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Exactly one week ahead of the pop star’s next conservatorship hearing, Netflix has released a trailer for #BritneyVsSpears, its upcoming Britney Spears documentary.

The film is set to launch the day before the pop star heads to court. bit.ly/3CtAQAy
#BritneyVsSpears hits Netflix on Sept. 28. The next day marks the most significant court hearing in the singer’s legal battle, as she fights for her freedom out of the conservatorship she’s been under for more than a decade. bit.ly/3CtAQAy
In the trailer, a recording from the pop star’s June 23 testimony, in which she addressed the court for the first time publicly, can be heard: “I’ve worked my whole life... I don’t owe these people anything.” bit.ly/3CtAQAy
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Britney Spears rarely participates in person in her ongoing conservatorship case.

Now #FreeBritney supporters see hope as the singer plans to talk latimes.com/entertainment-…
“My client has requested a hearing at which she can address the court directly.”

With those words, the pop star’s court-appointed attorney set in motion a June 23 court appearance that’s certain to send the #FreeBritney folks into overdrive latimes.com/entertainment-…
However, the attorney didn't tell the court exactly what Britney Spears wanted to say.

And she hasn't addressed the court sin e a hearing in a closed room on May 10, 2019. (Since then, #FramingBritneySpears had come out) latimes.com/entertainment-…
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Britney Spears did not appreciate how she was framed in “Framing Britney Spears,” according to a recent Instagram post from the pop musician latimes.com/entertainment-…
On Tuesday, Spears responded directly on social media to the buzzy #FramingBritneySpears documentary for the first time and opened up about the trials of living life under constant media scrutiny latimes.com/entertainment-…
In the comment section of the post, several fans expressed skepticism as to whether the message was really written by Spears.

Multiple people in the documentary itself suspect that Spears does not have control of her social media accounts latimes.com/entertainment-…
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In 2017, @TesstifyBarker and @BabsGray launched a podcast (@BritneysGram) dedicated to humorously dissecting Britney Spears’ enigmatic Instagram account.

And then #FreeBritney took flight latimes.com/entertainment-…
The #FreeBritney hashtag slowly transitioned into a bona-fide movement after a podcast episode in 2019.

That podcast featured a troubling voicemail from someone who claimed to be a former paralegal for a lawyer who worked on Spears’ conservatorship latimes.com/entertainment-…
That same fan-driven campaign is a through line in the much-discussed documentary, #FramingBritneySpears, which traces her rise to fame and the conservatorship she was placed under after a public breakdown in 2007-08 latimes.com/entertainment-…
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A new doc called #FramingBritneySpears explores her father's court-ordered role as her conservator, the #FreeBritney movement and the toxicity of tabloid media as the pop star's mental health and private life remains a source of concern for her fans latimes.com/entertainment-…
For 13 years, nearly every aspect of Britney Spears’ life has been controlled by her father, Jamie Spears.

The 2008 legal arrangement came after the pop star had a very public mental health-meltdown (From the archives) latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
Since she abruptly canceled a second planned residency in early 2019, the legal arrangement — shrouded in mystery and NDAs — has again raised questions:

Why is someone so capable and productive not allowed to make her own decisions? latimes.com/entertainment-…
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