Britney Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart speaks after a hearing at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on September 29. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Britney Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart praised the #FreeBritney movement this afternoon in helping to lead to the suspension of the singer’s father as her conservator.
“It’s been a lot of hard work, it’s been intense. I’m proud, Britney’s proud,” Rosengart said during a news conference after the court hearing in Los Angeles. “I think the support of the #FreeBritney movement has been instrumental. To the extent that it allowed my firm to carry the ball across the finish line, I thank them as well.”
More on the #FreeBritney movement: In 2009, Spears superfan Megan Radford read a blog post about her idol’s new legal arrangement, and something didn’t feel right.
So Radford staged a one-woman protest outside the star’s concert in Dallas, wearing a T-shirt she’d made herself, emblazoned with a quirky slogan: “Free Britney.”
“I was all alone … I think some people definitely thought I was a nut,” Radford told CNN this summer. But, she added, “when you really care about a human, it’s not that much bigger of a step to start advocating for her rights.”
Radford, 34, who said she never “grew out” of her adolescent love for Spears, had never heard of a conservatorship before. The Spears fans around her had little concern about the cause, and the phrase on her clothing wasn’t a hashtag yet — just a couple of words she’d read on a fansite.
