Britney Spears Claims She Suffered Brain Damage

Britney Spears posted a lengthy message to her Instagram page on Sunday saying she experienced brain damage.

People magazine wrote, "the pop superstar seemed to open up about spending four months in rehab in 2018 while under a conservatorship and the impact it's had on her life, claiming she feels 'brain damage happened to me.'"

"For 4 months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere," Spears stated in the post. "I couldn’t dance or move for 5 months…"

"I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent," Spears wrote. "I have of course moved on from that troubling time in my life and I’m blessed to be alive…"

In her 2023 book The Woman in Me, Spears claims her father Jamie Spears insisted that she check in to a rehab facility in 2018, People reported.

"My father said that if I didn’t go, then I’d have to go to court, and I’d be embarrassed," she wrote.

People reports that Spears claimed her father would make her look like an "idiot" if she didn't check in to the $60,000-per-month Beverly Hills facility, "where she was allegedly prescribed lithium and only allowed an hour of television before her 9 p.m. bedtime."

"They kept me locked up against my will for months," Spears wrote in her book. "I couldn’t go outside. I couldn’t drive a car. I had to give blood weekly. I couldn’t take a bath in private. I couldn’t shut the door to my room."

Her Instagram post stated, in part:

"I had a traumatic experience as some of you know at the end of my book where for 4 months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere…"

"I do feel the logic and mindfulness in my body as ONE was 100 percent murdered and destroyed I couldn’t dance or move for 5 months…"

"I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent… I have of course moved on from that troubling time in my life and I’m blessed to be alive…"

"...people are incredibly cruel… still to this day I haven’t flown like I use to do you think if I go to the Vatican I might find something quite interesting there??????"

The post comes just two days before the launch of ex-husband Kevin Federline's memoir You Thought You Knew, set for release tomorrow.

Excerpts include claims by Federline about her behavior as a parent, drug and alcohol use, and a fear for her life.

Britney Spears in 2019 following rehab (Source: Instagram via CNN)