Britney Spears Says She's "Lucky to Even Be Alive" Amid Estrangement From Family
Britney Spears is calling out her family once again.
The “Toxic” singer shared insight into her estrangement from her family and how she’s feeling towards her relatives after years of alleged poor treatment from them.
“As people, all we really want is to feel connected to each other and never feel alone,” Britney wrote in an Instagram post on Feb. 4. “For those of you in your family that have said to help you is to isolate you and make you feel unbelievably left out … they were wrong. We can forgive as people but u don’t ever forget. Yearning and longing for contact is always crucial !!!”
The 44-year-old—whose 13-year conservatorship with dad Jamie Spears ended in November 2021—continued, “I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive with how my family treated me once in my life and now I’m scared of them.”
Britney went on to suggest that her family hasn’t taken accountability for their alleged actions.
“It’s weird how God works in mysterious ways. My friends, what do you think he is saying today ???” she wrote. “Because to be totally honest with you, no matter what he says, they will never take responsibility for what they did.”
In a final note, Britney shared a look into her life lately, during which she “made cheesecake” with her neighbor, before adding, “PS I haven't danced in a month because I broke my toe twice!”
E! News reached out to Jamie’s reps for comment but has not heard back.
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Britney has been vocal about her relationship with her family—including parents Jamie and Lynne Spears as well as siblings Jamie Lynn and Bryan Spears—over the last several years, including what she endured under the conservatorship, which was put in place in 2008.
In October, she detailed a past "traumatic experience," where she said "for 4 months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere."
"For a person like me who understands the sacredness is god speed… it did more than hurt my body," she wrote at the time, per People. "I do feel the logic and mindfulness in my body as ONE was 100 percent murdered and destroyed… I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent."
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More bombshells about Britney’s family were revealed in her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me. In the book, the Grammy winner—who shares sons Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, with ex-husband Kevin Federline—claimed that the conservatorship "stripped me of my womanhood, made me into a child."
"There was no way to behave like an adult, since they wouldn't treat me like an adult, so I would regress and act like a little girl; but then my adult self would step back in—only my world didn't allow me to be an adult," she wrote. "I felt like I was being deprived of those good secrets of life—those fundamental supposed sins of indulgence and adventure that make us human."
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For his part, Jamie, 73, has consistently maintained that he's always had Britney's "best interests" at heart.
"For anyone who has tried to help a family member dealing with mental health issues, they can appreciate the tremendous amount of daily worry and work this required," Jamie’s lawyer said in a September 2021 statement amid the legal battle with his daughter. "For Mr. Spears, this also meant biting his tongue and not responding to all the false, speculative, and unsubstantiated attacks on him by certain members of the public, media, or more recently, Britney's own attorney."
Jamie Lynn, 34, also made her feelings clear about Britney clear in July 2023.
"I say, ‘You should be so proud,'" she told Variety at the time. "‘Look at what your family's done and accomplished. We came from a small town, and now everybody's fascinated by the good and, especially, the bad. But look at what an example of a strong female you have. You have something to be proud of, and you should have pride in that.'"
For more on Britney’s life, keep reading…
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