Following a troubled period in the mid-2000s, Britney Spears was placed under a conservatorship in 2008 that was administered by her father Jamie and attorney Andrew Wallet.
But while the parties in charge of that conservatorship have recently changed, it remains in place despite the fact that the breakdown that prompted it occurred over 13 years ago.
Fans have long suspected that this arrangement has allowed her father and others in her life to take financial advantage of Spears and exert undue control over her life, which has since inspired the launch of the "free Britney" movement and the creation of the New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears.
But while Spears has been evasive about these fan concerns in the past, her recent statements at a conservatorship hearing on June 23 reveal just how restrictive the past 13 years have been for her.