The Breakfast Club - Free Brittany Again? ( Loren sits with CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group Ginalisa Monterroso )

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

This episode Loren LoRosa sits down with Ginalisa Monterroso, who is the founder and CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group to discuss the recent DUI case with Brittney Spears. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm the homeguard that knows a little bit about everything and everybody. Give me that excuse me. I don't know if you're going to lie about that, right? Lauren came in hot. Hey, y'all, what's up? It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is another episode of the latest with Lauren the Rosa. Your Daily Dig on All Things Pop Culture, Entertainment, and all of the conversations that shake the room, baby. Now, today we are going to get right into a conversation. News broke within the last, like, hour or so that Britney Spears was arrested for a DUI in California.

Now, when you hear that at face value, it's already like, whoa, hold on. Wait, I mean, it's Britney Spears. We're talking DUI here, a suspected or alleged DUI because we don't have the test results back. But she was pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence. And we know for several years, Britney Spears was in a conservatorship. And now this conservatorship followed a health crisis that Britney Spears was going through. There were, you know, allegations of drug use and allegations of alcohol abuse.

And there was an obvious mental breakdown in 2008 when Britney Spears had a few different you know, things that happened, including her shaving her head. And then, you know, she was 51-50ed. And there was just a lot that went down. So Britney Spears was in a conservatorship. She was in that conservatorship for about 13 years. That conservatorship ended in 2021. It was led by her dad, Jamie Spears, who gained control over her finances,

her day-to-day health, her day-to-day, you know, what she does, how she does it, who has access to her. And all of this was done for the protection of Britney Spears. But there was a whole free Britney Spears movement, which I was living in L.A. at the time. And when I say movement, I mean, like, it was a real movement. Like, I remember the free Britney Spears protest. There were Facebook groups that I was, like, speaking to during the protest and different things. And Britney was going back and forth to court, and she was fighting to get out of the conservatorship.

she was fighting for her dad not to have control over her life and just so many different things that it actually happened. Now, when it happened, one of the biggest questions was how will her life be now? And will Britney Spears be okay? And since 2021, there have been various things that have come up. I mean, reports of, you know, her allegedly pulling knives on people and, you know, issues with her boyfriend or boyfriend at the time, Sam Asgari, who was, you know, a background dancer. and her boyfriend at the time and, you know, conversations about her living conditions

and the cleanliness of that and, you know, these alleged medicine cocktails that she's supposed to be taken for whatever health issue it is that she deals with and reports of her not taking them. There's just been things all over the place since her conservatorship. Some of the videos she's posted online have not been the best. Some of them have been very troubling. And people are still having the conversation about whether or not freeing, bring Britney Spears from that conservatorship was helpful or harmful to her.

And now this DUI arrest happens in 2026, some five years later since Britney Spears was freed from that conservatorship. So I wanted to have a conversation about that. But I wanted to do it in a way that wasn't just, let's report on it and move on. Because I think when I talk about mental health and people that deal with it, whether it's like in addiction, whether it's a Kanye West and everything that we see him go through in the public, I think, or, you know, a Wendy Williams, I think people can be very, um, touch and go as if this is something that, like, you report on and you can just move on from. But if you're the real person or

the family of these people, or just very connected fans, and Britney Spears has that, very connected fans, it's something that you're dealing with on the day to day because, you know, today is March 6, 26, right? But, and we'll talk about this and, you know, maybe we'll talk about it for a week or maybe two weeks, but in a day to day, Britney Spears will have to deal with whatever the consequences of this are, whether it's jail time or rehabilitation or both. And so will her family. So I wanted to bring on someone to the podcast to have a conversation with me about this who does work in this space. And I thought of a person who I got to know very closely when I was doing a lot of the reporting on Wendy Williams because she was helping Wendy Williams in a very

early stages of Wendy trying to be freed from her conservatorship. Ms. Gina Lisa Montaroso, who is the CEO of Connect Care Advisory Group, and she's a force. Like when I got to know Ms. Gina Lisa, I was like, I don't know how you do it all the time. She does it in her personal life, her professional life, but this is her work, making sure that people, you know, who deal with various addictions, mental health things, health things in general, are taking care of and are treated the right way. in and out of conservatorships. So, Gina Lisa, welcome to the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast.

How are you? Thank you, Lauren. Thank you for having me. I'm fine. How's everything going with you? Everything is going well with me. You know, I always tell you how amazing and how dope I think you are because people who take the time to take care of people, I don't think the world gives y'all enough.

And I know it can be tough because, you know, I've experienced it, but not on your level, but I've experienced it. So you're an angel on earth. That's first of all. Thank you so much. And so are you. We love you. Thank you. Okay, so let's get into Britney Spears. So she was arrested for DUI and alleged DUI in California Wednesday.

She was driving by herself in her car. Police say that they realized that there was like a car swerving dangerously throughout various lanes. They called for backup, pulled her over, immediately took her straight to the hospital to get her blood tested. And for those of you guys who don't know, sometimes a police officer will say, hey, let's do like. like a walk the line or follow my instructions test right on the scene. But when they want to make sure or they feel like it's a serious, you know, you're intoxicated seriously, they take you to do a blood test if they have you right there on the scene. So that is what they did with Britney Spears.

She wasn't injured or anything like that. They took her to the hospital solely to test her blood alcohol levels. And all of this is following her conservatorship and just people being really concerned about her. Now, Ms. Gina Lisa, in hearing everything about this new reporting, knowing that you Britney Spears' background just from, you know, reporting. I know you never worked with her. But in your line of work, do you think that at this point, with all of these instances,

Britney Spears should be completely out of a conservatorship? And that could be very controversial, right? Only because we kind of see her maybe, quote, unquote, spiraling. But how many people get pulled over for DUI? Right. It's not uncommon, right? We shouldn't think about restricting her and keeping her in this box just because she had this DUI. I know we see a lot of things on the internet that we look at and say, you know, that's something maybe we wouldn't do on an everyday basis.

But this is a person who obviously is dealing maybe with some mental issues. And I think when we talk about conservatorship and someone who needs help, you don't want to run to the conservative part because I'm sure that conservatorship has traumatized Brittany. The way it was structured, how confined she was, how she wasn't able to make any decision. She didn't have any autonomy. You don't want to take that away from somebody. You want to make sure that she has a space to grow, get help mentally, physically, and be cared for. throwing her into conservatorship is just, you know, almost as if we're throwing her into prison and we forget about her.

That's not the right way to do things. To me, that's my professional opinion. So then what is the right way, right? Because, yes, people do get DUIs every day. You know, unfortunately this happens. But, like, you know, it could have been bad. Like, she could have been hurt and or killed. Someone could have been hurt and or killed.

But also, too, I think it's just even before you think about that, I think, about the decision making. Like, you know, there have been instances within, like, the last, like, two to three years where you hear about it and you hear the reports and you're like, I don't know, Britney Spiris is making the best decisions right now. And then you see this and it's like, that's not a good decision for sure, for sure. What do you do then? Like, if conservatorship isn't, like, so she's not fully in a conservatorship

and you want to be gentle of all those things. So what does that look like? You come in full force with a team. And I know this was done. before, but I think before there was a lot more of out of control and, you know, a lot more self-harm. Here, you know, she is doing some harm, but I think step one is not the conservatorship, it's the steps. We take the steps to help.

Where are the people that are going to come in and help her kind of form a barrier around her, see if they're able to come in and kind of get some help, therapy, whatever it is. is you just don't automatically go into a conservatorship. I know it's reported in TMZ. Her sons are going to come visit. Some families are going to come in. I think that's very important. You know, people who are in a space where they're deemed may be conservatorship,

there's a trust component that they deal with. It's a fear that they don't trust everyone because everyone's going to come up to them and tell them that they're crazy or they need to be locked up. that's why they kind of disassociate themselves with people and they don't trust anybody because everybody just wants to put them away she has to be around trusted people who are going to work with her who are professionals who are going to understand her day to day just taking someone and locking them up again

and just not putting anything structured and just treating them as robots it's not the way to go there has to be steps here family let's see what the family does let's see how much help they get her but she has to get a trust, a buildup of trust, because remember, she was traumatized by the previous

conservatorship. Well, in her previous conservatorship, I just want to break down like what she was and was not allowed to do. I mean, she really wasn't allowed to do anything, honestly. Correct. It was financial control, so, you know, she had like a $60 million fortune at that time because she's the Britney Spears, and her

dad had complete control over that, over her estate, controlled all the business deals, you know, expenses, investments, and there's always been argument like she even argued in court that she was not happy with how some things were utilized and how and where money was going and I think that that's always an issue with a conservatorship um but then there was like personal medical decision so she was forced to take medicine and I won't say force but she was you know they were having her take medicines

uh undergo therapy um she had spent some time in a mental health facility at one point she claimed that that was like against her will they also had autonomy or like decision over whether she could reproduce or have children, you know what I mean, or not. And just, you know, her movement, who could come visit her, where she could go, if she could even, like, put out music, like, all of that was controlled. And, you know, I get what you're saying, but I guess it's like, where in this mix of things? Like, so right now, if a judge were to see this, could someone go back and say, hey, Judge, I know you got her out of the conservatorship in 2021, but look at this.

she could have killed herself for someone, she needs something legally again. Could that happen? It could if there's a strong, a strong push for it. But the person that's putting in that show, you have to remember when you go to the courts, it's very black and white.

It's not warm and fuzzy, right? They're not going to be like, oh, let's help her. Let's put in this step program to mentally and physically get her to a place where, you know, she'll be able to kind of be okay out in the community. It's either, you know, you come in, we put you into conservatorship and we take away everything from you or you try to work it out in the community.

I don't believe her having this DUI pushes her into a conservatorship. What I do believe is that there has to be a team that comes in, right, and puts a plan and mental health professionals. And it has to be done very slowly and carefully because that whole list that you've read to me about what she could not do. do, that is not healthy. That is not keeping a person safe, right? That's controlling them, treating them like a robot, and just having them do whatever you want. It's just very controlling.

And conservatorships were meant and built to help people to keep them safe, to protect them, not to control them and take a time we meet away from them. I get you. I get you. And I did see the story where, you know, I saw, you know, some further reporting where They were talking about how her children are set to visit her and that'll, you know, that'll help her. That's helpful. Yeah, I just, my thing with Britney Spears, and I think this was, you know, I've had conversations with you about Wendy Williams when I was reporting a lot on that.

And my biggest thing is, is, you know, not all the time do you have family members who can endure all of this to kind of step in? And I know her dad, he went through the ringer, but just, he was dragged. Like, Jamie Spears was the villain. He was dragged. He was the most horrible person. But this is still his daughter. So it's like if he doesn't want to be involved and she doesn't have anybody

and it gets to a point where, you know, maybe they discover or, you know, whatever. Maybe it does get to a point where she needs something guardianship wise. Who steps up them? Because we're looking at what happened with Wendy Williams in the court being in control and she's miserable, you know, now with that.

So it's like, is it just the court? Like what happens in that instant? Because it's like almost like she's abandoned. Like she doesn't have a person. Correct. And I don't know Britney's family tree, but guardianship and conservatorships, there's a foundation, and that's family. And if you don't have a family that you are able to trust or the court feels they cannot trust you,

then you cannot go to your family, which is why it's always good to have a family bond with the potential ward and develop a trust so that the system doesn't take them and body. snatch them and take them away from everybody because that's it's always either you're in a conservative conservatorship or you're not right there's never a middle right right and there should be a middle and that's what's missing here in this whole structure the middle part people don't want to take the time right it's a lot of work it is and the court doesn't have that time and that's not how they plan it's either you you're going to come in or you're not right and so that's where

there should be a middle the middle should start forming right now. She had this DOI, hey, this is an alarm for us. Let's see if we can gather up as a family. Let's see if we could try to build up trust. She's been through a lot. We have to kind of focus on

the person with the mental health issue. We tend to blame a lot. We tend to make fun of, you know, everything that but there is something in dumb that we need to respect that they don't get. Which is why they run away from help.

Yeah. Yeah. I get you. So when you talk about help them, right, in closing, we talk about help. You know, I'm seeing the reporting of like, you know, of course her family and close friends, they want her to not have to do jail time, which could be on the table. But I think once they do a mental health evaluation, hopefully they see that like this is something bigger than just a person who just decided to just, you know, be reckless and drink and drive, right? But because also, too, there's other reported there was a potential control substance found in the car. So that makes it, it's very in line with everything that she was getting in trouble with before her conservatorship, right? So they talk about they would rather have rehabilitation, see her in rehabilitation and in jail. What does rehabilitation look like, though? Because I think just putting her in a rehab facility, Britney Spears has been to rehab facilities.

Yeah, and you know, a lot of people who have a mental health condition, again, I know I sound like it's repetitive. It's a trust component, right? Everybody wants to drug them. Everybody wants to call them crazy. And so rehab to a person who has a mental issue is finding someone that they can trust, right? And working with that person step by step by step. And it takes a lot of work. you're not going to get it on the first try, the second try.

It's going to be a whole bunch of times because you need to put in that routine. Right. It's like trying to teach a baby how to walk. You don't stop teaching them because they fell. You picked them up and you teach them how to walk again. And that's how you deal with rehabilitation. Yeah. And unfortunately, a lot of these programs do not have the time.

A lot of them just want the money. So that's a missing component in our world right now, that middle ground, to really understand someone what they're going through, how we can fix it, who they can trust. What is it that they want? Why don't we ever ask that person, what do you want? Right? And if they say, hey, I want to live on an island alone,

hey, we can't do that, but maybe we can find a nice neighborhood, right? That doesn't have a lot of homes. You kind of work with that instead of going against it. So with that being said, can you tell the people a bit more about, talk about what you do on a day-to-day, And I don't know if your services are like, you know, for hire anymore at this point. I don't know your case load, your workload, but I would love for, I mean, we have 8 million listeners, over 9 million, actually.

So I would love for them to get to know what you do in that instance, because that's why I open this with saying, every time I talk to you, I remind you how important you are and how special it is what you do, because I know it takes a lot of patience. I know it does, and it is not a rewarding industry. Like, you get treated really bad. You don't get paid as well a lot of times. you still do it. So I would love for people to be able to support what you're doing

and to learn more about what you're doing because you do need that middle point, but those people are null and void most of the time in this medical field. So talk to us a bit about your company, your platform, and what you need from people that are listening and watching. So our company, we deal with the elderly, the disabled, and we assist them in preserving the autonomy

into remaining home with services and making sure that they're safe and protected and they have all their needs met, whether it's through government services, whether it's through private money, we go and we put all the services in place to make sure that they're able to still remain at home. They have food, shelter, medical, and no one is out to kind of put a conservatorship or guardianship and take them away from their space. And we are hired privately by family and friends and utilize that money with our services to assist them to make sure that they're safe. Got you. And where can they find you guys?

We have a website, www.comnectcareag.org. They can also call us. Office number is 646-745-9122. And can they be based anywhere or is it just New York? Yes. It's nationwide. And remember, we assist the elderly and disabled, and we advocate to make sure that they're able to stay home

and live in their own environment. Got you. Well, thank you so much, Ms. Gina Lisa, our angel on earth. I appreciate you as always. Y'all, I called her literally as I was getting this segment together because I'm like, I need someone to talk about it, but I don't want it to be so stuffy. I want somebody I know actually cares about people in these positions

because it's tough. It is tough. And imagine being a Britney Spears, you know, or a Wendy Wood. Like, all these people have. have such public-facing platforms and lives while going through this. So, yes, we appreciate you, and we thank you, Ms. Gina, Lisa. I'll talk to you soon. I'll let you know when this goes live.

Okay, guys, so that has been another episode of the latest with Lauren the Rosa. There will be updates here. You know, this Britney Spears story and conversation will not stop here, so we will be bringing you the latest when it comes to that. And I tell you guys, every single episode, y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking about all of the things, but you guys choose to be right here with me, my low riders. I appreciate you guys and I will catch you in the next episode.

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