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    Britney Spears hasn't fully controlled her life for years. Fans insist it's time to #FreeBritney

    by Laura Newberry, Los Angeles Times Sep 18, 2019 9 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - In late April, Britney Spears delivered a plea to her 22 million Instagram followers.

    "Don't believe everything you read and hear," she wrote in a caption.

    "Your love and dedication is amazing," she went on, "but what I need right now is a little bit of privacy to deal with all the hard things that life is throwing my way."

    It had been three weeks since the pop star had checked into a mental health facility and three months since she canceled her Las Vegas residency. A particularly skeptical contingent of her fans wasn't buying the official reasons for these developments: that she went to the facility by choice, that her dad was sick and she needed the space and time to be there for her family. Theories of what was actually happening inside Spears' guarded private life were growing more numerous and more frenzied, but ultimately shared one notion: that she was being silenced and manipulated, and had been for years.

    The Los Angeles Times spent three months examining Spears' conservatorship and reaching out to those who might have seen firsthand how it has affected her; no one in her inner circle responded to requests for comment. The paper could find no independent evidence that Spears was being harmed by the arrangement.

    Spears is a celebrity like no other - an A-list performer who pulls in millions of dollars a year but does not have full control over her life or business affairs. Since her public unraveling in 2008, she has been subject to

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