She may be “Dancing Till the World Ends” – but Britney Spears is also spinning out of control.
Once the biggest pop star in the world, Spears, 43, now largely stays confined to her Los Angeles area home, rarely venturing out into public and surrounded by hired help.
“She has people like staff, security guards, assistants, no real friends,” an insider revealed to Page Six/The Post.
It’s a far cry from Spears’ world-dominating career in pop music and culture, which saw her go from ubiquitous teen star to train wreck, then fight her way back to the top with a series of hugely successful shows and albums.
But since the 2023 end of her marriage to model Sam Asghari and the breakdown of her last ill-advised relationship with deadbeat boyfriend Paul Soliz, she’s been largely alone and – worryingly – refusing what friends say is much-needed help for mental health issues. The last time Spears was photographed in public was in May.
For anyone who has encountered Spears in the last couple of years, it has largely been through Instagram. While it remains Spears’ sole connection to the outside world, her bizarre, often naked or semi-clad social media videos, improvised dance moves and often incoherent captions have most who see them worried for her.
Those closest to her tell us they are desperate to help – but also claim Spears doesn’t realize anything is wrong and the law can’t help them.
“Her behavior is just like you see online – she has moments of clarity and moments where it feels like a roller coaster. She’s still the sweetest, kindest person,” one source told Page Six, making it clear they were only speaking out in order to help her.
They added: “We’re always concerned about Britney and her well-being and making sure if she’s okay. The question is ‘how do we help her?”
Page Six/The Post has reached out to a rep for Britney.
Sources say the biggest issue surrounds the end of Spears’ oppressive 13-year-conservatorship in 2021. That court order had placed Spears under the complete control of her father, Jamie Spears, and a lawyer. She was not able to access her own finances and has claimed she was not allowed to make everyday decisions for herself most adults take for granted, such as who she dated or was friends with.
The conservatorship was lifted after lobbying by the global, fan-fueled #FreeBritney movement. Since a judge freed her, Britney has regained full control over her life and full control of her fortune, estimated to be between $40-60 million. It also means she no longer has to be mentally evaluated.
“She is a free woman, and because a judge never looked at her medical history when they freed her from this conservatorship, we’re seeing what this looks like in the public eye right now,” another insider familiar with the case said, adding: “We try to help and support, but ultimately you can only lead the horse to water.”
“There is no continued care program [since] she got out of the conservatorship,” the source revealed. “She doesn’t have to do therapy and she doesn’t think she has a problem.
“The law in California is that you cannot force anyone for a mental evaluation.”
Since the conservatorship was lifted Spears appeared at first to be on the up. She and Asghari tied the knot in June 2022 with Madonna, Paris Hilton, Selena Gomez and Drew Barrymore in attendance. She released her best-selling memoir, “The Woman In Me,” and new music with Elton John and Will.i.am.
But then cracks started to appear. Asghari filed for divorce in August 2023 (it was finalized a year later). He has since spoken very little about what happened between them and what went wrong.
Spears has since used Instagram as her lifeline, giving fans a glimpse into her day-to-day life. But there have been many red flags — like the time she appeared dancing with knives in her kitchen, in September, 2023. She later clarified they were props. More recently, clips Spears shared appeared to show dog waste on the floor of her home. In other videos she manically twirls for the camera, which cuts to costume changes or show her lip synching.
On Thursday, Spears appeared with her loose blonde locks, red lips and an open back red dress, twirling in high heels to a remix to Phil Collins’ breakup song, “In the Air Tonight” with Michael Jackson’s vocals spliced into it.
In another clip from the same reel, the pop-star strutted in a gold mini dress and in a crop top and wide brimmed brown hat while appearing to sing, then held a rose close to her chest.
In another positive development, the singer and mom-of-two, recently reconciled with her sons, Jayden James, 19 and Sean Preston, 20 – whom she shares with Federline, who is releasing the upcoming memoir, “You Thought You Knew.
However, Sean and Jayden were pictured at a family gathering with Spears’ younger sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, and her daughters Maddie and Ivey earlier this week, but Britney was nowhere in sight.
Her immediate family are seemingly still at an arm’s length, nearly four years after the conservatorship was officially terminated.
The “Stronger” singer has a “nonexistent” relationship with her father with no sign of reconciling, sources recently told Us Weekly.
She and her mother, Lynne, 70, speak “here and there,” a source told Page Six/The Post, but their relationship is also rocky. Britney has previously claimed Lynn was involved in starting the conservatorship to begin with and “ruined my life,” in online posts which have since been deleted.
As Page Six/The Post previously revealed, Spears’ brother, Bryan, 38, came to stay with her following her split from Asghari and earlier this month it was reported Spears is planning on meeting up with her Jamie Lynn, 34, after a public fall out in 2022.
Meanwhile, others told us the star is “hurting” following the break-up from Soliz for the second time in April.
The ex-convict moved out of the Grammy award winning singer’s Los Angeles-area home, where he had lived during their romance, insiders told TMZ at the time.
“She’s hurting,” a second source familiar with Soliz told Page Six/The Post.
“I don’t know if she was in love with Paul Soliz. It’s hard to trust — she has a trust issue. She probably trusted Paul and he deceived her.”
The Kentwood, Louisiana-raised singer has been unlucky with the men in her life. She married childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander, 44, in a 2004 Las Vegas wedding, which was annulled 55 hours later.
That same year she married Kevin Federline and they started a family. Just two months after the birth Jayden, Britney filed for divorce in November 2006, and it was finalized the following year. It was in the summer of that year, 2007, Britney first started to show signs things weren’t alright. She shaved her head, attacked paparazzi – who followed her every move – with an umbrella and appeared to be spiraling out of control.
She later wrote in her autobiography: “I am willing to admit that in the throes of severe postpartum depression, abandonment by my husband, the torture of being separated from my two babies … I’d begin to think in some ways like a child.”
These incidents are what led to the conservatorship which would define the next stage of Britney’s life. While under the conservatorship she was still a successful co-parent of her kids, appeared one on season as a judge on singing competition show ‘The X Factor” and grossed over $130m in sales of live shows in Las Vegas.
But all the fame and money can’t compete with family.
Jayden, 19, allegedly initiated reconnecting with his mother, with an insider previously telling Page Six/The Post: “Britney and Jayden have had a close bond since he was very young, so slowly getting into their old groove has felt special and [healing for] both of them.”
Britney and Sean, meanwhile, are “slowly building more trust,” a source previously told Page Six/The Post.
Another source says Spears doesn’t have to be famous and live in the spotlight because the public demands it. With all she has achieved, she is entitled to live life on her terms.
“Britney does whatever she wants,” the source said.