“I'm not going to perform on stage right now, not until my dad decides what I wear, what I say, do, think.
In a long message posted on Instagram on Saturday, Britney Spears assures us that she will no longer sing on stage as long as she is under the tutelage of her father.
“I did this for thirteen years… I quit!
»She adds, in this rambling and vehement tone post.
The interpreter of "Toxic" and "Baby One More Time" has engaged in a fight to lift the tutelage that was imposed on him in 2008 after a series of high-profile slippages.
The plan is primarily administered by his father Jamie.
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Calling herself "traumatized", "depressed", Britney Spears, 39, had delivered on June 23 in a Los Angeles court an explosive testimony, in which she had detailed the control exerted on her life, her friendships, her finances, and even her contraceptive methods.
She has always continued to work, however, producing three albums over the past thirteen years and singing regularly on stage in Las Vegas, where she was artist in residence, an experience she ended abruptly in 2019.
A long judicial saga
It was around the same time that the #FreeBritney movement took off, orchestrated in the streets and on social networks by an army of fans to support her in her fight.
On Wednesday, the former child star recorded a first victory, a judge allowing him to choose his own lawyer to defend himself in the proceedings.
Interest in Britney Spears' judicial and psychiatric saga was recently rekindled by the release of a documentary, "Framing Britney Spears", which explores the deterioration of her mental health and her treatment, sometimes cruel, by certain media.
In her post, the singer reveals "not to have liked the way the documentary brings back humiliating moments from the past".
"It's been a long time since I overcame that," she says.