Britney Spears isn’t holding back. In a Sunday Instagram post, the 44-year-old singer declared she“will find a new family”and accused her relatives of betrayal, claiming they made her feel“like a slave.”She specifically said her sister Jamie Lynn never let her hold niece Ivey during a 2020 Louisiana visit, and also aimed at ex-husband Kevin Federline over bathroom access at his home. The post came with a picture of Dakota Fanning’s“Uptown Girls”character raising a middle finger, just to make the mood crystal clear.
A source close to Jamie Lynn, 35, told Page Six on Monday that she and husband Jamie Watson aren’t worried about the post at all. The insider insisted Britney did hold Ivey, now 8, and that“Ivey loves her”aunt. Representatives for everyone named in the post didn’t respond to requests for comment, which means we’re left with two very different versions of the same family memory.
This is far from the first chapter in the Spears family saga, and it won’t be the last. The conservatorship fallout turned Britney’s relationship with her relatives into a permanent public conversation, and every new post pulls the audience right back in. Where do you land: is posting about family drama a way to take your power back, or just fuel for the fire? Sound off in the comments.
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