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Britney Spears is not only revealing the complicated matters of her personal life in her new memoir but that of her entire family.
In The Woman in Me, the pop star recalls the disturbing past of her father Jamie Spears‘ dad June Spears Sr., who allegedly abused his young daughter for years. According to the singer, her paternal grandfather started to abuse her aunt — who was just 11 at the time — and the gross behavior lasted for five years. The 41-year-old wrote:
Whoa. It only stopped once she ran away?? Terrible.
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June, who was an officer for the Baton Rouge Police Department and died in 2012, welcomed ten children with three wives. Frankly, he just wasn’t seen as a good man, Britney acknowledged:
Umm, is this also a dig at her brother, Bryan Spears?! Oof!
The songwriter’s aunt, Leigh Ann Spears Wrather, actually first spoke out about the alleged abuse in an interview with the New York Post in 2021, saying she’d go to church — where her dad was a deacon — and he’d make her perform sexual acts on the way home. She told the outlet:
So, so awful.
While those before her had to experience June’s wrath, Britney went on to say in her tell-all that he “softened as he got older,” noting:
Per DM, Britney also addressed the cruel way her grandfather allegedly treated the women in his life. That includes allegations that he had two of his three wives locked up in a “horrible” mental asylum in Mandeville, Louisiana. The Circus singer’s grandmother, Emma Jean Forbes — Jamie’s momma — was even allegedly put on the drug lithium following the death of her son, who died at just three days old.
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