Britney Spears Will Be Legally Single On Her Next Birthday As Judge Confirms Sam Asghari Divorce

Singer Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are no longer together after a judge signed off on their divorce agreement.

The former couple met on the set of her Slumber Party music video in 2016. The couple became engaged in September 2021, only two months before her controversial 13-year conservatorship was struck down by a judge in November of that same year.

In August 2023, the "Special Ops: Lioness" actor filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split.

On May 1, Britney Spears' attorney Laura Wasser filed the Crossroads actress' response to the divorce petition along with a Stipulated Judgement. There had been rumors that Sam planned to contest the prenup through his lawyer, Neal Hersh, but it looks like those plans never came to fruition. Instead, it is likely that Britney cut Sam a check in order to expedite the divorce process.

On May 2, a judge approved the divorce. According to the documents obtained by The Blast, Britney Spears and Sam Asghari will be officially legally single on December 2, 2024. This date falls on Britney’s 43rd birthday.

Due to the prenup in place, Britney Spears will not be paying Sam Asghari spousal support.  Previous reports also indicated that she is not paying rent on his new apartment.

Even though a judge struck down her controversial 13-year conservatorship in November 2021, the legal drama continued to play out in court between the 42-year-old pop star and her father, Jamie Spears. Ultimately, it was decided that Britney would not receive any money from her father, but would have to cover his legal bills, which reportedly amounted to over two million dollars.

Although the conservatorship drama has finished in court, it was swiftly followed by allegations that Britney was blowing her money on frequent lavish vacations and was, in a word, "broke." This prompted a psychiatrist to tell TMZ that, if Britney was his patient, he would force her to take medication and submit her to another conservatorship.

Dr. Charles Sophy weighed in on the reports that Britney was becoming “dysfunctional” and overspending, claiming that it was a sign that she stopped taking her medication.

"The conservatorship was there for a reason," Dr. Sophy said during a chat on TMZ Live. "And even though it might not have been with the right person, the actual process needs to be in place because when you have a mental illness to this degree, you need that kind of structure, supervision, and, most importantly, to take your medication."

"I think that's what has happened here,” he added, calling it a “no-medication situation."

"Well, because of the erratic behavior, the manic spending of money, the recklessness, destroying people around her. No one feels safe around her. No one can control her. She's out of control on many levels," Dr. Sophy claimed.

In October 2023, Britney Spears released her tell-all memoir "The Woman In Me." In the pages of her book, the "Overprotected" singer finally got a chance to tell her story in her own words. She described the struggles she experienced during her court-ordered conservatorship, including feeling like a "robot."

“I became a robot. But not just a robot — a sort of child-robot. I had been so infantilized that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself,” she wrote in the book in an excerpt transcribed by People magazine. “The conservatorship stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child. I became more of an entity than a person onstage. I had always felt music in my bones and my blood; they stole that from me.”

Britney continued, "This is what’s hard to explain, how quickly I could vacillate between being a little girl and being a teenager and being a woman, because of the way they had robbed me of my freedom. There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn’t treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in — only my world didn’t allow me to be an adult."

Working the title of her memoir into her book, Britney went on to say, "The woman in me was pushed down for a long time. They wanted me to be wild onstage, the way they told me to be, and to be a robot the rest of the time. I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life — those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human. They wanted to take away that specialness and keep everything as rote as possible. It was death to my creativity as an artist.”