‘One day I start learning about what the conservatorship is, and that’s when I was like, ‘Wait a minute. I thought I’m in America”
Sam Asghari is lifting the lid on his marriage to Britney Spears.
Things took a turn when the 30-year-old Iranian-born actor and model learned that Spears, 43, was living under a conservatorship.
“One day I start learning about what the conservatorship is, and that’s when I was like, ‘Wait a minute. I thought I’m in America. What do you mean someone over the age of 18 needs permission from their parents?’” he recalled.
After she suffered a mental health breakdown, Spears lived under a 13-year-long court-mandated conservatorship that was overseen by her father, Jamie Spears, from 2008 to 2021.
Speaking to a Los Angeles judge in 2021, Spears said she felt traumatized and angry over the constraints that had been put on her life.
Asghari, who wed Spears in June 2022, split from the Grammy winner after just over a year of marriage. Their divorce was finalized last May.
Asghari told the Hudson siblings that Spears’ conservatorship “the weirdest thing to deal with” during their time together.
“One of the hardest things, I think, to deal with when you go into entertainment is your parents and the people around you, and everything that happens, and everybody that comes into your life that’s taken advantage — that damages you because those are the people that are closest to you,” he said.
The Jackpot! star went on to say that he tried to “provide support” to the the mom of two throughout their relationship.
“I think the best thing to do is to provide support in that moment and that’s what I did, I provided as much as I could,” he said.
“Usually, the people that are around you, the people that you allow into your circle, you kind of are vulnerable to them,” Asghari added. “They take an advantage because they think, you know, you you owe something to them or something, which is so ridiculous. That was the most difficult and weird spiral thing that I’ve witnessed in my life ever.”
But even though their marriage ended in tatters, Asghari had no regrets that the two got together and tried to make it work.
“There’s seven years worth of relationship that comes from the music video and a marriage and a lot of experiences … and a lot of a lot of experiences,” he said. “Which I like to call it a crash course in Hollywood … I’m always gonna be grateful and happy that it ever even happened.”