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Wendy Williams & Britney Spears: Hollywood Hostages? The DH of Conservatorships

2025-04-24 Entertainment
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Top Comments (10)

@jenniferryder614 2025-04-24

What a lot of people don't remember is that once Britney was under the conservatorship she was FORCED to work. They wouldn't let her have days off.

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@ndtcssh 2025-04-24

We need a part 2 covering Amanda Bynes

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@janelane80 2025-04-24

It’s horrible that women are forced into servitude for being “difficult.” Remember how Sean Penn threw punches at paparazzi and smashed cameras on the ground? But somehow his rights weren’t stripped and given away to his mom.

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@darcyhernandez8133 2025-04-24

“Happy Leif Erikson Day” - Patrick Star ⭐️ 🐟

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@Tygerlilly80 2025-04-24

I dont get the part of “you are crazy and cant go to bathroom alone” and “work all day everyday for years” being in the same logic. Isn’t making legally “disabled” person work and take their money is abuse and against the law?

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@whitneeday6548 2025-04-26

I am a proud guardian for two incredible individuals with developmental disabilities, and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Watching their lives grow and transform for the better has been one of the greatest honors of my life. My philosophy is simple: I treat them exactly how I would want to be treated if I were in their place—with dignity, respect, and genuine care. I don’t do it for money; I don’t make a dime. I do it because their lives deserve to be filled with compassion, not control. It breaks my heart to see the pain caused by so many harmful conservatorships, and I am committed to being a part of the change.

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@aleksandravioletholubowicz1385 2025-05-13

When I think of Lief Ericksson, I think of the famous Viking explorer.

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@NatalieRiffe 2025-04-28

I hate how people turned around on Britney, saying that she needed to be in a conservatorship when they saw her social media posts. No one NEEDS a conservatorship even if someone is struggling mentally. No one should ever have their personal freedoms stripped away from them.

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@cmaden78 2025-04-25

Anger is NOT being "mentally incompetent"!!!!🤬

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@naturallywonder1279 2025-04-27

What is sad to me, is that they have surrounded Britney in drama for almost 30 years now....almost 30 years!!! She is so much stronger than what meets the eye.

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