A gatvol Britney Spears, in a furious Instagram post, said she has “quit” doing live performances and slammed her father’s control over her affairs.
For weeks the superstar has been pleading with a judge in Los Angeles to free her from the years-long conservatorship largely managed by her father, Jamie.
Late Saturday she took to Instagram in a new, public demonstration of her anger.
“I’m not gonna be performing on any stages anytime soon with my dad handling what I wear, say, do, or think,” she wrote.
Instead, she said, she will share her own dance videos “from my living room” instead of from a stage in Las Vegas.
Britney, who shot to fame in her teens, suffered a public 2007 breakdown, when the shaven-headed star attacked a paparazzo’s car at a gas station.
The following year, a California court placed her under a legal guardianship largely governed by her father.
Last month, the singer made an impassioned plea for her situation to change, alleging that she had been prevented from having a contraceptive IUD removed, despite wanting more children, and forcefully put on medication that made her feel “drunk”.
Britney also referenced recent documentaries about her plight.
“I didn’t like the way the documentaries bring up humiliating moments from the past... I’m way past all that and have been for a long time!" she wrote.
Last Wednesday she scored a major victory in her legal battle after a judge ruled she could appoint her own lawyer.
The lawyer appointed by a court following her breakdown asked to step down, as had the financial management company that was set to assume joint control of her estate with her father.
Britney’s long-time manager Larry Rudolph has also quit.
Her father, however, has indicated that he will not step down.