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Britney Spears says she’ll ‘probably never perform again’ after ‘trauma’

Author: Editors Desk Source: The Guardian
September 14, 2022 at 07:05
Britney Spears performs during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images
Britney Spears performs during the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images

Singer says she was devastated she had no creative control over her music videos while involuntarily under conservatorship

Britney Spears fans hoping the pop star will perform live again, now she is free from an infamous conservatorship that governed her life for more than a decade, might not want to hold their breath.

In an Instagram post on Sunday, Spears declared herself “pretty traumatized” from her work onstage under the conservatorship and said she would “probably never perform again”, despite enjoying a career resurgence with her recent Elton John collaboration, Hold Me Closer.

The 40-year-old singer said she was devastated she had no creative control over her music videos while involuntarily under the conservatorship, which was overseen primarily by her father, Jamie Spears, from 2008 to 2021.

Spears also criticized photos former conservators took during performances and said she was uncomfortable with the number of dancers at her side throughout a four-year residency in Las Vegas.

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