Britney Spears is once again speaking out — and this time, she says she’s “lucky to be alive” after what she describes as years of trauma tied to her family and her conservatorship.
The 44-year-old pop icon unloaded in a raw Instagram post, claiming the people closest to her left her isolated, fearful, and emotionally scarred. In the post, Britney Spears said she is now “scared” of her own family, years after her controversial legal arrangement finally came to an end.
Sharing an image of a child holding a parent’s hand, Spears reflected on the pain of being cut off from loved ones under the guise of “help.”
“As people, all we really want is to feel connected to each other and never feel alone,” she wrote. “For those of you in your family that have said to help you is to isolate you and make you feel unbelievably left out… they were wrong.”
She added that while forgiveness is possible, forgetting is not.
“We can forgive as people but you don’t ever forget,” Spears continued. “Yearning and longing for contact is always crucial.”
The post then took a darker turn.
“I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive with how my family treated me once in my life,” she wrote. “And now I’m scared of them.”
Spears also suggested her family has never taken accountability for their role in placing her under conservatorship, writing that no matter what, they “will never take responsibility for what they did.”
“It’s weird how God works in mysterious ways,” she added. “My friends, what do you think He is saying today?”
The singer ended the post by revealing a new health setback, telling fans she hasn’t been able to dance after breaking her toe twice, just months after suffering what she previously described as a “horrible” leg injury.
This isn’t the first time Spears has taken aim at her family in recent months. In December, she posted a photo of a Christmas tree paired with biting sarcasm, wishing a “Merry late Christmas” to her “beautiful family” who she said caused “unbelievable trauma — the kind you can’t fix.”
Spears’ fractured relationship with her family dates back to her 13-year conservatorship, which officially ended in November 2021. The legal arrangement began in 2008 amid concerns about her mental health and placed her finances, career, and personal life under strict control.
Her father, Jamie Spears, initially served as co-conservator alongside attorney Andrew Wallet until Wallet stepped down in 2019.
In her 2023 memoir, The Woman In Me, Spears described the conservatorship as deeply dehumanizing, saying it robbed her of her creativity, independence, and sense of self.
“The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child,” she wrote. “I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”
She also said she felt like “a shadow of myself,” struggling with drastic emotional swings and a loss of identity while under legal control.
When a judge finally terminated the conservatorship on November 12, 2021, Spears celebrated what she called “the best day ever,” as fans gathered outside the courthouse in tears. For many supporters, the ruling marked the collapse of a system they believed had trapped the pop star for more than a decade.
The bastards only wanted her money!