
But what actually happened to Britney post-crash? Fans are still loyal and curious about the pop star in this shiny new year of 2018 and want to know all they can about her. She's often used as an example of what not to do for young stars nowadays. Unfortunately for her, the breakdown was public and legendary. The pressures of her high-octane lifestyle and the physical and mental toll on her body began to build up before she finally broke. Through her popularity, she revived interest in teen pop in the ’90s and earned the title Princess of Pop.īut as successful and glamorous as she was, Britney is best known for her meltdown in 2007.

She rapidly rose through the ranks and topped all the charts, producing lasting hits such as Baby Hit Me One More Time, Oops… I Did It Again and Toxic. In May, Britney’s longtime manager, Larry Rudolph, claimed that the pop star’s medications had stopped working around the time that her father fell ill.’80s baby Britney Spears grew up doing stage performances and television shows as a child before she signed a record deal and entered the music industry on the big stage as a fresh young teenager with a new sound and great looks. It was not clear for whom the evaluation was planned. In May, a judge in Britney’s conservatorship case ordered a 730 expert evaluation, a process usually used to determine the mental health and competence of a parent in a divorce case. Britney slammed reports that she was committed against her will before she left treatment at the end of that month. This past April, she checked into a mental health facility, reportedly due to the stress of her father’s illness. Montgomery will reportedly fill the role until January 31, 2020, at which point it’s speculated that Jamie will try to renew the role. Jamie served as the pop star’s conservator since 2008, but stepped down after the alleged altercation with Britney’s son, requesting that the singer’s care manager, Jodi Montgomery, step in for him temporarily. For a while, Kevin maintained custody of the children until Britney stabilised after her widely publicised breakdown. Picture: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Imagesīritney filed for divorce from the former dancer in November 2006. I had a sliding-glass door and I kept saying, ‘There’s nobody over there, why do you keep opening up the blinds?’ Well, I found out days later why he was opening the blind because a photographer was hiding there to take pictures,” she added. “I had blinds at the side of the salon back then. “She had two bodyguards, supposedly keeping an eye out to make sure the paparazzi were not getting any pictures and one of them kept opening the blinds,” Tognozzi recalled. “I said, ‘No, you don’t,’ (and) she said, ‘Oh yes, I do.’” Tognozzi says she tried to talk Spears out of the stunt to no avail. “And of course, I said: ‘What for?’ And they proceeded to come in, she sat on my chair, I said, ‘What’s up, can I help you?’ She said, ‘I want to shave my hair off.’” “We looked out and it’s a bunch of white lights flashing and somebody knocked on the door because we always keep the door locked saying: ‘Hey, open the door, Britney Spears wants to come in,’” she recalled. “We were cleaning up and there was a bunch of flashing outside lights and we were wondering, ‘Uh oh, what happened, police, ambulance?’

Picture: Bauer Griffin/MEGAĪccording to Tognozzi, Spears arrived at the salon around closing time.
