Britney Spears goes to a bar for the 1st time in 13 years: "I feel sophisticated"

Britney Spears treated herself to a cocktail at an unspecified bar on July 28, which was the first time she had entered such an establishment since her conservatorship was instituted in 2008. "It's my first time in a bar, first time," the 40-year-old pop icon said in her Instagram Story. "I feel so classy and I feel so sophisticated," said she added, glancing at viewers over the bustling bar and posing with a blonde-haired companion.

Britney, who wore an orange tank top and a choker necklace with a blue bottle cap pendant on it, also wrote a pointed message on the video. "I'm so glad they took my way for 13 years to have a cocktail," she wrote in pink letters. "I'm so grateful to you!!!" Britney, of course, was released from her controversial conservatorship in November 2021 after giving grueling testimony about her unfair treatment by her team, which was led by her father,