Britney Spears has said “people have no idea the awful things that were done to me” under her father’s conservatorship.

In an Instagram post, the popstar, 40, said the time spent under the controversial arrangement “really hurt me” and was “set up to make me fail”.

Last month a judge terminated the conservatorship which had allowed the singer’s father and team to control her life and money for more than a decade.

She called the life-changing ruling the “best day ever”.

Lawyers acting for her father have called for her to continue paying his legal fees, claiming that he had “stepped up” to protect her from “opportunistic and wholly self-interested parties”.

In her post on Monday, Spears said she decided not to release new music as a way to get back at the people she said were hurting her.

“I wanted to be nice but what they did to my heart was unforgivable,” she wrote.

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“I asked for 13 years to perform new songs and remixes of my old songs…and every time I was told, ‘No…’

“It was a set up to make me fail.

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“So much wasted time and I guess it seems odd to most now why I don’t even do my music any more.

“People have no idea the awful things that were done to me personally…and what I’ve been through I am scared of people and the business.

“They really hurt me.

1998 – Aged 16, Spears releases debut single …Baby One More Time. The following year, her debut album of the same name tops the charts in 15 countries.

2004 – Spears marries childhood friend Jason Alexander in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas but the marriage is annulled three days later. Nine months later, she marries dancer Kevin Federline.

2005 – Her first son, Sean Preston, is born. The star also wins a Grammy award for hit single Toxic. Second son Jayden James is born the following year – two months later, Spears files for divorce from Federline.

2007 – Spears enters and drops out of rehab twice in a matter of days and infamously shaves her head at a salon in Los Angeles. The star later loses custody of her two sons. Despite her personal struggles, she releases fifth album, Blackout.

2008 – The court-ordered conservatorship is put in place, with Jamie Spears and an attorney put in control of the star’s personal and business affairs. Comeback album Circus is released at the end of the year and a world tour follows in 2009.

2011 – Spears releases her seventh studio album Femme Fatale and embarks on another tour.

2013 – A two-year residency in Las Vegas begins and the singer releases Britney Jean, her eighth album. The residency is later extended for another two years.

2019 – The star announces an “indefinite work hiatus” and cancels a second planned Las Vegas residency. The #FreeBritney movement is started by fans.

2020 – Spears’ lawyer asks for her father to be replaced as conservator. At a later hearing, the court is told the singer will not perform live again while he is in control.

June 2021 – In June, Spears speaks out in open court for the first time, giving an emotional statement describing the conservatorship as abusive. The following month, Spears gets to choose her lawyer for the first time and her new attorney requests that Jamie Spears be removed as conservator.

September 2021 – Jamie Spears files a petition to end the conservatorship completely – later in the month he is removed from his role by the judge hearing the case. Spears and her boyfriend of four years Sam Asghari announce their engagement during this period.

November 2021 – Judge ends conservatorship

“Not doing my music any more is a way of saying “F*** You” in a sense when it actually benefits my family by ignoring my real work.”

The last album Spears released was Glory in 2016.

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