Was #FreeBritney Right All Along?

ICYMI

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3.8 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, Britney Spears spoke in court against her current conservatorship, which began in 2008. In recent years, fans have speculated that Spears was being controlled against her will by her father through this conservatorship, and started the #FreeBritney movement in an attempt to break her out of it. On today’s episode, Madison and Rachelle break down the history of Spears’ conservatorship, the conspiracy theories that arose around #FreeBritney, and what the pop star’s statement changes. Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Derek John. Support ICYMI and listen to the show with zero ads. Sign up to become a Slate Plus member for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:02.1	I'm Rebecca. I'm Josephine's mom.
0:03.8	I'm Elisa.
0:04.6	Can I go over to Josie's house to play?
0:06.4	She met a new friend and puff.
0:07.9	She's gone.
0:09.0	An ordinary play date.
0:10.5	The missing child is Lucia Blix.
0:12.4	Nine years old.
0:13.4	Is about to become every parent's nightmare.
0:16.3	The people who took Lucia plund it meticulously.
0:19.9	She's hiding something, I know it.
0:21.8	The Stolen Girl, a new original series, streaming April 16 exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.5	18 plus subscription required.
0:29.0	Teas and Cs apply.
0:31.1	Have we learned nothing from Anna Nicole Smith?
0:33.7	I know it's hard to see Britney Spears as a human being, but trust me, she is. She's a person.
0:42.8	Hi, I'm Rachel Hampton. And I'm Madison Malone Kircher. You're listening to I see why I am I.
0:48.3	In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture. I know we usually do some little
0:53.3	fun dance up at the top, but today we got to launch right into the topic because there's just so much, maybe too much to discuss. We're referring, of course, to the bombshell testimony that Britney Spears gave in court on Wednesday that detailed the level of control that her father has over her life as the custodian of her conservatorship.
1:15.0	Her statement describes, there's no other way to say it, a really fucking bleak life
1:19.3	where every single choice she has from how she spends her money to where she goes to therapy,
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