She said she didn’t know she could petition to end the conservatorship.
Last year, Mr. Ingham began requesting substantial changes to the conservatorship on behalf of Ms. Spears, including stripping power from her father, James P.
“She articulated she feels the conservatorship has become an oppressive and controlling tool against her,” a court investigator wrote in a 2016 report.
Ms. Spears informed the investigator that she wanted the conservatorship terminated as soon as possible.
Her current boyfriend, Sam Asghari, had spoken publicly in opposition to Ms. Spears’s arrangement even when she remained relatively silent.
This week The New York Times reported that Ms. Spears, 39, had expressed serious opposition to the conservatorship earlier and more often than had been known.
Sometimes known as a guardianship, a conservatorship is a complex legal arrangement typically reserved for those who are old, ill or infirm.
Ms. Spears has lived under a conservatorship since 2008, after a string of public meltdowns that were captured by the ever-present paparazzi and aggressively covered by the media.
Conservatorships are designed to be a necessary last resort to protect the vulnerable.
And last year, Mr. Ingham told the judge that Ms. Spears was “afraid of her father,” who remains a steward of her nearly $60 million fortune.
The tabloids had been obsessed with Ms. Spears since her days as a teenage bubble-gum pop sensation, but the coverage reached a new level of intensity during her mid-20s.