The Free Britney movement entered the US Congress. Tuesday, July 20, two members of the House of Representatives tabled a bill aimed at reforming the modalities of trusteeship in the United States. The text would give individuals placed under guardianship a right of scrutiny over the guardian appointed by the courts. Name given to the bill by its promoters: the “Free Britney Act”, in tribute to the singer deprived of a large part of her autonomy for thirteen years. “If this nightmare happens to her, it can happen to anyone”, said one of the two authors of the text, Republican Representative Nancy Mace, from South Carolina.
The parliamentarians’ initiative is the latest manifestation of the extraordinary echo gathered in the United States by the star, in his fight against a supervision exercised until 2019 entirely by his father and provided jointly since with a named tutor. by justice. Hyperpopular pop star among adolescents in the 2000s, when she was not 20 years old, known for her escapades, pursued by the celebrity press, hospitalized for psychiatric disorders, Britney Spears suddenly became credible.
The emblem of a redemptive cause: the defense of the rights of the million Americans who are, like her, under guardianship, because of a physical or mental incapacity. The slogan “Free Britney”, long the prerogative of a group of fans convinced, even to the point of conspiracy, that the star was held against her will and that she sent cryptic signs of distress in her posts on social networks ( “She put on a yellow top”!), Is now adopted even in the establishment.
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After the New York Times, including the documentary Framing Britney Spears had given substance, in February, to the accusations against his father Jamie Spears, Ronan Farrow, the journalist killer of Harvey Weinstein, took up the Britney case. On Saturday July 3, he showed, in an article of New Yorker, that she was practically sequestered (her accounts on social networks are managed by the public relations company CrowdSurf, the only one authorized to publish her messages, we learn). The day before the first hearing, she called the emergency services to declare herself a victim of abuse of supervision, sowing panic in those around her, reveals the journalist.
The #metoo movement has also embraced Britney. It is true that during his first public statement, Wednesday, June 23, a torrent of revolt of twenty-four minutes, the star had confessed that at 39 years old, she does not even have the right to remove the IUD that was imposed (mother of two teenagers, she would like to have a third child). Even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) took its side: Tuesday, July 13, the venerable civil rights organization supported, along with twenty-five other organizations, the recluse’s request to be able to choose her own lawyer.
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