New Jamie Lynn Spears book reveals toxic family drama with sister Britney
nypost.com“paranoid and erratic” Britney Spears once wielded a knife and locked herself in a room with her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears, according to the latter’s new memoir.The frightening incident — which the younger Spears details in “Things I Should Have Said,” out this week — supposedly occurred in the aftermath of Britney’s quickie marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander, and their subsequent annulment, in 2004.“[Britney] said to me, ‘Baby, I’m scared,’ and took a large knife from the kitchen, pulled me along to my room, and she locked us both inside,” Jamie Lynn, 30, writes. “She put the knife in the bedside table drawer and simply repeated, ‘I’m scared.’ She needed me to sleep beside her . . .
I knew something was very wrong, and I was powerless to do anything about it.”(For her part, Britney denied the allegation in a Twitter post: “I’ve never been around you ever with a knife or would I ever even think to do such !!!” she wrote, addressing Jamie Lynn directly.)“Things I Should Have Said” arrives amid a very public feud between the sisters.
It started during the Free Britney movement and has continued through the subsequent end of the 13-year conservatorship — which also has the 40-year-old singer warring with their father, Jamie.
Suffice to say, the family dynamic has seemed “Toxic.”But things weren’t always so strained between Britney and Jamie Lynn. In fact, the actress writes that during her childhood, her older sister “became like a second mother to me.
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