Britney Spears fans gathered outside the court where the pop star claimed that she was forcibly kept on contraception as part of a controversial conservatorship arrangement.

Breaking her silence before a US judge, the 39-year-old pop star denounced her father Jamie Spears' legal control of her life and finances as "abusive" and likened it to "sex trafficking".

In an extraordinary 23-minute speech delivered remotely to the courtroom in Los Angeles, she said she had been forced to have a intrauterine birth control device (IUD) inserted and forbidden to have children, as well as being made to take lithium, a powerful mood stabiliser drug with serious side effects, against her will.

She accused her father of "loving every moment" of the control he had over her affairs and said his team had pushed her to do back-to-back musical tours when she did not want to.

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