Britney Spears has spoken out about her 13-year conservatorship, describing how her father “controlled her body and her money” and “hurt her” with “fat” swear words.
The 41-year-old singer has attacked 71-year-old father Jamie in her explosive new memoir, titled The Woman In Me, which will be released later this month.
In excerpts obtained by Peoplethe star opened up about the unrelenting control her family had over her, which, looking back, makes her “feel sick.”
Britney heartbreakingly admitted: “Feeling like you’re never good enough is a crushing state of being for a child.”
Britney Spears has spoken out about her 13-year conservatorship as she describes how her father ‘controlled her body and her money’ and ‘hurt her’ with ‘fat’ swear words
The 41-year-old singer will address 71-year-old father Jamie in her explosive new memoir, titled The Woman In Me, which will be released later this month.
In excerpts obtained by People, the star opened up about the unrelenting control her family had over her, which, looking back, makes her “feel sick.”
In the upcoming release, Britney writes, “I was watched so much growing up. Since I was a teenager, I was looked at from head to toe and people told me what they thought of my body. Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.
‘But under the conservatory I was told that those days were now over. I needed to grow my hair and get back into shape. I had to go to bed early and took the meds they told me to take.
‘If I thought criticism of my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father. He repeatedly told me that I looked fat and that I should do something about it.’
She continued, “Feeling like you are never good enough is a crushing state of being for a child. He had instilled that message in me as a girl, and even after I had accomplished so much, he continued to do it with me.
‘I became a robot. But not just any robot – a kind of child robot. I had become so infantilized that I lost pieces of what made me feel like myself.’
The star concluded: ‘Thirteen years passed in which I felt like a shadow of myself. I think back now that my father and his associates had control over my body and my money for so long and it makes me sick…
“I didn’t deserve what my family did to me.”
Jamie took control of his eldest daughter’s life and finances in 2008 after a series of highly publicized mental health issues.
Jamie took control of his eldest daughter’s life and finances in 2008 after a series of highly publicized mental health issues
It started as a temporary arrangement but became permanent by the end of the year.
In the years that followed, Britney was considered good enough to operate in what the former trustee in the lawsuits called a “hybrid business model,” but not good enough to keep her personal life in check.
The estate checked who her friends were, where she could go and “signed her up for a drink at Starbucks with every purchase,” according to The New York Times.
Britney also told the court that she had been forced to use birth control and take medication against her will.
During a trial, she told the judge: ‘Madam, my father and everyone involved in this conservatory, and my management, who played a huge role in punishing me when I said ‘No’ (to going on tour) – Ma’ ben, they should be in jail.”
Earlier this month, it was reported that Jamie would not be reading Britney’s memoir.
Jamie (previously pictured with now ex-wife Lynn) has kept a relatively low profile after being suspended as head of the conservatory in September 2021, a move that was made permanent two months later
It comes after DailyMail.com exclusively revealed Jamie is now living with his other daughter Jamie Lynn Spears (pictured with sister Britney in 2003) following his battle with alcoholism
Sources close to Jamie said he isn’t concerned about being “outed” in her book as she has already spoken disparagingly about him on social media. TMZ.
Britney made headlines regarding her father a year ago when she said on Instagram, “I honestly felt like my dad tried to kill me and I hope he burns in hell.”
Jamie has kept a relatively low profile after being suspended as head of the conservatory in September 2021, a move that was made permanent two months later.
It comes after DailyMail.com exclusively revealed Jamie is now living with his other daughter Jamie Lynn Spears following his battle with alcoholism.
His parenting shortcomings and struggles with alcohol have previously been documented in Jamie Lynn’s 2021 memoir, Things I Should Have Said, and his ex-wife Lynne’s.
Britney’s The Woman In Me and its accompanying audiobook will be released on October 24.
Elsewhere in the book, she describes how she entered the entertainment scene at the age of eleven and gives a very candid insight into her first kiss with Justin Timberlake.