- Spears allegedly wrote a letter responding to Kevin Federline's 2008 People cover and wanted it read on television. During the filming of Spears's MTV reality TV special, For the Record, the singer's friend and former photographer Andrew Gallery was pulled into the chaos behind the conservatorship to aid her in getting a message out to the media. Unable to publicly respond to the comments made by her ex-husband in his 2008 People cover, Spears gave Gallery a handwritten note that she compiled. Parts of the letter read, "What happened to Britney was a year ago and people need to get with the times . . . No one talks about these things because no one knows the truth . . . She would love for her new eyes to see her situation, but if she brings it up she's constantly threatened that the conservators will take her kids away." Though he never got the chance to read the letter before this documentary aired, it showed the lengths that Spears had to go to just to be heard.
- Spears reportedly had to hide out in a hotel bathroom to sign a court document requesting a new lawyer. Eliscu was a major player in the beginning of Spears's conservatorship when she tried to help her secure a new lawyer to represent her in her case. The ambitious mission involved a plan to deliver a document for Spears to sign at the Montage Beverly Hills hotel. The document was a petition that would allow Spears to express the lack of confidence she had in her court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III. Ultimately, the mission failed after a judge ruled that Spears still lacked the capacity to retain her own lawyer and had reason to doubt that Spears's own signature was even on the document.
- Spears was pressured by management to do X-Factor against her medical team's advice. The $15 million deal that was struck in 2012 for Spears to serve as a guest judge on The X-Factor put "undue pressure" on her, according to a medical team. However, her management team argued that pulling out of the gig would be a "psychological consequence" and be "just as bad as a publicly observed meltdown." Despite their initial pushback, Spears's medical team cautiously approved her participation on the show but with strict guidelines in place.
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