Is Britney Spears Being Held Captive? Probably Not

At the beginning of the month, Britney Spears checked herself into a mental health institution. Or did she? A new report by Newsweek says she could be being held against her will.

 A Tuesday episode of Britney’s Gram podcast revealed a concerning voicemail from an unnamed, former member of Spears’ legal team who claimed the pop icon has been held against her will in a facility since early January, and there’s no telling when she’ll be released.

Seriously, that’s what this is? Newsweek wrote a whole article based on what’s basically unfounded conjecture from a podcast? They used to be a respected outlet for journalism and now they’re they scraping the bottom of the barrel like they’re me or something. Frankly, I don’t need the competition. Stay in your lane, Newsweek.

Another clue that led the podcast hosts to the assumption Spears is being held against her will is the resignation of her former co-conservator Andrew Wallet. The lawyer resigned from his position on Spears’ estate in March after 10 years, asking a court to grant him immediate release in passionate wording. “Substantial detriment, irreparable harm and immediate danger will result to the conservatee and her estate if the relief requested herein in not granted on an ex parte basis,” he stated, as reported by The Blast.

This is a big thing on social media, because it’s like a less batshit version of QAnon that has a chance of being true. Not a great one, but better odds than Donald Trump being on the side of a pedophile network that’s interested in bringing it down is all I’m saying.

That’s actually kind of interesting, but doesn’t really mean anything. If Lynne Spears knew that her daughter was being held unnecessarily against her will she’d probably just come right out and say it, this isn’t exactly the Kennedy assassination here.

The social media crazy is worth it, though.

That is some outfit. Do they sell those in the gift shop?

I’m sure we’ll hear more about this in the coming days and weeks. They discussed it today on The Talk, so tomorrow it could make it all the way to a show people actually watch.