Jenny Eliscu - Conservatorships & Freeing Britney Spears
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is Jenny Eliscu, journalist, radio host, and producer on Britney vs. Spears, which covered Britney Spears’ infamous conservatorship. She explains how Britney’s struggles in 2008 were used to justify a permanent conservatorship—despite the contradiction of her being deemed too incapacitated to control her own life, yet well enough to tour, record, and generate massive income that her father, whom she barely had a relationship with, was in charge of.
Drawing from decades of reporting, a personal relationship with Britney, and her work on Britney v. Spears, Jenny breaks down the severity of the conservatorship, stripping Britney of the right to use her phone, make medical decisions, or even have a say in who her lawyer was going to be, and where Britney’s fight to end the conservatorship finally landed.
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| 0:00.0 | This is exactly right. |
| 0:07.4 | Trust me. |
| 0:08.8 | Do you trust me? |
| 0:10.6 | Would I ever lead you astray? |
| 0:12.1 | Trust me. |
| 0:13.0 | This is the truth. |
| 0:14.2 | The only truth. |
| 0:15.6 | If anybody ever tells you to just trust them, don't. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome to Trust me, the podcast about cults, extreme belief, |
| 0:23.5 | and manipulation from two babies one more time who've actually experienced it. I'm Lola Blanc. |
| 0:29.8 | And I'm Megan Elizabeth. And today we are interviewing Jenny Ellis Q, journalist, radio host, |
| 0:35.3 | and producer who's produced documentaries like Britney versus Spears, |
| 0:38.8 | which covered Britney Spears' infamous conservatorship. |
| 0:41.9 | She'll explain how Britney's struggles in 2008 were used to justify a permanent conservatorship, |
| 0:47.0 | despite the contradiction of her being deemed too incapacitated to control her life, |
| 0:51.4 | yet well enough to tour, record, and generate massive income |
| 0:55.5 | that her father, whom she barely had a relationship with, was in charge of. |
| 1:00.4 | She'll talk about the severity of the conservatorship that strip Britney of the right to use her |
| 1:05.9 | phone, make medical decisions, or even have a say in who her lawyer was going to be, and where Britney's |
| 1:12.8 | fight to end the conservatorship finally landed. And before we do this interview with Jenny, |
| 1:19.7 | Megan, can you tell me your cultiest thing of the week? Sure. My cultiest thing of the week has just |
| 1:24.0 | been kind of deep diving into Brittany, you know. And I think celebrity in and of itself |
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