Jamie Spears, the father of Britney Spears, has apparently agreed to step down from his role as guardian for certain matters of the pop singer “when the time is right”. This is reported by several US media and the British Guardian citing court documents.
If Jamie Spears was serious about this and actually stepped down as guardian, it would be a big change for the singer, who has long tried to escape her father’s control.
Britney Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart viewed the news as a great victory for his client. Your father should resign immediately, he said in a message from the trade journal Variety has been published. In July, Rosengart had applied to the court to replace her father as guardian of the famous daughter.
In the court documents wrote that Guardian According to a lawyer Jamie Spears’ that his client does not believe that “a public fight with his daughter” over his guardianship is good for her. The father wants to continue working with the court to enable an orderly transition to a new guardian.
In June, Britney Spears gave an emotional speech at a court hearing calling for an end to guardianship over her person and finances. “I’m not happy, I can’t sleep. I’m so angry, that’s crazy. And I’m depressed. I cry every day,” said the 39-year-old.
The singer spoke of abuse. She feels that her family and managers have taken advantage of her, that she is controlled by everyone and that she cannot determine her own life. She wishes that the whole world would now know the truth. She accused her parents of exploitation. They would benefit from their money and control their private life. Most of all, she would like to sue her family, Spears said.
The singer attacked her then 68-year-old father particularly sharply. “He loved” therefore to exercise power over them. “I worked seven days a week … it was like sex trafficking. I didn’t have a credit card, no cash, or my passport.” She was treated like a slave under the tutelage. Everyone involved belonged in jail.
After the hearing, Jamie Spears made a brief statement through his attorney Vivian Thoreen. “He is sorry to see that his daughter is suffering and in pain,” Variety quoted from the solicitor’s statement. “Mr. Spears loves his daughter and misses her very much.”
Spears began her career as a child star at the Mickey Mouse Club and was one of the most successful pop singers in the 1990s. This was followed by publicly documented drinking bouts, separations, a custody battle and a stay in a psychiatric clinic. In 2008 she was incapacitated by a court in Los Angeles following an urgent petition from her father. Numerous photos from the gossip press served as evidence.