In explosive and detailed remarks, Britney Spears on Wednesday passionately condemned the legal arrangement that has given her father and others control over her personal finances, asking a judge to put a stop to it.

Ive told the world Im happy and OK, Spears told a Los Angeles courtroom. Im traumatized. Im not happy. I cant sleep.

Since 2008, the pop star has been under a conservatorship, a formerly little-known legal tool to protect the finances of a person deemed mentally unfit to handle them. In recent years, public awareness and criticism of the arrangement have mounted, with fans often using the hashtag #FreeBritney asking why a successful professional woman should not be allowed to control the money she makes.

Spears spoke for about 20 minutes Wednesday , at times very rapidly, explaining that she was not previously aware she could ask the court to end her conservatorship.

This is the first time Spears, 39, has publicly spoken about the situation, despite press reports indicating she was unhappy with it. Addressing the court remotely by phone, she railed against her family and lawyers, painting a picture of herself as a woman imprisoned within her own life. The conservatorship, Spears said, is abusive and prevents her from living a full life.

Im so angry, its insane, she said.

Spears asked Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny to end the conservatorship without evaluation.

I havent done anything in the world to deserve this treatment, she said.

At one point, Spears accused her conservators of refusing to take her to a doctor to remove a birth control device so she could get pregnant.

I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told ... I cant get married, she said. Her boyfriend, Sam Asghari, had posted a photo of himself wearing a #FreeBritney T-shirt to social media earlier on Wednesday.