Britney Spears Expresses Relief After Being Freed From Conservatorship In New Memoir
She's truly thankful for the help she received from her lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, who she calls 'amazing' in her book.
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I was at a resort in Tahiti in November when Mathew [Rosengart] called me with the news that I was no longer under a conservatorship. He’d told me when I left for the trip that one day soon I’d be able to wake up for the first time in thirteen years a free woman. Still, I couldn’t believe it when he called me as soon as he came out of the court hearing and told me it was done. I was free.
Even though it was his strategy that had gotten us the victory, he told me that I deserved the credit for what had happened. He said that by giving my testimony, I’d freed myself and probably also helped other people in unfair conservatorships. After having my father take credit for everything I did for so long, it meant everything to have this man tell me that I’d made the difference in my own life.
And now, finally, it was my own life.
— Britney Spears, speaking about the end of the conservatorship that dominated her life for more than a decade, in her new memoir, The Woman in Me (affiliate link), which was officially released today. In the book, the pop icon discusses her life under the conservatorship, and the legal battle she fought alongside her attorney, Mathew Rosengart of Greenberg Traurig, to regain control over her financial and personal affairs. “Being controlled made me so angry on behalf of anyone who doesn’t have the right to determine their own fate,” Spears continued in the book. She later recalled what she wrote on Instagram after the conservatorship was terminated: “Hopefully, my story will make an impact and make some changes in the corrupt system.”
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