Britney Spears’s conservator condemns singer’s father for ‘misrepresenting’ conversation about placing star under psychiatric hold
Jodi Montgomery asked Jamie Spears, once again, to step down from daughter’s conservatorship
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Your support makes all the difference.Britney Spears’s conservator, Jodi Montgomery, has condemned the singer’s father Jamie for allegedly “misrepresenting” a conversation the pair had about the star’s mental health.
Jamie had claimed that Montgomery had described his daughter as “mentally sick” and told him she wanted to place Britney under a 5150 psychiatric hold. 5150 is the number of the section of the Welfare and Institutions Code in the US, which allows a person with a mental illness to be detained against their will for a 72-hour psychiatric hospitalisation.
Now, in a statement obtained by Variety, Montgomery has defended herself over Jamie’s claims and asked him, once again, to step down from his daughter’s conservatorship and “work on a healthy, supportive father-daughter relationship”.
“Ms Montgomery implores Mr Spears to stop the attacks,” the statement said. “It does no good; it only does harm. We all need to focus on one thing, and one thing only – the health, well-being and best interests of Britney Spears.”
Jamie is the conservator of Britney’s estate, managing all financial decisions, while Montgomery is the singer’s conservator of her person, managing all personal and medical decisions.
An attorney for Montgomery, Laurieann Wright, also told Variety: “Ms Montgomery does have concerns about Ms Spears’ ‘recent behaviour and overall mental health’, as set forth in Jamie Spears’s Declaration dated August 6, 2021. Due to medical privacy, Ms Montgomery cannot go into those concerns with any further detail except to say that having her father Jamie Spears continuing to serve as her Conservator instead of a neutral professional fiduciary is having a serious impact on Ms Spears’s mental health.”
Montgomery denies claims that she suggested the singer be placed under a psychiatric hold.
“Mr Spears’s declaration misrepresents what Ms Montgomery said to him in relation to a potential 5150 psychiatric hold for Ms Spears,” the statement said. “At no time did Ms. Montgomery express to Mr Spears that Ms Spears would currently qualify for such a hold.
“The concern that Ms Montgomery did raise to Mr Spears during their telephone call is that forcing Ms Spears to take the stand to testify or to have her evaluated would move the needle in the wrong direction for her mental health.”
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