'Their goal is to make me feel like I'm crazy,' Britney Spears tells court

Speaking for about 10 minutes on Wednesday (July 14), Britney Spears, 39, said she had always been 'extremely scared of my dad'. Photo: Reuters

Singer Britney Spears on Wednesday (July 14) won the right to choose her own lawyer to help her end a 13-year-long conservatorship and tearfully pleaded for the court to oust her father immediately from the role of controlling her business affairs. Her father, Jamie Spears, has been a major figure in the conservatorship since he set it up in 2008 when his daughter had a mental health breakdown. He is currently the sole person in charge of her US$60mil estate.

"You're allowing my dad to ruin my life," Spears told the Los Angeles judge by phone. "I have to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse," she added.