Britney Spears has said she feels “lucky to be alive” after the way she says her family treated her, sharing the comments in a candid social media post this week that also touched on isolation and forgiveness.
In her Wednesday Instagram message, Spears wrote that “Yearning and longing for contact is always crucial !!!” and added: “I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive with how my family treated me once in my life and now I’m scared of them,” Page Six reported.
Spears also said that, while people can forgive, they do not forget, writing: “For those of you in your family that have (sic) said to help you is to isolate you and make you feel unbelievably left out … they were wrong. We can forgive as people but u don’t ever forget.” She did not name relatives in the post.
The remarks arrive years after Spears spent 13 years in a conservatorship, which ran from 2008 to 2021 and placed control of her finances and personal decisions in the hands of her father, Jamie Spears. In recent months, Britpop News has also reported on family developments around the singer, including that her older son has been described as “keeping his distance”.
A representative for Spears was not immediately available for comment, according to the report. The latest post signals the continuing sensitivity around Spears’ family relationships as she publicly reflects on her past and her sense of safety in the present.
