Britney Spears' Circle Unveils Explosive Conservatorship Details In New Doc

Details surrounding Britney Spears' highly-controversial conservatorship will be laid out in the upcoming FX/Hulu Framing Britney Spears documentary, which will air next Friday (February 5). Ahead of its air date, US Weekly previewed the sixth episode of The New York Times Presents series, where the pop titan's former assistant, Felicia Culotta, among others, detail her legal dilemma.

In the 75-minute doc, Culotta admits that she "didn't then nor do I now understand what a conservatorship is," but taking Britney’s age and accomplishments into consideration, she says she knows "firsthand [what Britney is] capable of."

Meanwhile, an executive at Spears' former record label also appears in the TV special, where she discusses her parents and doesn’t hold back with her distain for father, Jamie Spears, who was named the conservator of her person and estate in February 2008. As per her attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, the singer "is afraid of her father" and has refused "to perform as long as her father is in charge of her career."

"Her mother would do whatever it took, personally and for the family’s sake, for Britney to be a star," Kim Kaiman recalls in the doc. "I never talked to her father. The only thing Jamie ever said to me was, 'My daughter is going to be so rich she’s going to buy me a boat.' That’s all I’m going to say about Jamie."

Framing Britney Spears also booked Adam Streisand, a trail lawyer who Britney tried to hire after her 2008 hospitalization. "The first question I had was, ‘Does Britney have the capacity to be able to hire me? Does she have the ability to take my advice?'" he remembers in the film. "The first thing is Britney was able to make the judgment. [She said,] 'Hey, I get what’s going on. I get that I’m not going to be able to resist this conservatorship or avoid this conservatorship.' So, that’s a pretty sound judgment. The second thing was, she said, 'I don’t want my father to be the conservator.' That was her one request. She wanted a professional or somebody independent. … Britney did not want her father to be the conservator of her person, the person who makes decisions about her medical care, treatment, so on and so forth. She also didn’t want him controlling her finances."

Later in the documentary, it is revealed that the judge working on Spears' case disagreed with Streisand that the star was capable of obtaining her own lawyer, so he was not brought on board. "I felt that was not the right decision by the judge," Streisand says, adding that the that the judge had seen her medical report and he had not. “I felt that based on my interactions with Britney that she was capable.”

Framing Britney Spears will be available to stream on Hulu next Friday and air on FX that evening at 10 PM ET.

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