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How Star Trek Was Destroyed By Hollywood, The Full History Of Its Ruination
By Joshua Tyler
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Star Trek has never been at a lower point. The franchise’s current batch of shows receives almost no ratings, and the brand’s total mismanagement has been so bad that it’s driven away existing Trekkies while failing to attract any new viewers.
This is far worse than having no show on the air at all, since a lack of content often builds anticipation and hunger for more. On the other hand, year after year of producing terrible content that actively seeks to alienate fans, breeds hatred and contempt, while destroying any trust or interest in the brand.
What happened? What went wrong? How did we end up in this Star Trek hellscape? To find the answer, we have to look into the past.
Paramount Began Planning Star Trek’s Destruction In 2017
The year is 2017. Star Trek had been off television for 12 years. The last Trek release, Star Trek: Beyond, turned out to be a box-office disappointment.
So, Paramount devised a bold new plan to revitalize Star Trek with a prequel series. Oh, wait, they’d just done that. The entire 2009 Star Trek movie franchise was a prequel.
But that was on the big screen; this time, the twist was that the prequel would be a series. Oh, wait, they already did that, too. It was called Star Trek: Enterprise, and Paramount pulled the plug after four seasons.
That very recent past seemingly forgotten, Paramount moved forward with another prequel, their third attempt in a row at making a Star Trek prequel happen. Third time was not the charm.
Brian Fuller And The Rise Of Alex Kurtzman
The Disco era began with the debut of Star Trek: Discovery in 2017. Discovery was created by a man named Brian Fuller.
Fuller was a well-known television writer and producer. He’d written for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager in the 90s. Since then, he’d established himself as a much sought-after talent, creating critically acclaimed series like Pushing Daisies and Hannibal.
He had the right resume, and so, Paramount hired him to create a new Star Trek series. His initial pitch was to do something serialized, with “diversity” as a focus, and a dark and gritty tone inspired by Game of Thrones. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you probably already see the problem. That’s right, Brian Fuller wanted to turn Gene Roddenberry’s bright and hopeful view of the future into a Game of Thrones knockoff.
Fuller worked on the show for 9 months. His tenure was marked by missed deadlines and ever-expanding budgets. Paramount clashed with him over his desire to reboot Star Trek into a Game of Thrones series. The company wanted its brand to stick with the traditions that made Star Trek work, and Fuller wanted to warp it into something entirely different. After these struggles and amid much controversy, Fuller essentially left the production while maintaining credit for the show.
Up til this point, Paramount had made good decisions. Hiring Fuller didn’t work out, but on paper, it should have. When Fuller failed to get what Star Trek was as a brand, Paramount made another good decision by getting rid of him.
Getting rid of Fuller was the last good Star Trek decision Paramount would ever make.
They replaced Fuller with Gretchen J. Berg & Aaron Harberts. Berg & Hoberts were Fuller’s people. They’d worked with him on past projects and were already helping him make Star Trek: Discovery. The ideas Fuller was implementing, the terrible ideas that got him essentially fired, were also their ideas. So they stayed the course and kept working on their Game of Thrones-ification of Star Trek.
Eventually, Berg & Hoberts were also fired, but not for trying to ruin Star Trek. It happened amidst accusations of abuse towards the show’s writers.
Still, this was Paramount’s chance to course-correct and save Trekkies from the Game of Thrones-ification of Star Trek. Instead of doing that and fixing things, Paramount did something worse.
Alex Kurtzman was put in their place. Kurtzman was the man most responsible for the worst of the recent Star Trek movies, Star Trek: Into Darkness. He now held the future of the entire franchise in his hands. He would remain in charge not just of Discovery, but of the entire Star Trek franchise, throughout the Disco era.
Star Trek: Discovery Launches And Is Hated
By the time Alex Kurtzman was hired, production was pretty far along on Star Trek: Discovery. Kurtzman made tweaks to satisfy some of Paramount’s concerns, but much of what the show would be was already written in stone.
Star Trek: Discovery was the most expensive Star Trek series ever produced, at the time. Paramount could have trashed it and taken a tax write-off, but that’s tough to do with so much money on the line. So they released it.
The show was poorly received by fans. Critics initially praised it, but critics rarely watch shows beyond the first one or two episodes. They ignore it after that, which makes their reviews meaningless.
Reports of Discovery’s ratings were vague and unreliable. Most indications were that after an initially strong debut, people began abandoning the show.
Paramount and their new best friend, Alex Kurtzman, took note and tried making big changes for season 2. They brought in Anson Mount to play Christopher Pike, and Mount was fantastic. Unfortunately, the rest of the show was still the show it was always designed to be. Adding one good character to a terrible show cannot save it.
Paramount Activates Quarantine Protocols For Star Trek: Discovery
Stuck with a show no one liked, Paramount did the only thing they could do besides cancel it: They quarantined the entire series, separating it from the rest of Star Trek. They did that by time-jumping Star Trek: Discovery so far into the future that nothing it did could have any further impact on the franchise.
They created a spinoff called Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for Pike to rescue him from Discovery’s sinking ship. Though his new series was technically an extension of the Disco-verse, it quickly set out to differentiate itself from Discovery and the mistakes it had made.
Unfortunately, Alex Kurtzman was still in charge, and he simultaneously set out to make Strange New Worlds his own, which meant he made it stupid. He made it his stated mission to work only with people who didn’t actually like Star Trek, intending to hollow out the brand and wear it like a skinsuit.
So, instead of hiring serious science fiction writers who might have a fondness for Gene Roddenberry’s work, he hired Strange New Worlds and Discovery writers based on diversity quotas. Those writers, who care nothing about Star Trek or science fiction, then turned the show into a playground for theater kids rather than Star Trek fans. After a strong first-season debut, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds devolved into a series of joke episodes and ridiculous plot arcs, which chased away initially optimistic Trek fans.
Star Trek Starts Winning Razzies
That should have been it for the Disco era. The franchise forked away from it; Paramount was working on other Star Trek shows. Discovery limped onward but was soon canceled after five seasons of disinterest.
However, Alex Kurtzman had been trying to make a Star Trek: Section 31 spinoff since the first season of Discovery. His plan centered on a widely disliked Star Trek: Discovery character, played by actress Michelle Yeoh.
Fans hated the idea, and no one at Paramount seemed particularly excited about it. They prioritized Strange New Worlds over it, and while a Section 31 series was announced, it never went into full production. Kurtzman’s last update stated clearly that Section 31 was now a very low priority.
And then, in March of 2023, Michelle Yeoh won an Oscar. In April of 2023, Star Trek: Section 31 entered full production as a feature film. Oscar-winning tends to have that effect.
In January of 2024, Star Trek: Section 31 arrived as a direct-to-streaming movie on Paramount+. It was the first Star Trek movie released in nearly a decade. It’s now the worst-reviewed movie in the entire Star Trek canon, with audiences giving it an appalling 16% fresh score. It received three Razzie nominations: Worst Picture, Worst Actress, and Worst Screenplay.
Star Trek: Section 31 begins when a spitwad flies across the screen, tracing the shape of the Starfleet logo. Viewers would later learn that Spitwad is actually the movie’s hero ship, but that knowledge doesn’t make it any better. The movie revolves around Michelle Yeoh’s Philippa Georgiou, a character responsible for numerous acts of genocide. And she’s not sorry about any of it.
There are other characters in Section 31, but they’re no better. The super cool Section 31 spy team introduces itself by shouting at each other, issuing threats, and posing for the camera. Like Georgiou, they’re also mostly serial killers, and they’re all pretty upset they aren’t able to do more killing.
Luckily, this mission to do a thing takes place in the exact same space bar they’re already standing in. Paramount didn’t need to build any other sets for their heist. What a financially fortuitous coincidence.
There’s a confusing fistfight in front of a bad green screen rendering of a blurry tunnel. A murder mystery that no one cares about. A robot gets incapacitated by being kneed in the crotch.
Star Trek: Section 31 ends when Phillipa Georgiou genocides an entire universe on suspicion of possible mischief and then tells her team she’s going to kill them. If you still have doubts about the quality of Star Trek: Section 31’s writing, please enjoy this actual line of dialogue from the movie: “She died like she lived. By that you know what I mean.”
Star Trek Becomes A Zombie Franchise Thanks To Starfleet Academy
A disaster on the scale of Star Trek: Section 31 should have been the end of Alex Kurtzman. Paramount, however, continues funding his disasters. So enabled, Alex Kurtzman continued moving forward on one of his worst pet projects, Starfleet Academy.
The idea of a show centered around the Academy had been floating around for decades. It’s not something Trekkies ever really wanted, though, because the point of Star Trek is to be about professionals out exploring and not watching kids sitting in classrooms or flirting with each other in the cafeteria. Alex Kurtzman, however, having clearly demonstrated he didn’t really want existing fans, perhaps saw this as an opportunity to finally be rid of them.
Ratings for the show are self-reported by Paramount and so can’t be relied on. However, most evidence suggests no one is watching it. Some estimates have its total viewership as being under a million. Fans hate it beyond all measure, and Starfleet Academy has some of the lowest audience scores of anything currently airing on streaming.
Yet, somehow, Starfleet Academy was renewed for a second season and will continue. Why? I suspect money laundering. If you have a better explanation, I’d like to hear it.
Heroes Arose, But Alex Kurtzman Struck Them Down
It didn’t have to be this way. Even after Fuller’s plans failed, Paramount had ways to correct course.
Developing in parallel with the Disco-verse was a Star Trek animated series called Lower Decks, helmed by Rick & Morty alum Mike McMahan. Mike McMahan is a serious, lifelong Star Trek fan, and while technically his show was produced under Alex Kurtzman’s auspices, all indications are that Kurtzman had nothing to do with Lower Decks.
That allowed McMahan to stack his staff with serious writing talent, who knew the genre and knew everything about Star Trek. They took Star Trek seriously, and as a result, Lower Decks was a huge success, and it had nothing at all to do with the Disco-verse.
Alex Kurtzman rewarded McMahan’s success by canceling his show after five seasons and firing him. Paramount did nothing to stop him.
Tangential to the Disco-verse was the Picard-verse, a series vanity project Alex Kurtzman developed around Patrick Stewart’s Captain Picard character. The show was a disaster for two seasons until the third, when Paramount somehow convinced Kurtzman to turn the whole thing over to veteran TV showrunner and legit Star Trek fan Terry Matalas.
Matalas delivered the best Star Trek season of the modern Trek era. Matalas lobbied to be given more work, doing more Star Trek. Fans launched petitions to try and convince Paramount to hand the entire franchise over to him.
Alex Kurtzman, still with an iron grip on the franchise, responded by passing on Matalas and hiring more people who don’t like Star Trek to replace him on the franchise’s next projects, Section 31 and Starfleet Academy.
And that’s the current state of Star Trek. We’re left with dancing Klingon boy bands and rainbow vomit. Sure, the .001% of humans who spent their formative years as theater kids may like it. Is that really a demographic worth pursuing? It’s like five people, and four of them are named Skylar.
The Legacy Of Star Trek’s Disco Era
Brian Fuller achieved what he set out to achieve. He erased Star Trek and replaced it with an outer space Game of Thrones.
His plan culminated in a horrible Suicide Squad/Guardians of the Galaxy ripoff mashup with the Star Trek name slapped on it in hopes of tricking people into giving them money. Then it blossomed into a Dawson’s Creek knockoff with combadges.
Alex Kurtzman’s attempt replace Trekkies with new Trekkies who would like his slop, totally failed. He didn’t find replacements, because those replacements would have to be young women. Newsflash: Young women are never going to watch something called Star Trek.
And yet, despite no longer having an audience or a point for existing, Star Trek keeps going anyway. It’s become a zombie franchise that Paramount keeps making because that’s what franchises are supposed to do. Keep going.
Maybe it will keep going for a while. There doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it. So Star Trek fans have beamed away, and after years of abuse, they’re unlikely to return. No need to set the auto-destruct on your way out, Trekkies. Alex Kurtzman blew it up a long time ago.
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Taylor Frankie Paul’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives costars are hesitant to continue filming amid her dispute with ex Dakota Mortensen.
“The Mormon Wives cast [is] honestly terrified to film with Taylor right now,” a source exclusively tells Us Weekly, noting that production is “shut down” at the moment and “the women have made it clear they don’t want to be around her because they see her as a major liability.”
TMZ and People reported on Monday, March 16, that The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives producers paused filming on season 5 earlier this month following an alleged domestic dispute between Taylor, 31, and Dakota, 33. A Draper City Police Department spokesperson subsequently confirmed to Us that a “domestic assault investigation” involving the former couple is ongoing. (Per police, “allegations have been made in both directions” and “contact was made with involved parties on [February] 24th and 25th.”)
The insider told Us that, prior to the incident, the Mormon Wives cast “believed Taylor was in a better place” after she filmed her season of The Bachelorette and that their Hulu reality show “was heading in a different direction.”
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“Now, many of them feel they’ve moved past the point of dealing with this kind of behavior and simply don’t want to be put in that position again,” according to the source.
Us has reached out to representatives for Paul, Mortensen and Hulu.
Taylor previously had legal issues when she was arrested in February 2023 on domestic violence charges. She was initially charged with aggravated assault, two counts of domestic violence in the presence of a child, child abuse with injury and criminal mischief after the incident.
Dakota publicly defended Taylor at the time, and she ultimately agreed to plead guilty to aggravated assault, with the four charges being dismissed with prejudice. (Taylor told the “Call Her Daddy” podcast in September 2025 that the four other charges “were all dropped.”)
When The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives season 1 premiered in September 2024, Taylor opened up about the trauma of her arrest. (Body-camera footage taken from the night of her arrest was published shortly before the reality series debuted.)
Dakota Mortenson, Taylor Frankie Paul on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” Fred Hayes; Hulu/Disney; Courtesy Everett Collection
“Getting arrested, it was the worst night of my life. I ended up being charged with aggravated assault with three years of probation,” she reflected in 2024. “After the arrest, I was under so much stress. I was filmed leaving the jail and then that was immediately on the internet. It was a blessing in disguise. It helped me wake up.”
Taylor got together with Dakota following the end of her marriage to ex-husband Tate Paul in May 2022. Taylor and Dakota subsequently split in 2025 following his sexting scandal. (Taylor and Tate welcomed daughter Indy May, 8, and son Ocean, 5, before separating during the MomTok soft swinging scandal. Shen later welcomed son Ever True with Dakota in March 2024.)
Speaking to Us for a cover story earlier this month, Taylor acknowledged that navigating her split from Dakota has been challenging at times.
“It was hard because I’m, obviously, a part of that — it’s not like I am pointing the finger like, ‘He is [the toxic one.]’ It takes two to tango. We were just not progressing,” Taylor admitted to Us. “We like each other sometimes, and then we fight. It’s really hard to explain to people and unless you’ve been in that situation, it is hard to understand. If I could just snap out of it, trust me, I would. It’s just a lot harder said than done.”
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Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen’s ongoing issues have not only caused production on season 5 of Hulu’s “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” to shut down, but their mental stability is also now coming into question.
Per new reports, the exes and parents to son Ever, have been ordered for mental health evaluation following a domestic violence incident between the two.
Taylor Frankie Paul And Dakota Mortensen Reportedly Ordered To Undergo Psych Evaluations Following Domestic Violence Incident
According to TMZ, Mortensen has called the Utah Division of Child and Family Services multiple times alleging Paul has been physically abusive to their son, allegations that Paul vehemently denies.
Per the outlet, in late February, the constantly feuding exes got into a verbal altercation while inside Mortensen’s car after Paul reportedly spilled a drink. Inside sources shared that Mortensen became “enraged” and “got physical” with Paul, however, he called the police and told them that she was the one who assaulted him.
Following the incident, a source close to Paul told TMZ that Mortensen disappeared for weeks and ditched filming, which led to production being put on pause. However, sources with “Mormon Wives” said that filming stopped because cast members refused to film amid the domestic violence and child abuse allegations, despite production wanting to continue filming season 5.
Additionally, due to Mortensen repeatedly calling DCFS on Paul, alleging abuse, both are now required to undergo psychological evaluations.
When production on “Mormon Wives” resumes, it has not been decided what capacity, if any, Mortensen will be part of the show.
Domestic Violence Incident Revealed To Be Cause Of ‘Mormon Wives’ Shut Down
Shortly after reports surfaced that “Mormon Wives” season 5 had shut down production, new details emerged revealing it was due to an incident between Paul and Mortensen.
According to PEOPLE, the Draper City Police Department confirmed to the outlet that an open “domestic assault investigation” exists between Paul and Mortensen. Per the police department’s spokesperson, “allegations have been made in both directions” and “contact was made with involved parties on [Feb] 24th and 25th.”
An inside source connected to “Mormon Wives” confirmed the production pause. “They are not filming,” the source said. “Taylor [Frankie Paul] has some pretty serious stuff happening regarding her past, and they will see what happens. Until that resolves, they are off.”
Things are reportedly so serious that Paul’s fellow #MomTok members have all distanced themselves from her. “None of the women want to be associated with her,” the source told the outlet.
Paul and Mortensen were previously involved in a domestic violence incident in 2023 that resulted in her arrest, but the charges in the case were later dropped.
Ahead Of Her ‘Bachelorette’ Debut, Taylor Frankie Paul And Ex Dakota Mortensen Involved In Altercation
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Sources further added that production on the show is “taking the matter seriously and handling with caution.”
Viewers can see the ongoing issues between Paul and Mortensen on the recently released fourth season.
Paul Admitted Season 4 Of The Show Was ‘Extremely Hard’ To Watch
In an Instagram post, following the release of “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” season 4, Taylor Frankie Paul revealed the difficulties of filming the season.
“I for the first time sat down and watched this season, and it was extremely hard to do,” Paul began in the caption of the post. “These aren’t just story lines, these are our actual lives we are sharing. I’ll speak for myself on this, I’m not sharing to appease or switch ‘story lines’ for anyone’s entertainment.”
“A big reason I continue on is to potentially help someone,” she continued. “I know this because I’ve personally watched and listened to people’s experience and it helped me. Takes courage to share such vulnerable topics with an audience. My heart goes out to those around me that share and everyone else that continue to do so the hugs will always outweigh the hate for me.”
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Fans will have to wait to find out if the show’s frequently uttered phrase, “Will #MomTok survive this?” Result in the end of the group or make them stronger?
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Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
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Richins was declared guilty of first-degree aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder, forgery and insurance fraud in the overdose death of her husband, Eric Richins, 39, on March 4, 2022, at the couple’s home in Kamas, Utah.
Richins, 35, bowed her head as the first guilty verdict was read, showing almost no emotion.
At trial, prosecutors argued Richins poisoned her husband for financial gain.
Original story:
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Attorneys claimed that the witness shared text messages she exchanged with lead detective Jeff O’Driscoll, in which the cop threatened to serve her with a warrant for her arrest.
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“Make your life easier and answer our calls so we can prep you on what you will be asked. Otherwise, the next time I knock on your door, I’ll have a warrant and a catch pole for the dog,” O’Driscoll allegedly said in the texts, according to the documents.
Defense attorneys argued that the conversation was “blatant witness intimidation.” Additionally, prosecutors allegedly said they did not think O’Driscoll acted improperly in the exchange.
A second witness also claimed to the defense that they were harassed by investigator Travis Hopper.
According to text messages allegedly exchanged with Hopper, the investigator asked the witness to cooperate. After the witness referred him back to his original statement, the witness told Hopper that he could send any additional questions in writing.
“Investigator Hopper then threatened to withdraw previous immunity granted to this witness and submit him to prosecution if he does not agree to come in to discuss his testimony in person with the prosecution team,” the defense claimed.
The defense attorneys went on to claim that Utah Code prohibits threatening witnesses with harm, which includes “physical, emotional or economic injury or damage.” They added that threatening to arrest someone for not providing testimony ahead of trial would “suffice as ‘harm.’”
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Additionally, the attorneys said that the prosecutors violated the Victim and Witness Rights with the way they conducted the questioning.
“The defense is hereby requesting the Court to compel the prosecution to disclose any and all text messages, voice mails, recorded calls emails, or any other digital messaging with witnesses,” their request stated.
The prosecutors have not publicly responded to the filing and told KUTV that they will be dealing with the issue privately with the court. “We will be responding non-publicly with the Court, as is appropriate this close to jury selection,” Attorney Margaret Olson said, per the outlet.
Richins, 35, has been accused of fatally poisoning her husband, Eric Richins, by spiking his drink with fentanyl in March 2022. Additionally, she is facing multiple counts of forgery, mortgage fraud and insurance fraud for alleged actions she took before and after her husband’s death.
She became a local celebrity when she published a children’s book called Are You With Me?, which detailed her grieving process following her husband’s death.
Richins’ trial is scheduled to start in February. She has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges, according to ABC News.
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Pop star Britney Spears is getting some love from her former lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, who was by her side at the end of her approximately 13-year conservatorship, which was struck down by a judge in November 2021. Fans have continued to express concern for the “Toxic” singer’s health since that time, but things took a turn in early March when she was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence.
Britney Spears’ Former Lawyer Breaks Silence On Her Arrest
In a brief statement made to Us Weekly approximately two weeks after her arrest, Rosengart called the “Oops!… I Did It Again” singer an “icon” and shared that he will always be immensely “proud” of her and what she’s accomplished throughout her long career.
“It was my great honor to work with and protect Britney as her litigator, and I will always be proud of her and the work we did together, ranging from helping, at her request and direction, to restore her freedom, civil rights and civil liberties after a 13-year conservatorship that stripped her of those rights, to many other matters,” he said.
“Britney is and always will be an icon,” he continued. “While I do not have the facts concerning March 4, with freedom comes responsibility, and I was pleased to see that Britney will take the right steps and comply with the law. I’ll always care greatly about her and help and support her in any way I can.”
Inside Mathew Rosengart’s Role In Ending Her Conservatorship
After her court-appointed attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, resigned, the “Crossroads” actress retained the former federal prosecutor to represent her in her conservatorship battle. Rosengart was able to get her estranged father, Jamie Spears, suspended as her conservator two months before a Los Angeles judge decided to terminate the conservatorship entirely.
In addition to helping end her controversial guardianship, he also helped her obtain several lucrative deals, including her bestselling 2023 memoir, “The Woman In Me,” in which she opened up about her conservatorship in her own words.
In 2024, he stepped down after Britney and Jamie settled their court case.
Britney Spears Settled Her Conservatorship Case In 2024
In April 2024, Britney and Jamie finally settled their conservatorship case, finally ensuring Britney’s freedom once and for all. At the time, Rosengart also made a brief statement to Us Weekly, saying that it was an “honor” for him to work with the Princess of Pop in this regard.
“It has been our honor and privilege to represent, protect, and defend Britney Spears. Ms. Spears is and always will be an icon and a brilliant and brave artist of historic and epic proportion,” he said at the time. “Although the conservatorship was terminated in November 2021, her wish for freedom is now truly complete.”
As part of the settlement, Britney would no longer have to “attend or be involved with court or entangled with legal proceedings,” as was her wish.
“Britney Spears won when the court suspended her father, and Britney Spears won when her fundamental rights and civil liberties were restored,” he added.
Britney Said That She Felt Like A ‘Robot’ During Her Conservatorship
In “The Woman In Me,” the pop star compared herself to a “child-robot” and claimed that the conservatorship “stripped” her of her womanhood, turning her “into a child.”
“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”
Inside Britney Spears’ March 2026 DUI Arrest
On March 4, Britney was arrested near her home in Ventura County, California, after law enforcement officials suspected she was driving under the influence. Although she was released from jail the following day, she has a hearing scheduled for May 4.
“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” her rep said in a brief statement. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law, and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life. Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”
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