‘I think there are some people out to get her’

Key Points

• Britney Spears’ former assistant, Sean Phillip, expressed considerations concerning her DUI arrest in an interview with Extra.

• “I don’t think she’s free,” he claimed. “There’s still a care plan in place. I personally don’t think she has access to all her finances, but a lot of other people do, and I don’t think it’s fair.”

• Spears is anticipated to seem in courtroom on May 4.

Britney Spears‘former assistant is speaking out about her DUI arrest.

In an interview with ExtraSpears’ good friend of 20 years and former private assistant, Sean Phillipshared his ideas concerning the incident.

“I think there are some people out to get her,” he instructed the outlet. “And the timing is so off that she gets financial independence and then she’s arrested.”

Phillip, who has been associates with Spears since 2003, is referring to Spears selling her music catalog for $200 million in February. “We all think it’s a push to put her back in a conservatorship [because] guess what happened when the conservatorship stopped? People stopped getting money,” he claimed.

“I don’t think she’s free,” Phillip continued. “There’s still a care plan in place. I personally don’t think she has access to all her finances, but a lot of other people do, and I don’t think it’s fair.”

In 2021, Spears was released from a 13-year-long conservatorship by a Los Angeles Superior Court choose, which gave her the power to make selections about her private life, funds, and different features of her life.

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As for what recommendation Phillip has for Spears, he stated, “I encourage her to speak for herself [because] she can squash everything in a second.”

Days earlier than Phillips’ look on Extra, he appeared on Good Morning Britain on Friday, March 6. “You have to imagine what she’s going through all these times,” Phillip stated on the time. “And it makes me feel bad when she has to endure public mistakes.”

“I think she’s going to be okay,” he added. “She’s one of the strongest people that I’ve ever met. She gives me inspiration to go forward sometimes.”

On March 4, Spears was arrested around 9:30 p.m. by the California Highway Patrol in Ventura County, Calif. She was launched the next morning, per Ventura County Sheriff’s Office arrest data.

“This was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable,” Spears’ rep stated in a statement to PEOPLE on March 5. “Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life.”

“Her boys are going to be spending time with her. Her loved ones are going to come up with an overdue needed plan to set her up for success for well being.” Spears shares sons Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19, with ex-husband Kevin Federline.

Spears is due in courtroom on May 4.

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