“Then, for the first time in years, Spears spoke for herself, sounding lucid and furious”
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare: How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years. Via The New Yorker.
Ronan Farrow and my uber fave, Jia Tolentino, wrote a great albeit sad article about Britney Spears’s over at The New Yorker. The line I quote in the title of this post has to be a Tolentino line. I’m gonna use “lucid and furious” in a sentence soon.
Overall, well, Britney Spears’s parents sound like awful people, and she’s had a bevy of terrible people around her for a long time. Her dad, an alcoholic and all that comes with it. Her mom, bless her heart, a meek lady with no spine to stand up for herself or her child. We are all God’s children, but, my word.
I doubt the conservatorship will go away. I’ll keep the hope that her dad can and will be removed.
Overall, this ongoing saga for BJS really makes ya wonder about disability rights. How can it pass the sniff test that someone like a Britney Spears can work and tour and record, but she can’t get her IUD out??? The fuck is that?!
At my old job, I had a nurse practitioner call me about a patient in her latter 30s, we’ll just call her A, who was accompanied by her own sister, B, not far apart in age. Their parent had passed away a few months prior, and A was developmentally disabled. My colleague, the nurse practitioner (“NP”), didn’t feel comfortable providing services b/c A couldn’t consent (and it’s likely B shared as much), but B did not have medical power of attorney yet. NP was a little shaken up b/c our place of work took abuse/neglect very seriously, and since it was reproductive health care, it’s all the more serious due to stigma. Nonetheless, NPs and the like are just unstoppable in their caring for people, and NP was worried that she hadn’t reported abuse. I reminded her, “Hey, you didn’t say A was unkempt or smelly or wearing dirty clothes or anything like that. You described a pretty pleasant exchange with A and B and they left, understanding your issue. And all this probate stuff? It’s such a nightmare even when it is in place. Their parent just died, who knows what kind of will or whatever is around, plus, that shit is expensive and some people just don’t have the money right now to deal with these things, and that doesn’t make them abusive or negligent.” I assured my NP colleague that I loved where her head is at all the same. I believe we departed that conversation in a good place, and that our workplace did the best in could do in the circumstances for this family. ….I hope this family got things figured out.
Another time, as my father in law’s health was declining, my brother in law asked for help getting an understanding around power of attorney in their state. I reminded dear BIL that I’m not an attorney, but copied and pasted and attached resources to an email back to him and since he’s a smart dude, he got EVERYTHING taken care of in short order.
Whewwww. OK, story time over. God Bless Britney Spears and others in her situation.
It just seems like…..it’s another “damn, she’s crazy” narrative gone horribly awry. Lord, help them.
