They also had his access to powerful people as a selling point. I think some of Harry and Meghan’s plans were based on the idea that he could use his family to get in direct contact with world leaders. But if the UK tabloids are to be believed, he was uninvited to a reception for the world leaders who attended the…

California has a “jungle primary” system, so the race actually ended up being between her and another democrat, Kevin de León. She cried ageism any time someone questioned her potential mental fitness for the role. It was infuriating.

I agree. The switch to the author’s personal narrative is abrupt and feels incomplete—possibly because the author themself hasn’t completely thought through the hows and whys of their relationship with their ex-husband and its decline.

I’m surprised to hear she thinks it was all her mom’s idea. I had always assumed it was someone at her label or on her management team who gave the family the idea of the conservatorship. There were plenty of entertainment industry people who stood to lose money from Britney Spears’s erratic behavior but wouldn’t have…

Why in the world would he volunteer to go to jail, unless he was just feeling out the Roys to see if they’d protect him.

Well that’s good to know. I guess my fear is that the school librarian may have gone the way of the school nurse, with most schools citing budget cuts as a reason not to have one.

I hope you’re right, but I suspect that most school librarians these days are parent or community volunteers, rather than people who are affiliated or even familiar with the American Library Association. I’d love for someone to tell/show me I’m wrong, though.

After reading this comment, I was curious about about Elizabeth Ragsdale and saw that the Los Angeles Times recently ran an interview with her:

And it’s weird because it’s such a reach. Brittany Murphy may have gotten shit from the tabloids and awful people like Perez Hilton, but her life wasn’t an open book the way Spears’s was. Even people who didn’t follow celebrity gossip knew that Britney Spears was having a meltdown. I don’t think you could say the same…

I liked her version of Emma. She played the character exactly as I imagined her when I read the book.

This article and some of the comments remind me of the reaction some of my classmates had to the girl who was ranked second in my year at school. People she barely knew hated her guts because how dare she be so intelligent and academically successful, while also being conventionally attractive and not socially…

Same. I figured the subheader was a typo, but was hoping it wasn’t. I love the mental image of her taking courses to become a mediator and the idea of her being called in as the mediator in some mundane business dispute.

Agreed and my bet is that this suit gets settled out of court with NDAs all around.

“So you’re choosing A BABY over US?”

I don’t understand why people are worried about potential long-term effects of the vaccine (for which, you noted, there is no precedent), but not of the virus. Why aren’t they afraid of being someone who catches COVID and never fully recovers? How do they know that people who had the disease aren’t going to have…

I’m curious if there will be any changes made to the law surrounding conservatorships. For me, one of the more startling aspects of this case is that Britney Spears had a court-appointed lawyer (instead of the one she tried to hire when the conservatorship first stared) who got paid (handsomely) out of her estate.…

Didn’t she start out as a guest star rather than a series regular on F&G?

Right, so can Britney legally hire her own attorney at this point?
In the beginning of this conservatorship, we know that she hired her own attorneys and that they were summarily dismissed by the court. Then the court appointed Ingham.

I will never understand how the judge who approved the conservatorship, Reva Goetz, came to the conclusion that Jamie Spears would be an appropriate conservator for his daughter. In The New York Times article about the case, it was clear that the man barely had his own life together and was definitely not a good…

The New Yorker had an article about this a few years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights