:33.579 --> 00:18:37.917 before I spoke with Britney about a question Britney had. 00:18:48.469 --> 00:18:50.388 INTERVIEWER: What kind of things would she do? 00:18:50.388 --> 00:18:51.764 What would she control? 00:18:51.764 --> 00:18:54.559 ‐ She‐‐every, like, the little, little things. 00:18:54.559 --> 00:18:56.853 Like Britney would say, "Hey, is there any way 00:18:56.853 --> 00:18:58.229 we could have sushi for dinner?" 00:18:58.229 --> 00:19:02.108 And I would hear Robin say, "You had sushi yesterday. 00:19:02.108 --> 00:19:04.819 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. 00:19:24.714 --> 00:19:28.134 ♪ ♪ 00:19:28.134 --> 00:19:30.803 ‐ But, Jamie, you need to give us the days 00:19:30.803 --> 00:19:32.889 that she has the kids and needs to be home. 00:19:32.889 --> 00:19:34.390 JAMIE: I'll take care of the kids. 00:19:34.390 --> 00:19:35.808 ‐ Okay. ‐ And she'll just come in 00:19:35.808 --> 00:19:37.018 wherever because I'm going to be the one 00:19:37.018 --> 00:19:38.936 to go stay with the kids. 00:19:38.936 --> 00:19:42.523 ‐ Hey, Jamie. ‐ Can we go say hi to Mama? 00:19:42.523 --> 00:19:44.734 ‐ What's up, boys? ‐ No, Mama is working. 00:19:46.569 --> 00:19:48.821 [dance music playing] 00:19:48.821 --> 00:19:51.240 EMCEE: Put your hands in the air! 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.576 TISH: We were on the Circus tour. 00:19:53.576 --> 00:19:55.870 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 ♪ 00:21:35.803 --> 00:21:38.723 TISH: It just has to be too 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 difference was just that it was 00:22:07.501 --> 00:22:09.462 a very heavily managed process. 00:22:09.462 --> 00:22:11.797 You know, it was largely to do with this conservatorship 00:22:11.797 --> 00:22:15.593 that her father has had over her since early this year. 00:22:15.593 --> 00:22:16.886 INTERVIEWER: Yeah, her dad now has 00:22:16.886 --> 00:22:18.763 tremendous control over her. 00:22:18.763 --> 00:22:21.098 You weren't allowed to 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 Edan explained 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 up with 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 me text 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 understanding something, 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 under the restraints that I'm under 00:26:14.206 --> 00:26:15.833 right now with all the lawyers and doctors 00:26:15.833 --> 00:26:18.127 and people analyzing me every 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 kept very, very isolated. 00:27:27.946 --> 00:27:31.158 Her manager, when I first came 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 way of 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 drugs or 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 job with 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 tour that I came back for, 00:28:21.708 --> 00:28:25.712 and I went back into my 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 allowed to 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 further they could push me back, 00:30:51.733 --> 00:30:53.569 the smaller the 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 trying to 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 heart are 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 appearance on the show 00:31:46.705 --> 00:31:50.792 brought in the highest ratings ever for Glee. 00:31:50.792 --> 00:31:53.629 LIZ: Britney is working a lot during 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 making 58 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 million in album sales worldwide, 00:32:04.431 --> 00:32:06.642 the highest‐selling line of celebrity fragrances 00:32:06.642 --> 00:32:08.268 on the market, including a 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 headline her own Las Vegas show. 00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:19.363 REPORTER: They're raking in around $310,000 per show. 00:32:19.363 --> 00:32:21.114 They deposit close to $1 million 00:32:21.114 --> 00:32:23.408 in Brit's bank account every 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 is the queen of Sin City. 00:32:35.003 --> 00:32:36.505 The pop star currently a 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 performances and merchandise 00:32:45.514 --> 00:32:49.267 from Britney's blockbuster Vegas show. 00:32:49.267 --> 00:32:51.228 REPORTER: Planet Hollywood not only gave her a raise 00:32:51.228 --> 00:32:52.604 but increased the number of shows 00:32:52.604 --> 00:32:55.565 she'll be performing from 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's a closed‐door court hearing 00:34:05.677 --> 00:34:08.597 in Britney's conservatorship case 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 conservatorship system 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 Spears had 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 rehab a few years 00:35:28.426 --> 00:35:30.262 before becoming her 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 representing the conservatorship responded 00:35:39.938 --> 00:35:41.898 that Jamie had been taking 00:35:41.898 --> 00:35:44.442 regularly scheduled alcohol 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 offers a 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 have meet 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 people that 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 greet in Vegas with Brit. 00:37:13.573 --> 00:37:15.575 It comes complete with 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 do 20 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 hurt her 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 releases her ninth studio album 00:42:28.805 --> 00:42:32.100 and in the midst of her very successful 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 wrote in 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 conservators have 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 have made commendable efforts 00:44:46.776 --> 00:44:49.445 "to help her reach the positive 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 crew and 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 Me is finishing, 00:47:17.677 --> 00:47:19.971 and she is going straight 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 Vegas was 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 Vegas for 4 years, 00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:38.531 and I needed a 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 and this 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 everything I do very seriously. 00:47:45.371 --> 00:47:48.165 There's tons of video with 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 telling my 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 like they're gonna come back 00:48:10.563 --> 00:48:12.356 and be mean to me or 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 anticipated Vegas 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 13th at 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 me down in a room 00:48:24.035 --> 00:48:25.953 and said he had a million phone calls 00:48:25.953 --> 00:48:28.372 about how I was not cooperating under house rules 00:48:28.372 --> 00:48:30.458 and I haven't been taking 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 call from my dad saying, 00:48:38.758 --> 00:48:40.551 "They're planning to send you to a small home 00:48:40.551 --> 00:48:43.054 "in Beverly Hills to do a small rehab program 00:48:43.054 --> 00:48:44.722 that we're going to make up for you." 00:48:44.722 --> 00:48:46.057 I cried on the phone for an hour, 00:48:46.057 --> 00:48:48.517 and he loved every minute of it. 00:48:48.517 --> 00:48:51.520 The control he had over someone as powerful as me, 00:48:51.520 --> 00:48:53.981 as he loved the control to 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 bags and 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 into a 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 focus on 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‐threatening colon 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 door for my room. 00:50:13.102 --> 00:50:14.437 They all lived in 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 say in my schedule. 00:50:18.649 --> 00:50:20.443 They always told me I 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't walk out the front door. 00:50:32.121 --> 00:50:34.123 LIZ: Under California conservatorship, 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 sent Britney 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: Fans of Britney Spears are worried 00:53:09.528 --> 00:53:11.780 about her well‐being following bombshell claims 00:53:11.780 --> 00:53:14.700 that she is being held 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 movement really 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 media is erupting 00:53:31.050 --> 00:53:32.968 in Britney Spears hysteria, 00:53:32.968 --> 00:53:35.346 launching a 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 her with her boyfriend, Sam, 00:54:05.793 --> 00:54:08.504 at the Montage Hotel in 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 come out 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 nothing to 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 photos are 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 prisoner at 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 back home with her family tonight 00:54:34.113 --> 00:54:36.365 after checking out of a mental health facility. 00:54:36.365 --> 00:54:38.284 ‐ When she was released from 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 investigators were 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 against the viral campaign, 00:55:23.203 --> 00:55:25.080 "All these conspiracy 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 court of California 00:55:28.375 --> 00:55:30.169 to decide what's best for 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: End conservatorship 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 vehemently opposed to this effort 00:55:56.695 --> 00:55:59.073 "by her father to keep her legal struggle 00:55:59.073 --> 00:56:02.034 "hidden away in the closet as 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 that the 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 assets were 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're on 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 hear from you, Ms. Spears, 00:57:36.044 --> 00:57:39.006 so feel free to 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 petition the 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 honestly didn'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 able to 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 myself right 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 trying to have another baby, 00:58:17.377 --> 00:58:21.215 but this so‐called team won't let me go to the doctor 00:58:21.215 --> 00:58:23.467 to take it out because 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 this is the right thing. 00:59:31.243 --> 00:59:35.747 I know that this is what 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 should really 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 Hollywood attorney now representing her. 01:01:10.425 --> 01:01:12.803 LIZ: It seems like a small victory, 01:01:12.803 --> 01:01:14.554 but it was a 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 is an enormous development 01:02:03.728 --> 01:02:06.398 in the Britney Spears conservatorship 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 willing to 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 says the 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 sound like a lot at first, 01:02:47.481 --> 01:02:49.983 but it's not when compared to 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 down as 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 going to 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 salaries and things like that. 01:03:30.106 --> 01:03:31.816 REPORTER: We begin tonight with 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 Spears may be about to end. 01:03:36.780 --> 01:03:39.866 Jamie Spears, her father and conservator of her estate, 01:03:39.866 --> 01:03:41.952 filed a petition to 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 things he 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 do what her father says? 01:04:09.312 --> 01:04:11.064 REPORTER: How could this kind of, 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 conservatorship be terminated entirely, 01:04:20.615 --> 01:04:23.159 and will there ever be a 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 most famous 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 you make your decisions, ma'am, 01:05:22.177 --> 01:05:23.595 but this is the 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 of let 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 people with 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 simply wants 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 she have to scream it? 01:06:01.508 --> 01:06:03.677 BRITNEY: I wish I could stay with you on the phone forever 01:06:03.677 --> 01:06:05.804 because when I get off the 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 tired of feeling alone. 01:06:19.567 --> 01:06:21.111 And now, we can sit here all day and say, 01:06:21.111 --> 01:06:23.154 "Oh, conservatorships are here to help people," 01:06:23.154 --> 01:06:25.865 but, ma'am, there's a 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 touch with 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 same rights as anybody does, 01:08:26.861 --> 01:08:28.655 and that's all I wanted to say to you, 01:08:28.655 --> 01:08:31.115 and thank you so much for letting 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 ♪ ♪ 105743

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