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Netflix Is Releasing a Doc About Britney Spears's Conservatorship — Watch the Trailer

23/09/2021 - 09:15 AM

US singer Britney Spears arrives for the premiere of Sony Pictures'

A new documentary about Britney Spears's conservatorship [1] is coming to Netflix. On Tuesday, the streamer teased the upcoming project, titled Britney Vs. Spears [2], followed by the trailer on Wednesday. The clip features a recording of the singer's harrowing 23 June testimony [3], in which she is heard saying, "I have worked my whole life. I don't owe these people anything." According to Variety, the Erin Lee Carr-directed documentary has been underway for a year and will feature various "key figures" in Britney's life.

The announcement comes a few weeks after Britney [4]'s father, Jamie Spears, unexpectedly filed a petition to end her 13-year conservatorship [5] on 7 Sept. "Recent events related to this conservatorship have called into question whether circumstances have changed to such an extent that grounds for establishment of a conservatorship may no longer exist," the filing stated, according to documents obtained by CNN. "Ms. Spears has told this Court that she wants control of her life back without the safety rails of a conservatorship. She wants to be able to make decisions regarding her own medical care, deciding when, where and how often to get therapy. She wants to control the money she has made from her career and spend it without supervision or oversight. She wants to be able to get married and have a baby, if she so chooses. In short, she wants to live her life as she chooses without the constraints of a conservator or court proceeding." Shortly after the filing, Britney announced that she was engaged [6] to longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari on 12 Sept.

The past year, Britney has expressed her discomfort with documentaries about her life. Following the release of Hulu's Framing Britney Spears [7] in February, she admitted that she cried for two weeks over the documentary [8] and "was embarrassed by the light" it put her in. She made similar remarks following the release of BBC Select's The Battle For Britney: Fans, Cash and a Conservatorship in May, calling the documentaries "hypocritical [9]." "They criticize the media and then do the same thing," Britney wrote at the time. "Damn … I don't know y'all but I'm thrilled to remind you all that although I've had some pretty tough times in my life ... I've had waaaayyyy more amazing times in my life and unfortunately my friends … I think the world is more interested in the negative," she continued. "I mean … isn't this supposed to be a business and society about THE FUTURE 🤧🤧🤧 ???? Why highlight the most negative and traumatizing times in my life from forever ago ????"

Here's hoping Netflix takes note of Britney's comments and focuses less on the media's reporting of her life and more on what Britney has said about her conservatorship [10] in recent months.

Britney Vs. Spears Trailer


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