Britney Spears says she’s “working on feeling more compassion” for sister Jamie Lynn after years of fighting.
The pop icon, 41 – who will release explosive memoir The Woman In Me on October 24 – also claims in her comprehensive book that Jamie-Lynn, 32, told her to ‘stop fighting’ her controversial 2008 conservatorship -2021. .
In the excerpts he came up with People, Spears writes, “She will always be my sister, and I love her and her beautiful family. I’m working on feeling more compassion than anger towards her, and everyone I feel has wronged me. It’s not that easy.’
The star said her younger sister ‘ruled the roost’ at their home in Kentwood, Louisiana, leaving Britney feeling like a ‘ghost child’ to her parents Jamie and Lynn.
She writes: “I remember walking into the room and feeling like no one had even seen me. Jamie Lynn has only seen TV. My mother, who at one point was the person I was closest to in the world, was on another planet… I would listen to her spout these hateful words, and I would turn to my mother and say, “Are you going to let this little witch is she talking to you like that?” I mean, she was bad.’
Honest: Britney Spears says she’s ‘working on feeling more compassion’ for sister Jamie Lynn after years of falling out (pictured in 2017)
Released October 24: Spears’ memoir, The Woman Inside Me, has set off a series of bombshells
Spears, who has previously accused her sister of doing ‘nothing’ to help her during her custody, she also claims that when she was committed to a mental health facility in 2018, she sent Jamie a message asking for her help.
She claims Jamie replied: ‘Stop fighting it… There’s nothing you can do about it, so stop fighting it.’
Spears wrote: “This is going to sound crazy, but I’m going to say it again because it’s true: I thought they were going to try to kill me. I didn’t understand how Jamie Lynn and our father developed such a good relationship. She knew that I was turning to her for help and that she was following me. I felt like he should have taken my side.’
DailyMail.com has contacted Jamie-Linn’s representatives for comment.
The star also addresses her famous confrontation with Jamie’s Zoe 101 co-star Alexa Nicholas – admitting she has since learned Nicholas was “innocent” and offering an apology.
In 2022, Nicholas revealed that the singer shouted at her on the set of Zoey 101 after Jamie accused her of bullying. Nicholas added that Britney has since ‘personally apologized’ for the incident
In another shocking passage, the pop superstar called Jamie Lynn a ‘total bitch’ – even though she was describing her sister when she was just 11 years old.
Britney recalled being fed up with her sister’s allegedly terrible behavior when she returned home from a tour in 2002, a source said Us Weekly on Thursday.
Bad blood: The star said her younger sister ‘ruled’ at their home in Kentwood, Louisiana, leaving Britney feeling like a ‘ghost child’ to her parents Jamie and Lynn; seen in 2003 in Santa Monica
Text: Spears, who has previously accused her sister of doing ‘nothing’ to help her during her time in care, also claims that when she was committed to a mental health facility in 2018, she texted Jamie asking for her help; seen in 2002
The extract was leaked just days after an excerpt was leaked in which Britney claims she had an abortion after becoming pregnant at just 19 because her then-boyfriend Justin Timberlake ‘wasn’t ready to be a father’.
In the latest nugget from her memoir, the singer has slammed Jamie Lynn’s behavior in their family home for her poor treatment of their mother, who has struggled since her split.
Jamie Lynn and the rest of the Spears family were not invited to her wedding to Sam Asghari in 2022.
In a July interview with DiversityJamie Lynn has said she has ‘absolute love’ for Britney, but admitted it has been ‘tough’ to deal with the backlash she has received from the Free Britney movement, as well as her older sister’s scathing posts.
“I have nothing but absolute love for every member of my family.” “If I’ve learned anything from last year, because I’ve been so open and felt like I have to defend myself at times, I don’t feel like there’s anything else I need to say,” she said of her relationship with Britney.
“I just have to leave it where it is because those conversations should be personal.” All I can focus on now is my girls, my husband and the work I do.’
In January, Jamie Lynn spoke candidly about eclipsing her older sister’s stardom, saying in a stunning headline audio: ‘I’m so proud of her, I love her to death, but I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like I have nothing for myself.’
Another big instigator of one of their breakups was Jamie Lynn’s memoir, in which she accused the singer of once grabbing a knife and locking herself in a room with her because she ‘didn’t feel safe’.
At the time, Britney criticized her sibling for spreading ‘crazy lies’ about her in the book, and a public war of words raged between them.
Britney also revealed that she wasn’t happy when Jamie Lynn used her music in his performance at the Radio Disney Music Awards in 2017. “I don’t like that my sister showed up at the awards and remixed MY SONGS,” she wrote. “My so-called support system hurt me deeply!!!!”
Fury: Britney also revealed she wasn’t happy when Jamie Lynn used her music in his performance at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. ‘I don’t like that my sister showed up at the awards and remixed MY SONGS
She recently reconciled with Jamie Lynn, revealing in an Instagram post uploaded on June 21 that she had a ‘nice’ visit with her little brother on the set of the latter’s Zoey 102 film.
This shocked fans as Britney angered Jamie Lynn back in January when she slammed her for saying it was “hard” to be her sister.
Their mother Lynne Spears reportedly ‘begged’ Britney to meet Jamie Lynn in the weeks leading up to their reunion.