I couldn’t even have a conversation with my mom or dad really about anything. I really couldn’t even take up for myself. You can go mentally impaired if you take too much, if you stay on it longer than five months. And lithium is a very, very strong and completely different medication compared to what I was used to. He took me off my normal meds I’ve been on for five years. He immediately, the next day, put me on lithium out of nowhere. Three days later, after I said no to Vegas, my therapist sat me down in a room and said he had a million phone calls about how I was not cooperating in rehearsals, and I haven’t been taking my medication. So I remember telling my assistant, but y’know what I feel weird if I say no, I feel like they’re gonna come back and be mean to me or punish me or something. It was like lifting literally 200 pounds off of me when they said I don’t have to do the show anymore, because it was really really hard on myself and it was too much. There was a week period where they were nice to me, and I told them I don’t want to do the - They were nice to me, they said if I don’t want to do the new Vegas show, I don’t have to because I was getting really nervous. And I’m nowhere near these stupid people. And he also said I wasn’t taking my medication, which is so dumb, because I’ve had the same lady every morning for the past eight years give me my same medication. Benson - who died - that my manager called him and then that moment and told him I wasn’t cooperating or following the guidelines in rehearsals. I was told by my at-the-time therapist, Dr. Ma’am, I’m not here to be anyone’s slave. And I said no, I don’t want to do it this way.Īfter that, my management, my dancers and my assistant of the new people that were supposed to do the new show all went into a room, shut the door and didn’t come out for at least 45 minutes. So why are they even claiming that? When I said no to one dance move into rehearsals, it was as if I planted a huge bomb somewhere. They all said I wasn’t participating in rehearsals and I never agreed to take my medication - which my medication is only taken in the mornings, never at rehearsal. It’s funny to hear my managers’ side of the story. I led a room of 16 new dancers in rehearsals. There’s tons of video with me at rehearsals. I actually did most of the choreography, meaning I taught my dancers my new choreography myself. I was basically directing most of the show. Half of the time in the studio and a half of the other time in a Westlake studio. But no, I was told this is the timeline and this is how it’s going to go. I started rehearsing early, but it was hard because I’d been doing Vegas for four years and I needed a break in between. When I came off that tour, a new show in Las Vegas was supposed to take place. So out of fear, I went ahead and I did the tour. And with the conservatorship, I couldn’t even get my own attorney. He handed me a sheet of paper as I got off the stage in Vegas and said I had to sign it. I was forced to do… My management said if I don’t do this tour, I will have to find an attorney, and by contract my own management could sue me if I didn’t follow through with the tour. The people who did this to me should not be able to walk away so easily. Spears, I hate to interrupt you, but my court reporter is taking down what you’re saying, so you have to speak a little more slowly. I was forced to do… My management said if I don’t do this tour, I will have to find an attorney. The people who did that to me should not be able to walk away so easily. I brought four sheets of paper in my hands and wrote in length what I had been through the last four months before I came there. I haven’t been back to court in a long time, because I don’t think I was heard on any level when I came to court the last time. Basically, a lot has happened since two years ago, the last time - I wrote all this down - the last time I was in court. I just got a new phone, and I have a lot to say, so bear with me. It includes run-on sentences and unclear statements, but the context seems relevant: A lightly edited transcript of Britney Spears’ statement follows.
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