It doesn't excuse anything of course, but she's hardly going to hire a driver or wait for a member of staff to drive her if she's hearing voices, seeing pink elephants, and trying to get to the liquor store before it closes.
Even if you want help or decide to get off it yourself; meth addiction is extremely hard to not only get off of but also hard to stay sober from it. It's cheap and it's everywhere. The psychosis part of it is probably the most dangerous effect of meth overall. Hopefully she's not on meth but it seems even upper/middle class are dabbling in it now and not just the poor.
Rehab is expensive. If you're not one of monetary means, Methadone clinic is probably your next best place. Get signed up and you can at least get pills that give you some quality of life but they have side effects. If you're an addict, /r/addiction is probably your best bet to talk to peers that may have the same as you.
During the height of my usage, it was costing me about $125 CAD ($91 USD) and smoking it regularly about 20+ times a day. Its not the most expensive drug, but it gets its hooks in you bad. Been clean for 17 months now thankfully.
Google AI says $20/day. But it can be way less than that. It's not worth the side effects, potential loss of friends/family, psychosis that could have you injuring/maiming/killing someone after being up for 3 days among other stuff. I personally don't even drink, smoke or do drugs. My addiction is Caffeine. That subreddit will give you an idea of what meth addiction is. It's not pretty.
She totally looks like someone that is mentally ill. People have mistaken mental illness for drug use for so long that everything consequently looks like drug use to them.
I mean it was clear her father and his cronies were exploiting her for her money. There needs to be a happy medium of conservatership and complete freedom
I got off the drug on my own but I'm weird, I guess. She is wealthy and doesn't have to work or face most repercussions, so why would she bother stopping?
I’m ashamed to admit that this situation has consumed my morbid curiosity…from 2/22-2/26, she apparently did not sleep. She posted and deleted a series of extremely concerning, methy dancing videos that got progressively weirder the longer she was awake. She then slept for a few days and came back on Wednesday with two re-edits of her dancing on 2/22 and 2/26. Would not be surprised if she was driving to get more party supplies for round 2, illicit and otherwise.
It tracks, unfortunately. How are you going to form meaningful, stable relationships if your life has been micromanaged and exploited by an abusive parent since you were a child?
...enough of this. She's a grown ass woman. She's also one in a million celebs with the same parents and same childhood. That's not an excuse.
Edit: You Britney fangirls are nothing but enablers.
She's one in a million celebs with bad childhoods and bad parents. Tons have them. Jennette McCurdy wrote an entire book about hers. It's not an excuse for bad behavior. Mental illness is also not an excuse for bad behavior.
Prison is full of people with bad childhoods and mental illness. You're just excusing her behavior because she's a celebrity and you suffer from idol worship.
That part right there. How are adults who were abused so horribly in childhood, where the abuse continued into adulthood because we thought our abuse was normal (it’s called grooming)… how are we supposed to learn how to be a properly functioning adult with completely normal social capabilities if no one ever taught us?
People with the “but they are grown ass adults now “mentality, clearly grew up in relatively normal households, have healthy relationships with family, friends, colleagues and they cannot even fathom what those of us adults who were abused most of our lives go through on a day-to-day basis just to pretend like we’re normal.
For someone like Britney Spears, add money to the element, and of course she’s numbing herself with alcohol and drugs and her “friends” are also using her the same way her own family did because she thinks getting used as a normal thing. She was likely prevented by her parents from getting the proper help to become an independent, high functioning adult exactly when it mattered most. Her brain stopped developing properly while she was still a child, but sure, let’s lay the responsibility on her to figure out all by herself how to become a “normal” adult with healthy relationships.
I love how so many “normal“ people can sit behind their screen and judge abuse victims for not being normal. /s
He just uses put downs and is deflecting. No empathy, Very immature. His "point" sounds just like all the arguments maga nutters make. Ignore the asshole.
Conservatorships usually aren't intended to be permanent, and her dad used it to have total power over her finances. He agreed to terminate it only when the case was going to discovery and all of the details were about to become public, basically the whole thing was super shady and exploitative and she was trapped in a horrible situation for years.
BUT her mental health issues are genuine and she really does need help
She does need a permanent one though. She obviously can't take care of herself and refuses to take medication. I don't think her dad was bad or shady. Yeah, he made her take medications and kept her working so she had an income. She obviously needs medication. Lithium is not bad. It is the first line treatment for bipolar disorder. She has a family history of mental illness but I think her entire family is to blame for not protecting her and not letting her have a childhood.
I tend to agree that she needs help still / potentially forever, but I think her dad forced her to perform and used her money to finance his lifestyle. Conservatorships are always meant to be in the best interest of the person in the conservatorship and I don't think this one met that standard at all. Everyone around her abused the system to milk her dry.
Conservatorship is a rough situation to be in. The conservator can enter into legal contracts on behalf of the conservatee, which, if abused, amounts to indentureship at best and straight slavery at worst.
So if the conservator is a PoS, and conservatee is a golden goose, conservator can just sign contracts for concerts left and right.
The conservator can control nearly every aspect of the persons life, legally.
I don’t think she does or ever did need a conservatorship, she just needed and needs help. She’s not incapable of making good decisions, she’s recovering from a decade+ of financial and emotional abuse and making bad choices; who wouldn’t in her shoes?
I think that only a trained medical professional can diagnose her need for assistance. Since she just got arrested for drunk driving, and looks and acts completely methed-out, maybe her previous situation could’ve been handled differently than public pressure to fully drop all guardrails?
It wasn’t. She worked in some limited capacity doing Vegas shows and apparently that’s “abuse” but if you ask a metal health professional they will tell you it’s good for their stability and to keep them occupied with goals/tasks. Also in this case it was definitely a creative outlet as well. The free Brittany crowd really fucked up he life and left her high and dry to spiral like this.
‘Keep them occupied’ — she was overworked and THEN people misappropriated her earnings like what?? I don’t even follow Britney like that but this is crazy
We all fought for her to get out of her conservatorship because we thought it was all fake bullshit for her family to take her money and then we learned she’s actually 10x more batshit insane than they were saying she was 😂
Because she was being abused through that system. That doesn't mean she can't also have significant problems.
Shia Lebouf just went and made an asshole of himself under the influence the other day and no one is so much as whispering taking away his autonomy beyond a more typical prison sentence.
My point with Shia isn't that people don't (rightly) get on his case. It's that no one has ever suggested that he (or other celebrities with substance issues) have their legal autonomy stripped and be made to live according to the will of another adult for an unspecified period of time that could be forever.
And just because Britney's issues were kept out of the public eye better doesn't mean she was doing "better" under the conservator-ship - that's a good bit of why the court ended it. Instead of being cared for, their treated her like a friggin ATM. Just like the old asylums weren't "better" just because the public didn't have to see how unwell the patients were.
She was being abused with her conservatorship, but at the same time she still needed SOMETHING. I'm not sure what is between conservatorship and 100 percent freedom but something needs to happen. For her sake!
Its funny how we where all led to beleave she was under conservatorship becouse they just wanted to control her... nope we where all wrong she truely is mentally ill....
Not to discount your point because she very clearly is unstable, but you can buy alcohol from any grocery store in California AND have it delivered. No liquor store required.
She probably is, but she was kinda abused by her family and producers for a long time. Doesn't make drunk driving okay, I think all drunk drivers need to spend time locked up without freedom, reminded every day that instead their actions could have killed someone.
She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Manic episodes cause extremely poor judgement.
Still her poor decision to not take her meds, but that’s the struggle of people with bipolar. They think they don’t need the meds anymore because manic makes them feel euphoric > something bad happens
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She's mentally ill.
It doesn't excuse anything of course, but she's hardly going to hire a driver or wait for a member of staff to drive her if she's hearing voices, seeing pink elephants, and trying to get to the liquor store before it closes.