But the pair grew increasingly intrigued – and concerned – by the legal conservatorship that Spears had been under since 2008. “The podcast organically started to transform into more of an investigative podcast,” Barker said, ahead of the latest court hearing over Spears’s conservatorship in Los Angeles on July 14. Increasingly they worried that she had been “silenced” under the conservatorship, unable to speak out about how unhappy she really was. While local fans have staged protests outside the courthouse, the online campaign spans globally, from Britain to the Philippines. VindicationFor fans, the fact that Spears’s conservatorship has now captured public attention is vindication of their efforts to raise the alarm – in some cases, for years.

Source: The Star July 15, 2021 06:56 UTC