Britney Spears approved to speak at June 23 conservatorship hearing

A lot has been said about Britney Spears, especially since The New York Times Presents: Framing Britney Spears documentary dropped in February, and now the 39-year-old pop star will speak for herself.

The unauthorized doc centered around Spears's unfair treatment by the media over the years and her fans efforts to "free Britney" from the 2008 conservatorship that gave her father, Jamie, control over personal life and career finances—a case still ongoing in court. 

The Associated Press provided an update Tuesday: 

"Spears’ court-appointed attorney, Samuel Ingham III, said in a hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court that she had asked to speak to the court soon, and agreed with Judge Brenda Penny on a June 23 date. He did not say what she would specifically like to say. It would be the first known time in more than two years that the 39-year-old pop star has spoken in court. The last time, on May 10, 2019, the courtroom was sealed. None of what she said became public."

According to a thorough timeline put together by The New York Times earlier this year, Ingham asserted last summer that Spears wanted to remove her father a judge declined to remove Jamie as her head conservator. In November, a judge denied an immediate removal but extended Jodi Montgomery's temporary role through September 2021. (Montgomery had stepped in back in September 2019 due to Jamie's own health concerns.)

On March 22, a petition was filed by Spears's legal team to make Montgomery her permanent conservator.