Lynne was far from a perfect mother, but Britney also has deeply rooted mental health issues causing her to act out in very strange ways. Blaming those mental health issues solely on the conservatorship and her parents is, in my view, reductive. Her parents didn't handle it well but I still believe their goal was to shield and protect Britney from self-harm and further embarrassment. Mental illness isn't anybody's fault. Not Britney's, not her parents It simply happened to her and they all struggled to find a way to control it. While I do think it's questionable how they made her work and perform during the conservatorship, I also think it might have been an effort to keep her "busy" and have a simulation of a structured, normal life. Without outside help and structure, Britney always spirals. We saw it in 2005-2008 and we are seeing it now in 2023-2026. For example, this was posted just today: Her questionable behavior always included nonsensical rambling, public nudity , choosing to invite dangerous and opportunistic men who are probably drug dealers in her home, a heightened sense of paranoia, substance abuse and self-medication. This was the same in 2007 as it is today. So clearly, some sort of outside influence is needed because Britney isn't mentally "all there" and it would be delusional to pretend otherwise. Yes, Britney's parents weren't good parents. They were quite messy, at times opportunistic and at times probably even abusive. But they also weren't the pure evil Britney is trying to portray them as. We have to keep in mind that Britney is a person with deep mental health issues and that her sense of reality is very easy to manipulate and distort. If on top of that she sits at home watching #FreeBritney YouTube videos of her, that can be very toxic. She is not in the right state of mind to separate fact from fiction, reality from conspiracy theory and thus I can't fully trust her either. Britney fans always look tor someone outside to blame for Britney's behavior. Her manager, her boyfriends, her family. I did the same thing too for years because I wanted to protect the "perfect and innocent" image of Britney I built up as a child. But the truth is, there is no one to blame for her behavior. Mental illness is mental illness. It happens, just like any other illness. In any case, this is a very sad situation and I hope and pray that one day Britney starts getting the help she needs. Then, when she is sober, clear minded and mentally stable I am interested in what she has to say. I just hope she survives this dark period she's been going through becuase I do worry for her life and safety watching her spiral. And that in itself proves that the conservatorship, as messy as it was, probably wasn't a mistake.