Jamie Spears is talking out for the primary time in an extended, very long time about Britney Spears’ controversial conservatorship!
As you already know, the 41-year-old singer was positioned in a conservatorship in 2008 – with it being cut up into two components: her property/funds and leisure selections. Jamie ended up being appointed because the conservator for each, incomes a stipend of $16,000 monthly. Years later, following a prolonged authorized battle, Britney was free of the association in November 2021. Ever since then, the pop sensation has used her newfound freedom to open up concerning the hardships she confronted over the previous 13 years by the hands of Jamie and others. She even spilled in a YouTube video that her dad “controlled everything I did” for a very long time, however she “had to go along because I knew they could hurt me.”
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While Jamie has largely stored quiet concerning the matter, aside from beforehand saying the #FreeBritney motion was a “joke” that’s “run by conspiracy theorists,” he’s now coming ahead to double down and defend himself over placing his daughter into the conservatorship! In his first interview in additional than a decade on Saturday, the 70-year-old insisted to Dailymail.com that his actions had been essential not solely to avoid wasting Brtiney’s life however to assist her relationship along with her sons Jayden James and Sean Preston Federline:
“Not everybody’s going to agree with me. It’s been one hell of a time. But I love my daughter with all my heart and soul. Where would Britney be right now without that conservatorship? And I don’t know if she’d be alive. I don’t. For protecting her, and also protecting the kids, conservatorship was a great tool. Without it, I don’t think she would have got the kids back.”
Jamie then mentioned he has no contact with Britney or her youngsters right now. Touching on his falling out with the youngsters after they bought a restraining order towards him in 2019 as a consequence of an altercation, Jamie expressed:
“I miss my two boys really, really bad. I do. You know, we were very, very close. They were around that age where you could start having a good time with them. But they were developing a mind of their own. God makes things happen for a reason. I don’t know what that reason is but it’s been a tough three years without them. The family’s a mess. All we can do is keep praying.”
When it involves the youngsters, Jamie shared that the conservatorship was allegedly meant to guard Jayden and Preston. Initially, Kevin Federline was granted full custody of the boys earlier than Britney obtained 50 % bodily custody of them. Britney beforehand shared that the preparations felt “like being in prison” – however Jamie maintains that wasn’t the case:
“We could take the kids to Europe. They didn’t miss time with their mother. They didn’t miss time with their father. Not many people knew that. The main purpose was to get Britney back with her kids in a comfortable relationship. We did everything in the world with them.”
Furthermore, he shockingly alleges that it was Okay-Fed and him who raised Jayden and Preston:
“My relationship with Kevin gave them a sense of peace, and of protection. Kevin will tell you this too – it was us who raised the kids. I just did what I was supposed to do, or felt like I needed to do. I didn’t make any decisions on my own – the team of people were me and my associate, and Kevin. We could all take the kids to the doctor, and to school. At that time Kevin had a lot going on. And the conservatorship made sure the boys never left that house without security. They didn’t go to school one day without lunch.”
Elsewhere, he claimed the conservatorship aided in rebuilding her funds as a result of “she was broke” and “had no money, whatsoever,” including:
“The conservatorship set a resource where she could get back financially. And, you know, we worked – and she worked – and she got herself straight up financially.”
During the conservatorship, followers noticed Britney launch 4 albums, go on three world excursions, and carry out a two-year residency in Las Vegas. Jamie continued:
“The conservatorship allowed the finances to be better. My understanding of a conservatorship is to help someone regain their life and return back to society, and to be able to live normally. I want to say that I made a difference. There were a few people behind me that really helped bring it to a point where we could help her.”
However, many individuals didn’t see it this manner. As chances are you’ll recall, the Crossroads actress canceled her second scheduled residency as she was happening a “work hiatus.” She ended up coming into a psychiatric facility, and followers quickly started to take a position that Jamie admitted her towards her will. The #FreeBritney motion additionally believed that the conservator was proscribing each facet of Brit’s life. The hypothesis additional escalated when the 2021 documentary Framing Britney Spears alleged that Britney’s cellular phone and bed room had been bugged by safety employees working for Jamie.
Later on, the star opened up about what she has handled for over a decade. In a courtroom listening to, she claimed her dad was “abusive,” and he pressured her to go on tour and into rehab and take psychiatric medication. Jamie allegedly managed a lot of her life that he wouldn’t even permit her to take away her IUD. But in response to those allegations, Jamie replied:
“All I can say is that most people don’t have a clue what the truth is. Her lawyer doesn’t have a clue what the truth is. The media has not heard the truth. They’ve heard the allegations from Britney. I don’t mind taking that beating because I know it’s not true, and because I don’t want to start something else. For my daughter to end up going further down the hole than she had been.”
When requested if he believed the conservatorship continued for too lengthy, he responded:
“I can’t answer that question. You can answer it yourself. Just look at how things are now.”
Wow…
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