BRITNEY Spears is “100 percent confident she will take back control of her life again” after years of being under her father’s conservatorship, a friend of the star exclusively told The Sun.
The Toxic singer, 39, is “sure” she will soon be able to make decisions about her estate and personal life, especially so she can marry her boyfriend, Sam Asghari, have more children and return to singing.
The star’s close friend and former makeup artist Billy “Billy B” Brasfield, who calls and texts Britney regularly, also confirmed rumors she has “absolutely nothing” to do with her dad Jamie, who controls her affairs.
However, the star “remains close” to her mom Lynne, sister Jamie Lynn and brother Bryan.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, Billy — one of the most respected makeup artists in showbiz — insisted the mom of two is “doing great” and has “found a way to be happy” despite her 13-year conservatorship.
He says Jamie’s conservatorship, the result of the singer’s 2008 breakdown, “has gone from an act of love in crisis to an unconditional act of control.”
Under the terms of the long-running conservatorship, Britney can’t drive or go out by herself, or make any significant personal or financial decisions.
She recently won the right to have her affairs co-managed with a trust, which Billy calls a “baby step” towards her regaining her independence.
Billy told The Sun: “As ‘unicorn like’ as the world thinks Britney is, she’s a very normal, down-to-earth person. She’s just in an extraordinary situation.
“We’ll be talking on the phone for example, and she’ll say, ‘Hold on a second I’m doing my laundry.’
“The other day we talked and she was working around the house moving furniture and decorating.
“She is 100 percent optimistic and extremely capable and smart – and has a strategy and people need to respect that.
“There are a lot of people thinking they know what’s best for Britney but she is a grown woman who is very capable.
“I 100 percent believe, as does she, that she will get control back.”
Billy assured fans the star is “doing great,” and is “anything but fragile.”
He continued: “She sees her children Sean Preston and Jayden but she can’t drive her car and it’s things like that on a daily basis that are frustrating for her.”
Billy said Britney and Sam are “very happy and in a good place” after the fitness model called her dad Jamie a “d**k” on Instagram.
“They go out for lunch and dinner and have quality time.
“But you know she doesn’t have the right to marry, she doesn’t have the right to have more children.
“She needs the conservatorship to end if she wants to make a decision about marrying or having more children in the future, and whether she wants to perform again.
“But Britney is such an optimistic person she has found a way to be happy.
“She doesn’t see her father at all but she has a very close relationship with everyone else in her family. She loves her sister, nieces and nephews and her brother.
“She and her mom have always been very close and they continue to be close.
“She is able to go out but she has a chaperone. She can’t even take a walk without a chaperone.
“She’s my friend and I say to her, ‘Well you’re famous, so you have to be careful.’
“But looking at it from her perspective, are her security there to protect her or to monitor her?”
He also said despite fans’ hopes, it’s unlikely that she will ever appear in person at any of her conservatorship hearings, which take place throughout the year in LA.
And he says the new documentary Framing Britney Spears has put her back in the spotlight just like when she first had her mental troubles.
“Everyone wants to hear what Britney has to say and for her to appear in court,” he said.
“But what you have to remember is the nature of her conservatorship, she was deemed incapable.
“Anything that she does has to be approved, including her social media. It’s not managed by her. She doesn’t even own her name, it’s not her trademark.
“I get asked a lot, ‘Why can’t she do an Instagram Live via Sam’s account?’
“But she is so well she understands the repercussions of that, and she wants to comply with the conservatorship to get it behind her.
“There’s more attention on her now because of the Framing Britney Spears documentary but she’s not affected by it.
“She’s noticed more helicopters flying over her house like they used to, for example.”
He added: “When the conservatorship happened, her parents were just concerned for their daughter and they were worried about her.
“But since that start a lot of people have become involved, a lot of people making a lot of money. A lot of attorneys are making a lot of money.
“To an extent I believe her father has become misguided.
“The conservatorship has gone from an act of love in crisis into an unconditional act of control.
“Now thankfully he can’t make decisions on his own, the Bessemer Trust has been appointed.
“There are checks and balances now which is good.
“It’s baby steps but it appears that Britney is getting heard about what her wishes are.”
Billy said Britney is also concerned for her ex husband, Jason Alexander, who she was famously married in 2004 for just 55 hours after tying the knot in Las Vegas.
Last August, Jason attended a #FreeBritney rally outside an LA court during one of her conservatorship hearings.
He told then how he and Britney were had reconnected earlier that year by Facebook.
But in January, he was arrested in Nashville on DUI and drug charges.
After being pulled over by cops, the 39-year-old was landed with three misdemeanor charges: driving under the influence, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia and possession or casual exchange of a controlled substance.
He is next due in court in April.
Billy said: “Britney will always consider Jason a friend and she’s a very loyal friend, and if any of her friends have a problem it concerns her.”
