Britney Spears responds to sister Jamie Lynn's claims from Good Morning America interview
The younger Spears sister is set to release Things I Should Have Said on January 18
On Wednesday, Jamie Lynn Spears went on Good Morning America to promote her upcoming memoir, Things I Should Have Said. During the interview, she opened up about her complicated relationship with sister Britney Spears and admitted that they are not currently on speaking terms. Following the interview, Britney took to Twitter to respond to claims her sister made in the book and on television.
In the interview, it’s mentioned that Jamie Lynn’s memoir details an incident where Britney allegedly took a knife, said she was scared, and locked herself and Jamie Lynn in a room.
When asked why she decided to include the alleged incident in the book, Jamie Lynn said she simply wanted to highlight her own history of panic attacks. “First off, I think that experiencing my own panic attacks and how sometimes we can feel in those moments is important,” she said. “But also it’s important to remember that I was a kid in that moment. I was scared.”
Though reporter Juju Chang also noted that Jamie Lynn uses the words “erratic,” “paranoid,” and “spiraling” to describe her sister in the book, Jamie Lynn declined to comment on Britney’s current state of mind. “I can’t really speak to anyone else’s state of mind. I don’t think that’s fair,” she said.
In Britney’s lengthy Twitter response, she wrote, “The 2 things that did bother me that my sister said was how my behavior was out of control. She never was around me much 15 years ago at that time… so why are they even talking about that unless she wants to sell a book at my expense?”
At another point in the interview, Chang brought up the fact that Britney was vocal about not approving of her sister’s performance at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards. During the performance, Jamie Lynn was part of a remix medley featuring Britney’s songs, and she sang “Till The World Ends.”
Britney wrote in an Instagram post last July, “I don’t like that my sister showed up at an awards show and performed MY SONGS to remixes !!!!! My so-called support system hurt me deeply !!!! This conservatorship killed my dreams…” As she explained in the post, she wasn’t allowed to perform remixes of her songs, so to see her sister Jamie Lynn do so was hurtful.