{"id":128259,"date":"2019-09-19T10:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128259"},"modified":"2019-09-19T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T14:56:08","slug":"why-are-britney-spears-parents-still-controlling-her-life-as-though-shes-a-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=128259","title":{"rendered":"Why are Britney Spears’ parents still controlling her life as though she’s a slave?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britney Spears hasn\u2019t fully controlled her life for years. Fans insist it\u2019s time to #FreeBritney<\/h1>\n

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Britney Spears at the premiere of \u201cOnce Upon a Time … in Hollywood\u201d in July.
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By LAURA NEWBERRY\u00a0 |\u00a0 STAFF WRITER
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In late April, Britney Spears delivered a plea to her 22 million Instagram followers.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t believe everything you read and hear,\u201d she wrote in a caption.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour love and dedication is amazing,\u201d she went on, \u201cbut what I need right now is a little bit of privacy to deal with all the hard things that life is throwing my way.\u201d<\/p>\n

It had been three weeks since the pop star had\u00a0checked into a mental health facility<\/a>\u00a0and three months since she\u00a0canceled her Las Vegas residency.<\/span>\u00a0A particularly skeptical contingent of her fans wasn\u2019t buying the official reasons for these developments: that she went to the facility by choice, that her dad was sick and she needed the space and time to be there for her family. Theories of what was actually happening inside Spears\u2019 guarded private life were growing more numerous and more frenzied, but ultimately shared one notion: that she was being silenced and manipulated, and had been for years.<\/p>\n

Continue reading at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-britney-spears-conservatorship-20190625-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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