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Jamie Spears ‘called Britney a whore and terrible mum after hospitalisation’
Jamie allegedly insulted his daughter after her hospitalisation (Picture: Getty)
Britney Spears was allegedly called ‘a whore and a terrible mother’ by her father Jamie Spears, shortly after she was placed under involuntary psychiatric hold.
A week after Britney, 39, likened the conservatorship she has been under to abuse in a testimony in court, the New Yorker has published an investigation into the conservatorship, written by Ronan Farrow and Jia Tolentino.
In the article, a former friend of the Spears family claims that Jamie, now 68, told his daughter she needed to lose weight and insulted her, soon after he took control of her assets and person as her co-conservator in 2008.
Jacqueline Butcher, who was friends with Britney’s mother Lynne, claims that in one of the first days after Britney was released from hospital after being placed under a 5150 involuntary psychiatric hold, Jamie told his daughter that she needed to lose weight for her comeback.
Butcher told the publication: ‘Jamie said, “Baby,”, and I thought he was going to say, “We love you, but you need help.” But what he said was “You’re fat. Daddy’s gonna get you on a diet and a trainer, and you’re gonna get back in shape.”’
She also claimed that Jamie ‘wore [Britney] down over the following weeks, saying: ‘He would get all in her face—spittle was flying—telling her she was a whore and a terrible mother.’
It was claimed that Britney was only allowed access to her children, Sean and Jayden, if she ‘cooperated’, and that Jamie ‘got rid of anyone his daughter had been close to’.
Jamie remains in charge of his daughter’s finances (Picture: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
One person allegedly dismissed by Jamie was a housekeeper Britney was particularly close to, who alleges that Jamie said: ‘Anyone that works for her from now on goes through me.’
Britney allegedly called the housekeeper and asked her to come back, but she said she ‘your dad told me I’m not allowed to work for you.’
In the same year, Britney made a guest appearance on How I Met Your Mother and recorded her album Circus, taking the record on tour the following year.
Britney has been under the conservatorship ever since, and in last week’s testimony, the Toxic singer alleged that her father ‘loved’ to control her.
She said: ‘The control he had over someone as powerful as me—he loved the control to hurt his own daughter. One hundred thousand per cent, he loved it.’
The princess of pop previously requested that her father be removed as her co-conservator but this week, a judge denied the request.
Britney wants her conservatorship to be lifted (Picture: Rob Latour/Shutterstock)
Last week, Britney shared her wishes for her conservatorship to be lifted ‘without evaluation’, although has yet to officially file a request.
She claimed that she has not been permitted to remove her IUD to have a child with boyfriend Sam Asghari and said she ‘cries every day’ due to the conservatorship.
Jamie, who stepped down as conservator of Britney’s person in 2019 due to poor health but still controls her finances, has placed the blame for Britney’s difficulties on co-conservator Jodi Montogomery.
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In a statement issued during last week’s hearing, his attorney said: ‘[Jamie] is sorry to see his daughter in so much pain. [He] loves his daughter and misses her very much.’
His attorney Thoreen previously said of the conservatorship: ‘Any time Britney wants to end her conservatorship, she can ask her lawyer to file a petition to terminate it; she has always had this right but in 13 years has never exercised it.
‘Britney knows that her Daddy loves her, and that he will be there for her whenever and if she needs him, just as he always has been – conservatorship or not.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted Jamie Spears’ attorney for comment.
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