the overwhelming impression is that Jamie was, at best, an absent father who only took an interest in his daughter when the opportunity to run the conservatorship arose.
During her childhood, he was a heavy drinker with little direct involvement in his daughter’s career. It was her mother Lynne, meanwhile, who was the saintly one, always supporting Britney’s ambition – driving eight-year-old Britney the 500 miles from their Louisiana home to audition for the Mickey Mouse Club and moving to a New York sublet so Britney could attend stage school.
As public opinion has turned decisively against the conservatorship, Lynne has aligned herself with her daughter over her ex-husband (the couple divorced in 2002, though they appear to have.
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