It’s Britney, bitch.

Or it was, until her socials went dark, which led podcasters Tess Barker and Barbara Gray of Britney’s Gram to start the #FreeBritney movement.

What followed is described by Rolling Stone as “a pop-music version of Watergate”.

On April 22, around 50 Britney fans showed up with signs, merch and boom boxes to tell reporters that they were concerned about her health, especially in light of her long-running conservatorship.

A conservatorship that has her father Jamie Spears making her decisions for her because she has been deemed incapable of doing it herself.

Now Britney herself has joined the movement, in a bid for her own freedom.

Here’s IOL:

Britney Spears has claimed in court that her father Jamie Spears committed her to a mental health facility against her will in her bid to be freed of her conservatorship.

The ‘Gimme More’ hitmaker left the unnamed Los Angeles treatment centre on April 25 after spending 30 days there as a patient with previous reports claiming she had taken the decision to check herself into the facility after becoming “distraught” over her father Jamie’s ongoing health battle which began when he ruptured his colon last November.

Then, last Friday, she told a judge that her father was responsible for having her committed and also forced her to take drugs.

Under a conservatorship, Jaimie does have the power to commit Britney or make her take prescription drugs, FYI.

The hearing was attended by Britney, her father Jamie and mother Lynne Spears and a court-appointed lawyer and was held to assess the need for the singer to remain under the conservatorship of her dad whom has been in control of her affairs for the past 11 years.

The judge has ordered an expert evaluation to determine whether it’s okay to set Britney free.

In the meantime, the #FreeBritney movement is working tirelessly to see her back on Instagram.

[sources:rollingstone&iol]