Yahoo Finance Netflix releases trailer for Britney Spears documentary: 'I deserve to have the same rights'
Another Britney Spears doc is heading to TV screens.
On Wednesday, Netflix released a trailer for "Britney vs. Spears," a day after confirming a documentary about the pop star was coming from the streaming giant with a teaser video.
"Hi my name is Britney Spears. I called you earlier. I’m calling again because I just wanted to make sure that during the process of eliminating the conservatorship…," Spears says in the teaser clip, noted as audio from a voicemail Spears left for a lawyer on Jan. 21, 2009.
The trailer, running a little more than a minute long, shares more of Spears' words combined with interview clips from lawyers, medical experts and other parties examining the conservatorship.
"I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does," Spears voice says in voiceover. "It's been 13 years and it's enough."
"Britney vs. Spears," directed by Erin Lee Carr, will hit Netflix Sept. 28, the day before the pop star's next hearing.
"This is a two-and-a-half years-long investigative process into the conservatorship," Carr told the Los Angeles Times when asked the difference between her documentary and the New York Times' and FX documentary "Framing Britney Spears." "There has been an amazing amount of coverage, but that’s a really long time to be focused on this. We wanted to be the definitive place to understand the beginning, middle and hopefully what we will find out as the end of this saga."
The "Britney vs. Spears" trailer arrives two weeks after a major breakthrough for Spears in the conservatorship that controls her finances and important life decisions. On Sept. 7, her father, James "Jamie" Spears, filed a petition to end his daughter's conservatorship that he has controlled at least in part for the last 13 years.
The move was a dramatic change by Jamie Spears, who has argued in court documents for years that his daughter was not ready to be free of guardianship over her person and her estate, and that he was the best person for the role of co-conservator.
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However, the pop star has accused her father of "abusive" practices, has refused to perform as long as he is in charge of her life, and said she was "afraid" of him.
Judge Brenda Penny, the probate judge who oversees the case, will have the final say on whether to end Britney Spears' conservatorship.
A petition from the singer's attorney, Mathew Rosengart, to remove Jamie from his role is set to be heard at the next hearing in the case, on Sept. 29. It is not clear yet how Jamie's petition will affect that schedule.
Meanwhile, the "Circus" singer has been vocal on social media about her personal life, announcing on Sept. 12 she was engaged her boyfriend of four years, Sam Asghari. Days later, Spears shocked fans by deleting her Instagram page, but she reinstated it on Monday.
On Tuesday, the 39-year-old took to her page to wish a happy birthday to her two teenage sons, Sean and Jayden, whom she shares with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
"My kids are very private which I love but I will tell you they are both extremely talented and I’m so incredibly blessed to have these two little men in my life," she wrote. "And if they’re reading this … which I’m pretty sure they’re not … I love you two little devils so much."
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Renewed interest in the pop star and that state of her conservatorship was first sparked by "Framing Britney Spears," which launched on Hulu in February.
The probing documentary spurred conversations from fans and celebrities alike about mental health issues and the inappropriate treatment of the star by unrelenting media. It also highlighted the "Free Britney" movement – an army of activists who say they are fighting against all abusive conservatorships, not just Britney Spears'.
In June, Spears broke her silence on the case while appearing in Los Angeles court remotely via telephone.
"I’m not here to be anyone’s slave," Spears said during the bombshell hearing. "I’ve lied and told the whole world I’m OK and I'm happy. It's a lie. I thought that maybe if I said it enough, I would maybe become happy because I've been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatized … I’m so angry it’s insane. And I'm depressed."
During her 20-minute speech, she also claimed that she was forced to use an IUD despite wanting to have more children, was forced to take lithium against her will after canceling her Las Vegas residency and argued that her conservators should be in "jail."
Contributing: Maria Puente, Hannah Yasharoff, Charles Trepany, Erin Jensen, Cydney Henderson, Elise Brisco
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Britney Spears Netflix documentary trailer released: See the footage
