Jamie Spears, the father and arch enemy of singer Britney Spears, is going through a difficult time with his health. As media outlets like People and Page Six confirmed, the artist’s legal guardian for over a decade spent several weeks in the hospital due to a serious bacterial infection. The problem has progressed to the point where surgery is required. Spears was later admitted to a special facility for infectious disease patients and is now receiving intensive care in the hospital, but has already been seen at his home in Louisiana. The illness was “very serious,” say people close to him, but he is on the road to recovery and has left the greatest danger zone.
Apparently Jamie Spears’ illness has been going on for weeks. Back in August, several media outlets announced that he had to undergo surgery for a knee replacement. He already had this operation in the mid-2000s, but now it had to be done again. At this point he began to be seen more frequently in clinics and hospitals, where he showed significant weight loss.
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During these years, Jamie Spears became the target of complaints from her most popular daughter Britney – she has two others, actress Jamie Lynn Spears and film producer Bryan Spears. He was the one who kept the singer under legal and economic guardianship for more than 13 years, which prevented the artist from developing her life and career as she would have wanted, as she said in the trial she demanded her freedom as he later explained on his social networks. The Toxic interpreter was cared for by her father between 2008 and 2021.
In 2019, a movement began to demand her release and little by little she raised her voice and made it clear that it was Jamie who was holding her personally, professionally and economically. In June 2021, the singer stated in court about her father: “Your honor, my father should be in prison.” Then she said that she was forced to go to the psychiatrist “three times a week,” that she was forced to have an IUD to bear even though she wanted to get married and become pregnant, and that any custody was “an abuse.” In August of the same year, Jamie Spears renounced the guardianship and in September the judge finally revoked it.
Jamie Spears charged about $16,000 a month for guardianship of her daughter, who has an estimated net worth of more than $60 million. Testimony and documentation highlighted some of the practices he used toward his daughter during the final years of his incarceration. For example, The New York Times revealed that the family patriarch had hired a security company to control and monitor all of the artist’s communications, from calls to photos, notes, videos and text messages, as far as he knew what information she was sending She had and received it from her mother, friends or her then boyfriend (and later husband and now ex-husband), Sam Asghari. In fact, according to the employees who controlled this surveillance, Jamie was particularly interested in knowing Britney’s romantic relationships and her partners and whether they were “a bad influence” on her.
After losing custody, a tough battle began for Britney and Jamie. She accused him of wanting to keep $2 million from her after the trial. He, on the other hand, assured that the guardianship had “saved the life” of his daughter, who was going through a serious psychological crisis at the end of the 2000s. “To protect them and also the children, guardianship was a great tool. Without that, I don’t think I would have gotten the kids back,” she said in an interview with the Chron late last year, referring to the two children the singer had with dancer Kevin Federline named Sean Preston and Jayden James, and with whom neither Jamie nor Britney maintain a relationship despite their will. “I was ruined. I had no money. “The guardianship allowed the finances to improve,” Jamie said of the artist.
Despite everything, she has announced that she plans to take her father to court and demand back the money he allegedly kept. She is still at odds with him and there is no known relationship between them, although some tabloids suggested over the summer that there may have been some rapprochement between them. At the moment, Britney has spent a vacation with friends on a paradise island and has already returned to her home in Los Angeles, where a few days ago she scared her fans by dancing with knives – she said they were fake – and that has she didn’t comment on his father’s health. We’ll have to wait until the end of the month to hear her first-hand version of their relationship in her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” which hits bookstores October 24.