Britney Spears says her conservatorship turned her into a 'child-robot'
- Britney Spears writes in her new memoir that her conservatorship turned her into a "child-robot."
- "I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself," Spears writes.
Britney Spears says her conservatorship turned her into a "child-robot," according to an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir that was published by People.
"I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself," Spears writes in "The Woman in Me," per People. "The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage."
"I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot," the singer writes, per People.
The singer was placed under a conservatorship in February 2008 after she had several meltdowns in public, including shaving her head and hitting a paparazzo's car with an umbrella.
The conservatorship left her with no control over her assets or personal decisions, and lasted for 13 years until a Los Angeles judge ended it in November 2021.
In her memoir, the "Toxic" singer says she would have gotten herself into a better place on her own without the conservatorship.
"If they'd let me live my life, I know I would've followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out," Spears writes, per People. "Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself."
She writes that the thought of her father "and all his associates" having control over her body and her money made her "feel sick."
"Think of how many male artists gambled all their money away; how many had substance abuse or mental health issues. No one tried to take away their control over their bodies and money," Spears writes, per People. "I didn't deserve what my family did to me."
During her time under the conservatorship, Spears released four studio albums, played multiple concert tours, and held a Las Vegas residency for four years.
"The woman in me was pushed down for a long time," Spears wrote in her memoir, per People. "They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist."
Spears' memoir is set to be released on October 24.