In his first interview in additional than a decade, Jamie Spears defends placing daughter Britney Spears below the 13-year conservatorship that fueled the #FreeBritney motion, calling it a “useful gizmo” that protected the pop star and her two kids, Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden, 16.
The Mail on Sunday has printed a uncommon interview with the Spears patriarch, 70, his first because the conservatorship led to November of 2021. Chatting with interviewer Daphne Barak, Spears defended his actions, however declined to reply definitively whether or not the conservatorship, which started in 2008, lasted too lengthy.
“Not everyone’s going to agree with me,” he instructed Barak. “It has been one hell of a time. However I really like my daughter with all my coronary heart and soul. The place would Britney be proper now with out that conservatorship? And I do not know if she’d be alive. I do not.
“For safeguarding her, and in addition defending the youngsters, conservatorship was an amazing device. With out it, I do not suppose she would have gotten the youngsters again,” he added.
However as just lately as September, the “Stronger” singer has spoken of being estranged from her two sons with ex-husband Kevin Federline, all of whom have criticized her social media exercise. The pop star, who just lately celebrated her forty first birthday, can be estranged from dad Jamie, who’s described as dwelling together with his youthful daughter, former Zoey 101 star Jamie Lynn Spears, in rural Louisiana. Although Britney has lashed out at her sibling on social media — at one level calling her a “scum particular person” — she just lately posted a message praising 31-year-old Jamie Lynn for her look on the Fox actuality present Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at. Jamie, who’s described as having suffered well being setbacks lately, says he too has misplaced contact with Britney’s boys, although at one level he claims they “had been my closest grandkids.”
“I miss my two boys actually, actually dangerous,” he says. “I do. You understand, we had been very, very shut. They had been round that age the place you would begin having time with them. However they had been creating a thoughts of their very own. God makes issues occur for a motive. I do not know what that motive is nevertheless it’s been a tricky three years with out them. The household’s a multitude. All we will do is preserve praying.”
Spears added that he typically thinks “the boys are used as a pawn,” however stated it is as much as their father, Federline, to resolve if he can see his grandsons. “The boys should be comfy,” he famous.
Britney has described her father as abusive and controlling. However all through the prolonged interview, the retired Spears maintains that he had his daughter’s finest pursuits at coronary heart. The conservatorship, he claimed, allowed her to have 50% bodily, if not authorized, custody of her sons, although both he or Federline had been current throughout her visits together with her kids.
“We might take the youngsters to Europe,” Spears stated. “They did not miss time with their mom. They did not miss time with their father. Not many individuals knew that. The principle goal was to get Britney again together with her children in a snug relationship. We did every part on this planet with them.”
He additionally claimed that his celebrity daughter “was broke” on the time the conservatorship was established.
“She had no cash by any means,” Spears stated. “The conservatorship set a useful resource the place she might get again financially. And, you already know, we labored — and she or he labored — and she or he bought herself straight up financially. … The conservatorship allowed the funds to be higher.”
Spears additionally insisted that his intervention had “made a distinction” that benefitted his daughter, regardless of her testimony disputing this.
“My understanding of a conservatorship is to assist somebody regain their life and return again to society, and to have the ability to reside usually,” he stated. “I wish to say that I made a distinction. There have been a couple of individuals behind me that basically helped carry it to a degree the place we might assist her.”
The general public, he claimed, have the fallacious thought about what the conservatorship concerned.
“All I can say is that most individuals haven’t got a clue what the reality is,” he continued. “Her lawyer does not have a clue what the reality is. The media has not heard the reality. They’ve heard the allegations from Britney.
“I do not thoughts taking that beating as a result of I do know it isn’t true, and since I do not wish to begin one thing else. For my daughter to finish up going additional down the outlet than she had been,” he stated.
Although Spears and Federline are actually again involved regardless of the latter man submitting a 2019 restraining order (now lapsed) in opposition to his former father-in-law. Federline additionally accused Spears of battery, alleging that Jamie broke down a locked door and “violently shook” Sean Preston. Spears stepped down as his daughter’s conservator following the incident, citing well being issues.
Chatting with the Mail on Sunday, Spears expressed hope that his household would possibly resolve their points with one another.
“Every particular person has bought plenty of work to do,” he stated. “I do not know if a few of them wish to do the work or not. It will be a tricky factor, however that is the purpose. Like I say, household’s not in good condition proper now. That is all I can say.
“It is higher — however we have got a whole lot of work to do.”
Britney and her crew have but to reply to Spears’s interview.
