I Watched a Sad Doc Lastnight

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I won't be on long. I'm not feeling well. But, I wanted to post about this documentary I watched last night. It was about Brittany Spears. I had been curious and heard a lot about what went on with her but hadn't watched anything on the subject until last night. She was very popular in the early 2000s. She had married and had two kids. The marriage didn't last and at one point the kids were taken from her. Someone thought she was irresponsible with her finances, so they created a conservatorship, in which her estranged father became her(yes, legally she lost her identity and he became her on paper, etc.), and a lawyer oversaw the proceedings. One geriatric psychiatrist who was named in the paperwork on the case said in an interview that he had never even met her. So her father and this lawyer made millions off her and she got a $ 8,000-a-month allowance. Yet she did ALL the work. She wrote the songs, she wrote the choreography, she taught the dancers, and she did all the performing. She toured all over the world. Yet she was deemed irresponsible and unable to take care of her own affairs. She tried twice to get her father taken off the conservatorship but the judge wouldn't even listen to her. She was nobody and was unable to choose yet she did all the work and all the performing. I hope they have changed the laws now and don't let family members be the conservators in such cases. She finally was able to dissolve the conservatorship and got her kids on a 50/50 basis. How sad. This shouldn't happen to anyone. Take care and I hope to be back tomorrow.