Britney Spears has been living under for more than a decade in a new article in the New Yorker Pulitzer prize winning author Ronan Farrow and co-author

GeoTolentino writing that just hours before Britney's bombshell 20-minute statement in court two weeks ago, the pop star called 911 to report she was a victim of conservatorship abuse.

They write that night members of Spears team began texting one another frantically.

They were worried about what Spears might say the next day and they discussed how to prepare in the event that she went rogue.

It was at that court hearing where fans finally got to hear from the 39-year-old herself, passionately describing to a judge how she says she's been isolated, exploited, embarrassed, and demoralized by the conservatorship that's controlled her life and finances for the last 13 years, asking that it be terminated.

A conservatorship is typically granted for the elderly or someone unable to care for themselves. The New Yorker reporting that in 2008, a judge gave power over Britney's life to a team, including her father, after a hearing that lasted just 10 minutes, the day after Britney was committed to a hospital for a second time, as she was caught in a bitter divorce and custody battle.

A former friend of the Spears family whose testimony helped create the conservatorship, now telling the New Yorker she regrets her actions.

At the time, I thought we were helping and I wasn't and I helped a corrupt family seize all this control.

According to that former friend, Britney's mother Lynn thought the conservatorship would only last a few months.

Hi Jess, it's fantastic to have you on Crime Analysts. I'm really pleased that we could carve out some time to speak to each other at long last. So please introduce yourself to my listeners.

Thank you. I'm really, really pleased to chat to you.

Okay, so I'm Dr Jessica Taylor. I am a psychologist and I'm the director of Victim Focus. We work all over the world to challenge the way that women and girls are treated the way they're perceived when they've been subjected to male violence.

It's a real mix of things that I do. I'm an author, I do a lot of TV and media at the moment.

I work quite heavily with government police, local authorities, private companies and charities to try and shift some of the most dominant ways of thinking about women and girls who have been traumatized, abused, harassed or things like that.

So we do that using research, consultancy, teaching, creating resources and stuff like that. So yeah, it's an interesting, interesting bit of work to be doing.

Not easy stuff at all and we're both tackling violence against women and girls or more importantly male violence because that's really what we're talking about.

And you are an author. I mean, there's so many things that you've done. You've got your PhD and you then wrote your book, Women of Blame for Everything which seemed to go viral pretty quickly, which is about explaining the culture of victim blaming.

And you've had amazing endorsements. I quote various parts of it as well when I'm training, but you've had endorsements from dorm French, Caitlin Moran, JK Rowling from so many people who you've literally blown their socks off when they've read the book.

Perhaps you can describe to my listeners why you wrote the book and maybe the thing that surprised you the most about writing the book.

Yeah, so I guess so did my PhD, which was in forensic psychology and I specialize in the victim, so the psychology of victim blaming and self blame of women and girls.

And when I finish that, I always wanted to create an accessible version of it because I have a real book back around research, not being accessible and being held behind paywalls and things like that.

So I try to do as much as I can that is free or affordable and is always accessible.

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