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As the #FreeBritney movement grows louder and louder, more folks from the pop titan’s past have come forward to share their experience with the star, including dancer Valerie Moise, who worked with her during her colossal tour, The Circus Starring Britney Spears, in 2009.
On Tuesday (August 10), Moise took to Instagram Story to share an incident with Spears, admitting that the singer was once forced to perform at a venue, where there was weed in the air. "I remember crying backstage when Miss B did not want to perform because there was a lot of weed smoke in the audience," the dancer wrote of one show on the world tour with the superstar. "They dragged her by her arms back to the stage anyway. She didn't want to perform because if the conservatorship caught drugs in her system they would take away her kids."
Fans have since dug up the performance clip, where Spears is seen not performing choreography at the end of her song, "Radar," in Vancouver 2009. Afterward, the show, which was held at the General Motors Place, was stopped and an announcer took to the speaker system to let the audience know that it was a non-smoking venue. The singer made reference to the weed at the very end of the concert, yelling, "Drive safe, don't smoke weed and rock out with your c*cks out. Peace, motherf*ckers."
The latest revelation of the treatment that Spears has received from her handlers comes as she and her new legal team are pushing to remove her father, Jamie Spears, from her 13-year conservatorship. Last Monday, Matthew Rosengart, requested an expedited hearing to suspend Jamie from the legal arrangement. James Spears hit back and argued that he "has dutifully and faithfully served as the conservator of his daughter’s estate without any blemishes on his record," as per court filings. He also said that Rosengart "does not (and cannot) specify what the wrongdoing is" to prompt such a suspension. Rosengart’s request has since been denied by the judge on the case.