Britney Spears calls out father Jamie Spears and sister Jamie Lynn in expletive-filled post

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Britney Spears unleashed another furious expletive-laden Instagram post on Friday that called out her father Jamie Spears and her younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears.

The 39-year-old pop superstar restated that she wouldn’t be performing at her Las Vegas residency again as long as her father was in charge of her conservatorship.

‘This conservatorship killed my dreams,’ she wrote among her list of grievances. 

Britney began by defending her many dancing videos posted to her Instagram account and explaining that her father Jamie was the reason why fans could only see her perform at home for now.

‘Look I’m not gonna be performing on any stages anytime soon with my dad handling what I wear, say, do, or think!!!! I’ve done that for the past 13 years,’ she said. ‘I’d much rather share videos YES from my living room instead of onstage in Vegas…’

She added that some guests were so inebriated that ‘they couldn’t even shake my hand,’ and she said others had smoked so much marijuana that she ‘ended up getting a contact high.’

The Toxic singer also wrote that she was ‘not gonna put on heavy makeup and try try try on stage again’ if she couldn’t perform the original versions of her songs that appeared on her albums.

Instead, she had been forced to do ‘remixes of my songs for years’ and hadn’t been allowed to ‘put my new music in my show for MY FANS… so I quit!!!’  

Britney reserved some special fury for her sister Jamie Lynn Spears, who made a surprise performance at the 2017 Radio Disney Music Awards to cap off a tribute with a performance of her sister’s song Till The World Ends. 

In video of the performance, the songstress joins her mother in standing and clapping along with the song, but she appears to look less than enthused.

‘I don’t like that my sister showed up at an awards show and performed MY SONGS to remixes!!!!!’ she admitted. ‘My so-called support system hurt me deeply!!!!

‘This conservatorship killed my dreams,’ she continued, ‘so all I have is hope and hope is the only thing in this world that is very hard to kill … yet people still try!!!!’

Britney also reiterated how uncomfortable recent documentaries, including the New York Times Presents documentary Framing Britney Spears, had drudged up painful memories.

‘I didn’t like the way the documentaries bring up humiliating moments from the past… I’m way past all that and have been for a long time!!!!’

The entertainer even defended her love of fairy tale endings and told ‘women’ who ‘say it’s weird’ to ‘go f*** yourself.’ 

‘As I said … hope is all I have right now … you’re lucky I post anything at all,’ she added. 

‘People try to kill hope because hope is one of the most vulnerable and fragile things there is!!!! I’m gonna go read a mother f***ing fairy tale now!!!!’ she concluded on a confrontational note, adding the postcript, ‘Psss if you don’t want to see my precious a** dancing in my living room or it’s not up to your standards … go read a f***ing book!!!!!’  

The day before, Britney had shared her outrage at the ‘people closest’ to her who had failed to help her in her time of need.

The 39-year-old pop superstar lashed out in a lengthy Instagram post at people in her orbit who had only started speaking out in support of her after her conservatorship received heavy public scrutiny.

Despite her angry tone, she avoided mention any specific names, simply writing that they ‘know who [they] are,’ though she may have been referring to her father and sister based on her most recent post.

Spears posted a short text snippet summarizing her position.

‘Never forget who ignored you when you needed them and who helped you before you even had to ask,’ it read.

She went into more specifics in her lengthy caption and sounded notably more upset than she usually allows herself to be on social media.

‘There’s nothing worse than when the people closest to you who never showed up for you post things in regard to your situation whatever it may be and speak righteously for support … there’s nothing worse than that!!!!’ she wrote. 

Though she didn’t name names, Britney indicated they were part of her closest inner circle by calling them ‘the people you love the most.’  

‘How dare you make it public that NOW you CARE … did you put your hand out when I was drowning????’ she continued. ‘Again … NO …’

The Toxic singer added that the people she was targeting likely knew she was mad at them. 

‘If you’re reading this and you know who you are … and you actually have the nerve to say anything about my situation just to save face for yourself publicly!!! If you’re gonna post something …. Please stop with the righteous approach when you’re so far from righteous it’s not even funny,’ she added, before adding, ‘And have a good day!!!!!’

After airing her grievances, Britney added words of encouragement to others who were dealing with a lack of support: ‘If you’re reading this today and you can relate …. I’m sorry because I know what it’s like … and I send you my love!!!!’

The entertainer’s post arrived a day after her sister Jamie Lynn Spears, 30, posted a message to her Instagram Stories reading: ‘Dear Lord, can we end this bulls**t once and for all? Amen.’

The 30-year-old Zoey 101 star took to Instagram a day after her older sister won the right to appoint her own lawyer and moved one step closer to ending her 13-year conservatorship.

Jamie Lynn has previously spoken out about her sister’s situation, saying last month: ‘I’m so proud of her for using her voice. If ending the conservatorship… or whatever the hell else she wants to do to be happy — I support that…

‘I am so proud of her for requesting new counsel like I told her to do many years ago. I’m not my family, I’m my own person. I’m speaking for myself.’ 

Britney’s mother Lynne Spears also shared a cryptic biblical post after the news of her daughter’s court victory.

She shared a Bible verse from the Gospel of John to her Instagram on Friday, telling her 41k followers: ‘The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ 

Others who are further removed from Britney’s inner circle, including the rapper Iggy Azalea and her childhood friend Jason Alexander, whom she was married to for 55 hours, have recently spoken out about her conservatorship.

After Britney shared her celebratory video on Wednesday, her boyfriend Sam Asghari shared a message of support for the star. 

Showing his love for Britney and the #FreeBritney movement, Iranian–American personal trainer and actor Sam Asghari, 27, wrote underneath: ‘Internet is about to explode!’, amid her bid to have her father Jamie relinquish control of her life. 

Britney had earlier addressed the court by phone in an emotional plea for freedom, and the right to chose her own legal representation.

She then posted the video which first showed her horse riding in an arena on a lead rein. The video then showed her cartwheeling for joy beside a pond.

Britney captioned the clip: ‘Coming along, folks… coming along!!!!! New with real representation today… I feel GRATITUDE and BLESSED!!!… 

‘Thank you to my fans who are supporting me … You have no idea what it means to me be supported by such awesome fans !!!! God bless you all !!!!!’

She then added: ‘Pssss this is me celebrating by horseback riding and doing cartwheels today!!!! #FreeBritney’. 

Sam — her boyfriend of three years — then added his Internet comment, in his latest loyal show of display for the star he has supported through the case.  

Hours before, the singer told a court in LA that she wants her father charged with conservatorship abuse, during a hearing in which a judge agreed to her appointing her own lawyer, to bring about an end to the arrangement. 

Speaking on the phone, an emotional Britney said: ‘I would like to charge my father with conservatorship abuse. I want to press charges against my father today. I want an investigation into my dad.’ 

She described once again the torment of her conservatorship, in a repeat of her explosive June 23 testimony.

Britney claimed her father and others involved in the conservatorship had threatened her, and added: ‘There should be no threats to me at all, ever. I have serious abandonment issues.’ 

She said that her car keys, hair vitamins and coffee had been taken from her. 

She tearfully told Judge Brenda Penny, according to Sky News: ‘Ma’am, that’s not abuse, that’s just f****** cruelty. Excuse my language but it’s the truth.’

Britney then told the court: ‘I thought they were trying to kill me. If this is not abuse, I don’t know what is.’ 

Breaking down, Britney then requested a short break to compose herself. She called for her father be removed from the complex legal arrangement and be charged with ‘conservatorship abuse’. 

She wants the conservatorship terminated without the need for a medical assessment, but said her priority was ousting her father from his role while allowing co-conservator Jodi Montgomery to remain in the meantime.

Britney said: ‘My dad needs to be removed today and I will be happy with Jodi helping me’. 

During her testimony, the judge asked Britney to slow down so the court reporter could take it all down: ‘I’m here to press charges. I’m angry and I will go there.’ 

Before she spoke, supporters of the #FreeBritney movement gathered outside Los Angeles Supreme Court for the hearing, where the star’s hand-picked attorney Mathew Rosengart was appointed to take over her case.

Judge Penny approved his request, meaning that for the first time since the conservatorship was brought in in 2008, Spears has a lawyer of her own choosing representing her. 

On June 23, Spears told the court: ‘I haven’t really had the opportunity by my own self to actually handpick my own lawyer by myself. And I would like to be able to do that.’  

Rosengart told the court on Wednesday he would be filing paperwork in the next few week to end the arrangement that has been in place since 2008. 

Once the hearing concluded, Rosengart told a press conference on the steps of the courthouse that Jamie Spears should voluntarily step down as conservator.  

He said: ‘We will be moving promptly and aggressively for his removal. The question remains, why is he involved? He should step down voluntarily because that’s what’s in the best interest of the conservatee.’

Rosengart praised Britney’s ‘courage, passion, and humanity’ for speaking out in court, and called her testimony ‘clear, lucid, powerful, and compelling.’

‘My firm and I will be taking a top to bottom look at what’s happened over the past decade,’ said Rosengart.  

Rosengart’s argument was that the singer ‘is entitled to due process, which includes the right to a competent lawyer’, TMZ reported. 

The argument was feared to present a challenge because the terms of the conservatorship mean Spears is prevented from signing any legally binding contracts without her father’s permission. 

Rosengart argued against this, saying that Jamie should not have the power to reject her choice of lawyer – given that her lawyer is representing her in a case against Jamie himself.   

Rosengart is well known as an attorney to the stars having represented a number of high-profile Hollywood clients, including Steven Spielberg, Ben Affleck and his brother Casey, Sean Penn and director Michael Mann. 

Judge Penny also agreed a petition filed by wealth management firm Bessemer Trust to remove itself as a co-conservator of Spears’ multimillion-dollar estate.

This comes after her longtime court-appointed attorney Samuel Ingham resigned in the wake of Spears’ bombshell court appearance on June 23 where she pleaded for the ‘abusive’ conservatorship to end. 

Britney on June 23 told that she believed she was not allowed to choose her own attorney.

She said: ‘I was on tour in 2018. I was forced to do… My management said if I don’t do this tour, I will have to find an attorney, and by contract my own management could sue me if I didn’t follow through with the tour. 

‘He handed me a sheet of paper as I got off the stage in Vegas and said I had to sign it. It was very threatening and scary. And with the conservatorship, I couldn’t even get my own attorney. So out of fear, I went ahead and I did the tour.’ 

She gave explosive testimony in last month’s hearing where she accused her father of controlling her life and fortune for the last 13 years and likened her situation to that of a sex-trafficked person.