Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, spoke out publicly for the primary time in additional than a decade this weekend — over a 12 months after the singer’s conservatorship ended.
In an interview with Sunday’s Day by day Mail, he overtly addressed the courtroom order and defended his position throughout his daughter’s 13-year conservatorship. He additionally mentioned he doesn’t know if she can be alive with out it.
“Not all people’s going to agree with me,” Jamie Spears mentioned. “It’s been one hell of a time. However I like my daughter with all my coronary heart and soul. The place would Britney be proper now with out that conservatorship? And I don’t know if she’d be alive. I don’t.”
The daddy mentioned he “isn’t going to color no fairly footage,” however that the courtroom order protected Britney Spears in the course of the tough occasions.
“For shielding her, and in addition defending the youngsters, conservatorship was an awesome instrument. With out it, I don’t assume she would have gotten the youngsters again,” he added.
In November 2021, an L.A. choose granted a petition to terminate the association throughout a listening to that lasted lower than half-hour. This got here after an emotional testimony from Britney Spears that summer time, by which she claimed the conservatorship was abusive and mentioned she needed to finish it. Following the testimony, the singer was allowed to rent her personal lawyer for the primary time, which led to an investigation of the alleged abuse.
Then, after greater than a decade of the #FreeBritney motion and years of followers speculating that Britney Spears was sad, the singer was free of the courtroom order.
Now, Britney Spears lives together with her husband, mannequin Sam Asghari, in Los Angeles. In April, she introduced she was anticipating her first youngster with Asghari; the next month, Spears revealed that she had had a miscarriage. She additionally has two sons, Jayden and Preston, with ex-husband Kevin Federline.
Jamie Spears lives along with his different daughter, Jamie Lynn Spears, in rural Louisiana. He instructed the Day by day Mail that he needs to be cautious what he says as a result of he doesn’t need to trigger the singer any heartache.
“I miss my two boys [Jayden and Preston] actually, actually unhealthy,” Jamie Spears mentioned. “I do. You recognize, we had been very, very shut. They had been round that age the place you may begin having a superb time with them. However they had been growing a thoughts of their very own. God makes issues occur for a cause. I don’t know what that cause is nevertheless it’s been a tricky three years with out them. The household’s a multitude. All we are able to do is preserve praying.”
Britney Spears’ entry to her two sons was additionally a part of the conservatorship. Though Federline was initially granted full custody of them, Jamie Spears mentioned he labored out an association with Federline so they may spend time with their mom.
“They didn’t miss time with their mom. They didn’t miss time with their father. Not many individuals knew that. The principle objective was to get Britney again together with her children in a cushty relationship,” he mentioned. “My relationship with Kevin gave them a way of peace, and of safety. Kevin will inform you this too — it was us who raised the youngsters. I simply did what I used to be presupposed to do or felt like I wanted to do.”
Jamie Spears additionally claims the conservatorship helped construct his daughter’s funds as a result of “she was broke” and “had no cash, in anyway.”
“My understanding of a conservatorship is to assist somebody regain their life and return again to society, and to have the ability to stay usually,” he added. “I need to say that I made a distinction. There have been a number of individuals behind me that basically helped carry it to a degree the place we might assist her.”
However from an outdoor perspective, many disagreed. In January 2019, the singer canceled her second deliberate Vegas residency amid a hiatus. A couple of months later, she entered a psychiatric facility, and followers quickly started to take a position that her father had her admitted in opposition to her will. The #FreeBritney motion additionally claimed the conservatorship was proscribing the singer.
“All I can say is that most individuals don’t have a clue what the reality is,” Jamie Spears mentioned in response to the allegations. “Her lawyer doesn’t have a clue what the reality is. The media has not heard the reality. They’ve heard the allegations from Britney. I don’t thoughts taking that beating as a result of I do know it’s not true, and since I don’t need to begin one thing else. For my daughter to finish up going additional down the outlet than she had been.”
The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to Britney Spears’ rep for remark.
