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Britney Spears will not be solely revealing the sophisticated issues of her private life in her new memoir however that of her whole household.
In The Girl in Me, the pop star recollects the disturbing previous of her father Jamie Spears‘ dad June Spears Sr., who allegedly abused his younger daughter for years. In response to the singer, her paternal grandfather began to abuse her aunt — who was simply 11 on the time — and the gross habits lasted for 5 years. The 41-year-old wrote:
“One in all my father’s half sisters has stated that June sexually abused her beginning when she was eleven, till she ran away at sixteen.”
Whoa. It solely stopped as soon as she ran away?? Horrible.
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June, who was an officer for the Baton Rouge Police Division and died in 2012, welcomed ten kids with three wives. Frankly, he simply wasn’t seen as a superb man, Britney acknowledged:
“So far as I can inform, nobody has one good phrase to say concerning the first fifty years of his life. Even in my household, it was stated the Spears males tended to be unhealthy information, particularly when it comes to how they handled ladies.”
Umm, is that this additionally a dig at her brother, Bryan Spears?! Oof!
The songwriter’s aunt, Leigh Ann Spears Wrather, truly first spoke out concerning the alleged abuse in an interview with the New York Put up in 2021, saying she’d go to church — the place her dad was a deacon — and he’d make her carry out sexual acts on the best way dwelling. She instructed the outlet:
“I by no means went again besides to go to a couple of occasions. I’ve been coping with it my complete life. He used to line us children up and whip us. We’d go to church the place my daddy was the deacon and on the best way dwelling he’d make me beat him off. I hope he’s burning in hell.”
So, so terrible.
Whereas these earlier than her needed to expertise June’s wrath, Britney went on to say in her tell-all that he “softened as he bought older,” noting:
“I didn’t expertise the vicious man who had abused my father and his siblings however moderately a grandfather who appeared affected person and candy.”
Per DM, Britney additionally addressed the merciless approach her grandfather allegedly handled the ladies in his life. That features allegations that he had two of his three wives locked up in a “horrible” psychological asylum in Mandeville, Louisiana. The Circus singer’s grandmother, Emma Jean Forbes — Jamie’s momma — was even allegedly placed on the drug lithium following the loss of life of her son, who died at simply three days previous.
After all, this can be a placing connection to the Grammy winner, who has complained about being pressured to take the identical drug throughout her conservatorship. Wow. Maybe Jamie allegedly realized that from his dad…
Sadly, Jean handed away eight years after her son’s loss of life, when she died by suicide by capturing herself at his grave — though Leigh Anne and others aren’t so positive the loss of life was actually a suicide, per The Put up. That is tremendous tragic throughout, and it should’ve been such a tough household reality to grapple with for Britney rising up.
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