Britney Spears’ Ups and Downs With Dad Jamie Over the Years

Britney Spears’ authorized drama together with her father, Jamie Spears, has continued to make headlines amid her indefinite work hiatus, however their ups and downs date again to her childhood.

“Me and my daughter’s relationship has all the time been strained,” Jamie testified throughout a June 2019 courtroom listening to.

Rising up, Britney and her mom, Lynne Spears, had been thick as thieves, with the matriarch taking her eldest daughter to out-of-state auditions and performances of their native Louisiana whereas Jamie bounced from job to job and struggled with alcoholism. Lynne thought of leaving her husband a number of occasions after their July 1975 marriage ceremony (and even filed for divorce in December 1979 earlier than withdrawing her petition), however breaking apart their household was the very last thing she needed to do.

“After I look again, I assume I might have ended it so much sooner and perhaps saved myself and my son [Bryan] some heartache. However I wouldn’t have my ladies, Britney and Jamie Lynn,” the previous schoolteacher wrote in her 2008 memoir, By way of the Storm. “Plus, it’s virtually unattainable to say I ought to have carried out this or that. On the time, divorcing Jamie didn’t appear to be the proper factor to do.”

After Britney’s profession took off in 1998, nevertheless, her mother and father’ marriage took a flip for the more serious. They divorced in Could 2002, and the Grammy winner later known as it “the perfect factor that’s ever occurred to my household.”

Jamie remained in Britney’s life after his break up from Lynne and was tasked with enjoying a pivotal function starting in February 2008, when a Los Angeles courtroom gave him management of his well-known daughter’s private affairs and property amid her much-publicized breakdown. Though he initially petitioned for the conservatorship to be short-term, it was made everlasting that October. The authorized association has been in place ever since, regardless of Britney ultimately making an expert comeback, releasing new albums, touring the world, judging a season of The X Issue and raking in practically $140 million throughout a four-year Las Vegas residency.

As Britney’s longest-serving conservator — others, like legal professional Andrew Pockets and licensed fiduciary Jodi Montgomery, have come and gone over time — Jamie has been credited with basically saving Britney’s life when she was at her lowest level.

“It is a story of an in depth household however not an ideal one,” Jamie’s legal professional Leon Gladstone stated in courtroom in October 2012. “It’s a narrative of a person who really needed nothing extra for his daughter than to dwell and be nicely. It’s a narrative of a father who has needed to step up and take motion that he by no means thought he must take.”

And but, the Crossroads actress and many individuals in her interior circle really feel that ending the conservatorship is lengthy overdue.

“Britney’s household is at warfare with one another and it’s all due to the conservatorship,” a supply completely informed Us Weekly in September 2020, noting that Lynne, who briefly reconciled with Jamie in late 2010 however by no means remarried him, “desires a care plan established that will transition Britney’s private life out of the conservatorship.”

The #FreeBritney motion was victorious in November 2021, with Britney’s conservatorship formally ending. Scroll right down to revisit Britney and Jamie’s ups and downs through the years: