Britney Spears and her mom seem to be taking to Instagram to work through a disagreement from the star’s recent memoir.
At the end of a caption in an Instagram post, the 41-year-old responded to her mom claiming that she never threw away the singer’s journals and dolls — as Britney Spears said her family did in her newly released memoir, “The Woman in Me.”
“Ps mom I love you so so much, but there were 3 dolls in the cabinets when I went home 2 years ago … kinda really weird you would take them out and then put them back in … so messed up,” she wrote. “Nope, I don’t want them. Keep it all. I honestly don’t care anymore … honestly though.” The note to her mom came at the end of a post about Britney Spears' first interaction with Taylor Swift.
Britney Spears originally claimed in her memoir that her family threw away some of her precious items while she was away at a mental institution.
“It was during this period of time with my family that I learned that while I’d been in the mental health facility, they’d thrown away a lot of what I had stored at my mother’s house,” she said. “The Madame Alexander dolls I’d collected as a girl were all gone. So were three years’ worth of my writing. I had a binder full of poetry that had real meaning for me. All gone.”
Her mother, Lynne Spears, responded to her daughter’s claims earlier this month on Instagram, explaining that she kept Britney Spears’ writings and dolls. The post included multiple photos of the figurines and a picture of a journal.
Lynne Spears wrote, “@britneyspears I’m not sure who told you I got rid of your dolls and journals but I would never do that! That would be cruel because I know how much they mean to you.”
The pop icon’s mother said the items were meaningful to her, as well, since she helped her daughter collect them.
“Of course I still have your things, and I am happy to send them to you if you’d like me to. Please let me know and know how much I love you!” she wrote.
She addressed her daughter directly in the caption, writing, “@britneyspears I’m not sure who told you I got rid of your dolls and journals but I would never do that! That would be cruel because I know how much they mean to you.”
Lynne Spears said the items were meaningful to her, too, because she helped her daughter collect them.
“Of course I still have your things, and I am happy to send them to you if you’d like me to. Please let me know and know how much I love you!” she concluded.
Britney Spears made other unfavorable allegations about her family in the book, particularly her father, Jamie Spears. The businessman was appointed to be her co-conservator with lawyer Andrew Wallet in 2008.
“No matter how hard I dieted and exercised, my father was always telling me I was fat,” she said.
She also wrote that her father prevented her from going to the doctor when she wanted to have her IUD removed.
Britney Spears said she felt “relief” when her conservatorship was terminated in September 2021.
“The man who had scared me as a child and ruled over me as an adult, who had done more than anyone to undermine my self-confidence, was no longer in control of my life,” she explained.
In a statement to TODAY.com, Jamie Spears said per his attorney, Alex Weingarten, that he will not comment on his daughter’s memoir.