{"id":48011,"date":"2026-03-13T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/?p=48011"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:27:08","slug":"sam-asghari-defends-britney-spears-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/sam-asghari-defends-britney-spears-dui-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Asghari Defends Britney Spears Following DUI Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f7fafc; padding: 15px;\">\n<p><strong>Quick Read<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sam Asghari publicly defended his ex-wife Britney Spears, framing her recent DUI arrest as part of a broader history of systemic oppression.<\/li>\n<li>Associates of the pop star suggest the arrest may be a tactical effort by outside parties to restore a conservatorship following her recent financial independence.<\/li>\n<li>Britney Spears remains estranged from her father and is currently preparing for a May 4 court appearance regarding the March 4 incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>LOS ANGELES (Azat TV) \u2013 Sam Asghari has publicly defended his former wife, pop icon Britney Spears, in the wake of her recent arrest for driving under the influence. Speaking on a recent episode of <em>Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/em>, the actor and model argued that Spears has been systematically oppressed throughout her career and remains vulnerable to those who seek to take advantage of her.<\/p>\n<h2>Sam Asghari on Spears&#8217; Ongoing Struggles<\/h2>\n<p>Asghari, who was married to the singer for 14 months before their divorce was finalized in 2024, drew parallels between Spears\u2019 experiences and the oppression of women in his native Iran. While he clarified that he was not equating the two situations directly, he emphasized a shared pattern of power dynamics. \u201cComing from the country of Iran and seeing women being oppressed, that\u2019s something that stuck out to me,\u201d Asghari stated. \u201cIn a way, she was also oppressed by many people who took advantage of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spears was arrested on March 4 in Ventura County, California, by the California Highway Patrol on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs. According to reports, she was booked and released the following morning, with a court date currently set for May 4. A representative for the singer described the incident as an \u201cunfortunate\u201d and \u201cinexcusable\u201d event, while noting that Spears intends to comply with the law.<\/p>\n<h2>Concerns Over Conservatorship and Privacy<\/h2>\n<p>The arrest has triggered a wave of public concern, with some of Spears\u2019 former associates suggesting the incident might be used as a pretext to reinstate a conservatorship. Sean Phillip, a former assistant who has known the singer since 2003, expressed skepticism regarding her level of true independence. \u201cI think there are some people out to get her,\u201d Phillip told <em>Extra<\/em>. \u201cThe timing is so off that she gets financial independence and then she\u2019s arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillip and other observers pointed to the fact that Spears sold her music catalog for $200 million earlier this year, suggesting that the recent legal trouble could be a tactical effort by those who previously profited from her estate. Despite these theories, Asghari maintained that the most critical necessity for the singer at this moment is privacy. \u201cI\u2019m a strong believer that she needs her privacy, and everybody makes mistakes,\u201d he said. \u201cI really think she\u2019s a strong woman, and she could come back from this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Family Dynamics and Public Scrutiny<\/h2>\n<p>Amid the legal fallout, reports indicate that Spears remains deeply estranged from her father, Jamie Spears, despite pressure from some family members to reconcile. Sources close to the situation suggest that the singer harbors long-term resentment regarding her 13-year conservatorship, which ended in 2021. While her legal team and representatives manage the fallout from the March 4 incident, the singer is reportedly focusing on her well-being and her relationship with her sons.<\/p>\n<p><em>The ongoing scrutiny surrounding Spears\u2019 personal life nearly five years after the end of her court-ordered conservatorship underscores a persistent tension between her desire for autonomy and the intense, often predatory public interest that continues to treat her independence as a fragile or temporary state.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Asghari has publicly defended his ex-wife Britney Spears following her recent DUI arrest, arguing that the singer remains a victim of systemic oppression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":-1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow5Nm1DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1480],"tags":[15243,2251,17816,51035],"class_list":["post-48011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-britney-spears","tag-celebrity-news","tag-dui","tag-sam-asghari"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sam-Asghari-Britney-Spears.jpg","_embedded":{"wp:featuredmedia":[{"id":-1,"source_url":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sam-Asghari-Britney-Spears.jpg","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azat.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}