Ups and downs. Britney Spears and her mom, Lynne Spears, have had a rocky relationship via the years.
Practically 10 years after hitting it massive along with her debut single, “Child One Extra Time,” Britney was positioned beneath a conservatorship — run by her father, Jamie Spears — in February 2008 after a sequence of public private struggles. For a number of years, Jamie had management over his eldest daughter’s property and particular person till Jodi Montgomery took over in 2019. Lynne — who finalized her divorce from Jamie in 2002 — bought concerned within the authorized battle in 2020 when she requested to be included in monetary choices on the “Circus” singer’s behalf. Britney, for her half, has been vocal about how her mother and father managed her affairs.
“I simply need my life again. It’s been 13 years, and it’s sufficient. It’s been a very long time since I’ve owned my cash,” the “Stronger” performer stated throughout an emotional court docket testimony in June 2021. “And it’s my want and my dream for all of this to finish with out being examined. … I might actually wish to sue my household, to be completely trustworthy with you. I additionally would love to have the ability to share my story with the world, and what they did to me, as an alternative of it being a hush-hush secret to profit all of them.”
She added: “I’m not completely satisfied. I can’t sleep. I’m so indignant. It’s insane. And I’m depressed.”
The conservatorship was in the end terminated in November 2021, however the dangerous blood between Britney and her household have remained.
“A girl launched the thought [of the conservatorship] to my dad, and my mother really helped him observe via and made all of it occur,” the previous Mouseketeer alleged in a since-deleted August 2022 video shared through YouTube. “It was all principally arrange. There have been no medicine in my system. No alcohol. No nothing. It was pure abuse.”
Britney continued on the time: “How the f—okay did they get away with it? How is there a god? Is there a god? I used to be so, so weak … I used to be scared, damaged. I’m sharing this as a result of I would like folks to know I’m solely human … how can I mend this, if I don’t discuss this?”
The Grammy winner additional alleged that she was angrier at her mom than her father as a result of she might have helped — however didn’t.
“The entire thing that made it actually complicated for me is these folks [the #FreeBritney movement] are on the road combating for me, however my sister [Jamie Lynn Spears] and my mom aren’t doing something,” Britney claimed in her bombshell recording. “To me, it was like they secretly actually favored me being the dangerous one — like I used to be tousled, and so they type of simply favored it that means. In any other case, why weren’t they exterior my doorstep, saying, ‘Child lady, get within the automobile. Let’s go.’ I feel that’s the principle factor that harm me. I couldn’t course of how my household went together with it for thus lengthy. Their solely response was, ‘We didn’t know.’”
Lynne, for her half, responded to her daughter’s claims through Instagram that August. She wrote: “Britney, your complete life I’ve tried my greatest to assist your desires and desires! And likewise, I’ve tried my greatest that will help you out of hardships!”
The “If U Search Amy” performer has since saved her distance from her household — together with Lynne, Jamie and the Zoey 101 alum — none of whom have been invited to her June 2022 wedding ceremony to Sam Asghari.
Scroll under for a timeline of Britney’s relationship along with her mom:
