Britney Spears turned 43 on Monday but she claims in disturbing new Instagram videos that she's really 5 and moving to Mexico.
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00:00Britney Spears, we told you yesterday, celebrated on Monday her 43rd birthday and became officially single.
00:07Her divorce from Sam Asghari is final.
00:11She decided to post something last night, and I will tell you, before we play this, which we're about to do,
00:19I got a call from somebody last night who is connected to Britney, who was really alarmed by this video.
00:28That the way it was received, at least by this person, this was not a joke, this was serious.
00:34Yes, she's on her way to Mexico, she's there now, but this video that she posted, like you said,
00:42some people close to her are definitely alarmed. Some fans seem to think this is just Britney being Britney,
00:48but here's the video and then we'll get into why some of the people in her world are definitely alarmed.
00:55It's my birthday, I'm not turning 42, I'm turning 5 this year. I'm turning 5 years old and I have to go to kindergarten tomorrow.
01:07The paparazzi in pictures and the way they've illustrated me to be in some of it, I know I'm not perfect at all by any means,
01:16but some of it is extremely mean and cruel and that's why I've moved to Mexico.
01:24Right, so the moving to Mexico part, which I don't think is actually happening. Clearly she's going there to celebrate her birthday.
01:33She also referred to herself, said I'm not turning 42, I'm 5. The 5 part, alarming and maybe you want to say that's a joke,
01:41she's actually turning 43. I don't know, I mean, yes, she does videos where she's making these voices,
01:48where she speaks in these voices. There was, I don't know, when I saw it, it was disturbing.
01:53I mean, the person who called me said she's not joking. She actually in her head believes some of this stuff.
02:01Now, I don't know that. I'm not in her head. I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't know, but what I do know is that she's really been isolated.
02:09And, you know, I'm not trying to be a downer here, but she has been so isolated, you know, even before the divorce,
02:16because Sam wasn't there a lot toward the last six months. And, you know, when you are just constantly isolated,
02:23and people, you know, in the pandemic can understand this, that, you know, you get in your head and it becomes really alarming
02:33when it becomes a prolonged thing. And she is isolated a lot.
02:39Yeah, and I know her brother had been living with her for a while, though we haven't seen him around lately.
02:46So it does seem like she is pretty isolated. And I don't know who went to Mexico with her, but she boarded a private jet.
02:54And even how she got on the plane was a little alarming in that she had like a propane lighter with her.
03:03And I know this morning, you see it in her hand there.
03:06It's definitely possible that she had that because, you know, it was her birthday. Maybe they're going to light a cake
03:12and they want to light the candles on the plane. So it's possible they were going to use that maybe to light the candles.
03:18But, you know, as you can see in the photo, she does have people with her. It's not like she's going to Mexico by herself.
03:24And, you know, kind of what you guys touched on, like fans saw these videos of her and they didn't really feel like it was alarming.
03:32They felt these videos were her being silly. When she gets down in this like deep voice, it's her kind of like playing into a character.
03:40And when she's talking about being five years old, she's really just channeling, well fans think she's just channeling her inner child.
03:46She'll post like, you know, photos of like little of kids or like ballerinas on her social media.
03:53Like she's always channeling her inner child and people just think that's what she's talking about.
03:57But it's kind of just like a silly bit. And she's not really like when you watch the video, you don't think, oh my gosh, she's going to harm herself or she might harm others.
04:06It's kind of like an innocent little thing that she's doing.
04:10I think what's at play here is what has been at play for years with Britney.
04:15And when the Free Britney movement started, that there are people who feel like no matter what she says or does, she has the right to do that.
04:26Well, she does have the right to do it.
04:27She has the right to, and then there are people who are concerned because she's been diagnosed with a mental illness.
04:33A serious mental illness that really caused the conservatorship to exist in the first place.
04:38And there are people, fans in that Free Britney movement, who say even if she has this mental illness, so what? Let her be, let her be.
04:47And the reality is this, that there are a lot of people who have mental illnesses that are controlled.
04:54And it can be controlled by drugs, it can be controlled by diet, it can be controlled by all sorts of things.
05:00Where you don't need a conservatorship and people can lead a normal life.
05:03She happens to have a really serious one, not her fault.
05:07Because remember, a conservatorship is an extreme thing.
05:12And you have to go back to 2007 to remember why it was created in the first place.
05:17She almost died. She almost died.
05:20Jamie would say that his biggest fear was getting a call in the middle of the night from the coroner.
05:26So this was a real thing and is a real thing.
05:30It doesn't go away.
05:32So that's one of the reasons a lot of people think, hey, you know, it's just her being silly.
05:38And a lot of people think, and some people think, are concerned.
05:40Who know her are really concerned.
05:42Which doesn't necessarily mean that anybody's calling for her to be under a conservatorship again.
05:46Right.
05:47But there are things that have to be dealt with and these videos raise those concerns.
05:53Hi, I'm Michelle Medina. I'm in California.
05:57I feel like if she would have got her actual age correctly, I would say she's trolling or she's being silly.
06:04But the fact that she didn't even get her actual age correctly
06:08lets me know that there's something wrong mentally.
06:11She has mental issues that need to be addressed.
06:14And I hope that she gets the help that she needs
06:16because we're seeing it get worse and worse throughout her social media.
06:20Yeah, I mean, it is.
06:22Tell you, I think it's concerning.
06:25I know a lot of people disagree.