Britney Spears apologises to her fans in heartbreaking new Instagram post

Britney Spears has returned to Instagram to offer a heartbreaking apology to her fans after her explosive court speech.

Britney Spears has posted to her Instagram account for the first time since her explosive court speech yesterday – and in a heartbreaking move, she’s offered an apology to her fans for “pretending” she’s been OK for the past two years.

Fans have been confused by the disconnect between stories emerging about Britney’s situation – an indefinite hiatus from her career and a strict conservatorship overseen by her father Jamie Spears – and the sunny, carefree content on her Instagram account. Her only means of communication with fan, she’d often use her Instagram to post videos insisting she was doing great and enjoying her life.

Britney, seen here with boyfriend Sam Asghari, has offered fans an apology.

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Not today. After confessing in court yesterday that she had “lied” about being happy, Britney today wrote the following caption alongside a quote from Albert Einstein about the importance of reading children fairy tales.

“I just want to tell you guys a little secret … I believe as people we all want the fairy tale life and by the way I’ve posted … my life seems to look and be pretty amazing … I think that’s what we all strive for !!!! That was one of my mother’s best traits … no matter how sh**ty a day was when I was younger … for the sake of me and my siblings she always pretended like everything was OK. I’m bringing this to peoples attention because I don’t want people to think my life is perfect because IT’S DEFINITELY NOT AT ALL … and if you have read anything about me in the news this week … you obviously really know now it’s not !!!! I apologise for pretending like I’ve been OK the past two years … I did it because of my pride and I was embarrassed to share what happened to me … but honestly who doesn’t want to capture there Instagram in a fun light !!!! Believe it or not pretending that I’m OK has actually helped … so I decided to post this quote today because by golly if you’re going through hell … I feel like Instagram has helped me have a cool outlet to share my presence … existence … and to simply feel like I matter despite what I was going through and hey it worked … so I’ve decided to start reading more fairy tales!!!!!”

Britney didn’t mince words in court yesterday when she opened up about the image she’d projected via social media over the past couple of years.

“I’ve lied and told the whole world, ‘I’m OK. And I’m happy.’ It’s a lie. I thought I just maybe [have] said that enough. Because I’ve been in denial. I’ve been in shock. I am traumatised. You know, fake it til you make it. But now I’m telling you the truth. OK? I’m not happy. I can’t sleep. I’m so angry. It’s insane. And I’m depressed. I cry every day,” she said.

A day on, Spears appears to be in good spirits: Boyfriend Sam Asghari today posted several videos of he and Britney goofing around on board what looks like a private jet.

Britney revealed in court yesterday that she would like to marry Asghari and have children together, but has been blocked by the conservatorship.

“I have an IUD in my body right now that won’t let me have a baby and my conservators won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out,” she said.

She also told the court that in the past she was nervous about how she’d be received if she shared her true feelings about her situation. She said she feared “people would make fun of me or laugh at me and say, ‘She’s lying, she’s got everything, she’s Britney Spears’.”