Falling Out With Jamie Lynn Spears
Throughout what Britney describes as her involuntary trip to rehab in early 2019—”My father mentioned that if I did not go, then I would need to go to courtroom, and I would be embarrassed,” she writes—she recollects being prescribed lithium and being stored there “towards my will” for months.
“I could not go outdoors,” she continues. “I could not drive a automotive. I needed to give blood weekly. I could not take a shower in non-public. I could not shut the door to my room.”
From the power, Britney texted Jamie Lynn Spears, pleading for assist, she writes. Her little sister’s response, per the guide, was, “Cease combating it. There’s nothing you are able to do about it, so cease combating it.”
Britney felt betrayed, writing, “I did not perceive how Jamie Lynn and our father had developed such a very good relationship. She knew I used to be reaching out to her for assist…I felt like she ought to have taken my facet.”
In early 2022 the siblings publicly sparred over Jamie Lynn’s memoir, Things I Should Have Said.
Jamie Lynn “rushed out salacious tales about me, lots of them hurtful and outrageous,” Britney reiterates in her guide. However, she concludes, she loves her sis, including, “I am working to really feel extra compassion than anger towards her and towards everybody who I really feel has wronged me. It is not that straightforward.”
E! Information has reached out to Jamie Lynn for remark. She said on E!’s Daily Pop in 2022 that she and Britney “trip, however on the finish of the day, the love and assist will at all times be there.”