Britney Spears asks fans to respect her privacy after 'prank phone calls' prompted wellness check - CNN

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Britney Spears has asked her fans to respect her privateness aft she says “prank telephone calls” prompted a wellness cheque from constabulary earlier this week.

The singer posted a enactment to Twitter on Thursday successful which she addressed the constabulary sojourn and said, “I emotion and adore my fans but this clip things went a small excessively acold and my privateness was invaded.”

Spears went connected to specify that the constabulary “never entered” her location and that erstwhile they arrived, “they rapidly realized determination was nary contented and near immediately.”

The vocalist lamented that the incidental near her feeling “gaslit and bullied” and that she was “being portrayed erstwhile again successful a mediocre an unfair airy by the media.”

“During this clip successful my life, I genuinely anticipation the nationalist and my fans who I attraction truthful overmuch astir tin respect my privateness moving forward,” she wrote.

In an emailed connection to CNN connected Wednesday, Sgt. Jason Karol from the Ventura County Sheriff’s bureau confirmed that the section had “received immoderate calls from acrophobic fans” aft Spears deleted her Instagram account.

He said the wellness cheque was completed “out of an abundance of caution” and that it was “determined she was harmless and successful nary danger.”

Over the past 2 years, Spears has been successful the spotlight owed to ineligible battles implicit her conservatorship – which had been enactment successful spot successful 2008 and was mostly controlled by her begetter Jamie Spears until its dissolution successful 2021 – and the ensuing #freeBritney movement.

Spears had utilized her Instragram level arsenic the superior conduit to pass with her supporters, but has taken breaks from societal media successful the past.