Britney Spears believes her parents, Jamie Spears and Lynne Spears, along with an unnamed woman, have “premeditated” plans to put her in a conservatory.
In a short audio clip posted briefly to YouTube on Sunday, the 40-year-old pop star recounted the moments leading up to her second hospitalization in January 2008 for an involuntary psychiatric arrest.
“Honestly, to this day I don’t know what I did,” Britney said. “You have to imagine that I didn’t understand it.”
The “Hold Me Closer” singer said that the night before police and medics arrived at her home, she had a sleepover with Lynne, now 67, two friends and a friend of her mother’s. She didn’t name the latter, but previous reports identified Lynne’s friend as Jacqueline Butcher.
Britney said in the audio clip that her mother was seemingly trying to warn her of the impending hospitalization, telling her she had “heard” people coming to “talk” to the “Toxic” singer and even suggested, “‘We should probably go. to a hotel or something.’
“I never really understood what she meant,” said the “Overprotected” singer. ‘I didn’t believe her. For example, will there be a lawyer? Who comes here?”
Britney said about four hours after that conversation, “more than 200” paparazzi filmed her through an ambulance window as she was being taken away.
“I now know it was all premeditated,” she claimed. “A woman introduced the idea to my father, and my mother helped him to actually execute it and made it all possible.”
Britney didn’t go into detail about the “woman” who allegedly introduced the idea of custody to Jamie, but Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group CEO Lou Taylor has been accused of playing a critical role in the custody battle.
Lynne Spears was one of the first to mention Taylor, 57, in her 2008 book “Through the Storm.”
“Jamie was supposed to apply to the Conservatoire on Jan. 22…but he and his business manager, Lou, felt that God was leading them to wait, fast and pray, despite the frustration of a phalanx of lawyers,” the wrote the advisor to Rodans and Fields.
More recently, emails Taylor allegedly sent to Jamie at the beginning of the Conservatory in July were included in public court documents.
In one of the exchanges, the company manager warned Britney’s father that she had “talked” to his then-lawyers, Geraldine Wyle and Jeryll Cohen, about Andrew Wallet, the lawyer who would help manage Britney’s money for 11 years, and that Wallet and Tri Star would “serve as cos” [co-conservators]’ with Jamie.
However, attorney Scott Edelman previously told Vidak For Congress on behalf of Taylor that the emails are “materially misleading.”
“As all the evidence makes abundantly clear, the conservatory was founded on the recommendation of a legal counsel, not Tri Star, and approved by the court for over 12 years. [sic] years,” the lawyer added. “In fact, Tri Star wasn’t even the conservatory’s business owner when it was founded.”
Taylor has also denied her role at the conservatory, claiming in a statement to Vidak For Congress in September 2021 that she “played no part at all”.
However, Britney insisted in her awesome audio clip that she was “frustrated.”
“There was no drugs in my system, no alcohol, nothing,” the “Stronger” singer insisted. “It was pure abuse, and I haven’t even shared half of it.”
Butcher, Lynne’s boyfriend, came forward earlier to express her regret for the role she played.
“At the time, I thought we were helping,” she told the New Yorker in July 2021. “And I wasn’t, and I was helping a corrupt family seize all this control.”
A Los Angeles judge ended Britney’s Conservatory in November 2021, saying it was “no longer necessary”.