Britney Spears to address LA court about conservatorship

Los Angeles: Pop star Britney Spears will personally handle the Los Angeles court docket coping with her long-running conservatorship in June, a choose agreed on Tuesday.

Spears, 39, has been beneath a conservatorship since 2008, however not often takes half in court docket hearings and has not publicly commented on the authorized association.

“My client (Britney Spears) has requested a hearing at which she can address the court directly,” the singer’s lawyer Samuel Ingham informed the court docket on Tuesday. “My client has asked that it be done on an expedited basis.”

The choose set a June 23 listening to for Spears to talk to the court docket. It was not identified which issues the singer deliberate to handle.

The singer’s father, Jamie Spears, was appointed his daughter’s conservator in 2008 after the pop star was hospitalized for psychiatric therapy following a extensively publicized breakdown.

Britney Spears made clear final yr by her lawyer that she now not desires her father concerned in her affairs.

A earlier bid to take away him failed in August 2020 and a listening to on Tuesday on a brand new request to take away him was postponed till July with out dialogue.

A tv documentary in February introduced new scrutiny to the case and to the #FreeBritney motion began by followers.

#FreeBritney supporters, who rallied outdoors the courthouse on Tuesday, imagine Spears is being stored prisoner and that she is sending cryptic indicators begging to be freed by her social media accounts.