Britney Spears has released a lengthy 22-minute audio slide accusing her parents of abuse, saying they established their controversial guardianship over her after an unidentified woman pitched them to them.
The 40-year-old singer posted the rambling recording to YouTube on Sunday night in a video that has since been made private, offering new details about the oppressive arrangement that ended last April after more than 15 years.
The clip shows Spears speaking at length about her experiences during that time, offering a chronological account of the events that led to her being placed in guardianship, in which her father Jamie controlled her decisions and finances.
Also see Ui! The I Did It Again singer, who recently deleted her Instagram, claims her forced hospitalization in 2008 was premeditated and the product of a plot to take control of her millions.
Perhaps most surprisingly, however, the de facto public service announcement saw Spears, who is currently in the midst of an explosive and very public feud with her ex-husband Kevin Federline, suggest that she was previously drug- and alcohol-free your system to his hospitalization, as stated above.
It comes days after the retired pop star made his first foray back into the music business last Friday with Elton John on the duet Hold Me Closer, and almost half a year before a judge released him from figurative father duty.
Britney Spears, seen here with her parents Lynne and Jamie, has released a lengthy 22-minute audio slide accusing her parents of abuse, saying they established their controversial guardianship over her after an unidentified woman present the idea
The clip begins with Spears explaining that she’s had “tons of opportunities” to share her story, including a lucrative offer from Oprah Winfrey, but thinks it’s “silly” to be paid to open up about her struggles, and encouraged her to publish. the explanation of everything.
She added that she had been hesitant to share her story before since being released from her guardianship earlier this year, for fear of being judged or reprimanded, and was now “confident” enough to tell the world.
She described being “punished” by her abusive father Jamie, 70, with guardianship in 2008 when she was 25, nearly a decade after the Louisiana native shot to superstardom with her music career after she call an abusive childhood.
Under the oppressive agreement — which she said she forced upon her after speaking with one of her British-accented psychiatrists — Spears recalled that she was “not allowed to see anyone” and was a prisoner in her home.
Under the oppressive deal – which she said she forced upon her after speaking to one of her British-accented psychiatrists – Spears described how she was “not allowed to see anyone” and was a prisoner in her home.
Spears, pictured here in 2013 during her guardianship, is currently in the midst of an explosive and very public feud with the father of her two sons, Sean and Jayden.
She also recalled that the day before her forced hospitalization she was awakened by a SWAT team and three helicopters enlisted by her father.
“Literally, to the extent of my insanity,” a weary Spears says on the recording, “I was playing paparazzi chase, which to this day is one of the funnest things I’ve ever done being famous.”
Spears revealed that her mother Lynne, 67, had warned her about her father’s plans that day, saying she had heard “that people were coming here today to talk to you”, with Spears not realizing at the time -se of the meaning of it. mother’s words
“We should probably go to a hotel or something,” Lynne told him.
Four hours later, Spears said, “there were over 200 hundred paparazzi outside my house, filming me through the window of an ambulance” as they were “held up on a gurney.”
Spears claimed she now knows the incident was “premeditated,” a plan she said her father carefully executed to control his finances.
He went on to say that an unnamed woman “introduced the idea to my father,” adding that his mother also “helped him keep going and made it happen.”
Spears did not specify when the alleged encounter took place or how she found out about it, but she remained adamant that there had been a plot to get her hospitalized.
“Everything was ready,” Spears says in the recording, adding that she was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time, as her father told police and emergency responders who arrived at the scene.
“There were no drugs or alcohol in my system,” Spears said in the scathing clip. ‘Pure abuse.’
“And I haven’t even shared half of it,” the singer continued, just weeks after engaging in an online war of words with former fling Kevin Federline over the parenting of his own teenage children.
She proceeded to raise her childhood in Louisiana, being under “the control of her father” as she put it.
“I was scared and scared,” she recalled. ‘I didn’t actually do anything. None of this made sense to me.
He detailed how Jamie “liked to be in control of everything he did” in the lengthy recording.
“I remember the first time she said, ‘I’m Britney Spears, and I say it,’ and I was like, ‘Okay,'” she told her nearly 10 million YouTube subscribers.
“All I remember was I had to do what I was told. I was told I was fat every day I had to go to the gym, I had to, and I’ll never remember feeling so demoralized.
‘And just, they made me feel like nothing. And I kept at it because I was afraid. I was afraid and I was afraid’.
Those fears, she said, continued during her more than 15 years in custody, demoralizing the singer and scaring her into fighting her father, who she said during that time had control over all her actions and decisions.
“Honestly,” Spears said of the first eight years of her guardianship, “I just didn’t care anymore, because I couldn’t go where I wanted to go.
‘I couldn’t have the nannies I wanted to have; I couldn’t have cash, and it was just demoralizing. So I was like into this conspiracy thing, of people claiming and, like, treating me like a superstar.
“But still,” Spears added, “they treated me like nothing,” at which point she teared up in the clip.
She went on to recall the hardships she was forced to endure during this time, such as being subjected to a lack of privacy and being constantly monitored by her father’s team and doctors.
Britney Spears’ scathing 20-minute account of turning down opportunity to comment at Oprah Winfrey sit-down
Okay, so I woke up this morning and realized there’s a lot going on in my head that I haven’t really shared with anyone. And, and I’ve had many opportunities, interviews on Oprah, to go on a platform and share hardships or just anything that pops into my head. And I really don’t think any of that is relevant to getting paid to tell your story, it just seems a little silly to me. So I’m, I’m here, honestly, just to open up to others and try to shed some light on if anyone out there has ever been through hardship or whatever just to shed some light on it. And so that person doesn’t feel alone, because I really know how they feel.
Honestly, I haven’t shared it openly either, because I’ve always been afraid of judgment. And definitely the shame of it all, period. And skepticism and cynical people have what and their opinions about what people would really think. I think I’m in a place now, where I’m a little more confident that I can be willing to openly share my thoughts and whatnot. I’ve been through because I haven’t really had that outlet to share completely openly, for so long, just being afraid of judgments, other people’s thoughts and what they think or might say. And I think it’s crucial, from my heart and my head, to be able to talk about it openly like anyone else would. Well, the actual guardianship started I think 15 or 16 years ago, I was 25.
When he started, he was very young. I remember a lot of my friends texting me and calling me and we’re really close, and they wanted to see me, but because of what had happened, I honestly still, to this day, I don’t know what I really did. But my father’s punishment, I couldn’t, you know, see anybody or like anything. And you have to imagine that none of this made any sense to me. I literally spoke a British accent to a doctor to prescribe me the medication. And three days later, there was an exchange team at my house, Three Helicopters. And I remember my mom’s best friend and my two friends being asleep the night before I was held at the stake. And again, none of it made sense. Literally the extent of my insanity was playing chess when I was playing chase with paparazzi, which is still to this day one of the funnest things I’ve ever done to be famous. So I don’t know what was so damaging about it. But I remember my mother sitting on the couch.
And she said, we heard that people are coming here today to talk to you. We should probably go, you know, to a hotel or something. And I never really understood what he meant. I didn’t believe her like she was a lawyer coming here. who comes here that four hours later, there were more than 200 paparazzi outside my house videotaping me through the window of an ambulance carrying me over a hair salon. Now I know it was all premeditated. And a woman pitched the idea to my dad, and my mom helped him follow through and did everything. It was basically all set up. There were no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing. It was pure abuse. And I haven’t shared half of it. I think the biggest thing I remember when I started was my father’s control. He loved to control everything he did. I remember the first thing she said, I’m Britney…