Britney Spears has opened up about a dark period in her life, seemingly responding to ex-husband Kevin Federline’s recent allegations about her past behavior as a parent in excerpts from his upcoming memoir. In a lengthy Instagram post appearing to address the impact of a lengthy conservatorship on her life, Spears shared her belief that “brain damage happened to me.”
Accompanying a photo of Spears riding a horse, the pop singer’s note began by highlighting the plot of Maleficent and explaining how it resonated with her own life experiences. “Remember the king tried to kill her but instead a guy secretly took her wings but anything from the father in heaven the real father whom is the one I only claim who loves unconditionally,” she wrote. “Anything holy is never forgotten… her wings were holy so the king couldn’t take them not one person could say they were restored and hidden locked in a secret holy stain glass church… not that this has any relevance with me but I do find it incredibly interesting.”
Spears continued by referencing a “traumatic experience” that she says she mentioned in her 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, “where for 4 months I no longer had my private door and illegally was forced to not use my feet or body to go anywhere.”
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“Trust me there’s ALOT I didn’t share in my book and still things at this very moment I’ve kept hidden because its incredibly painful and sad,” she added, tying the film’s plot to her own life. “I do feel the logic and mindfulness in my body as ONE was 100 percent murdered and destroyed [because] I couldn’t dance or move for 5 months… I do feel like my wings were taken away and brain damage happened to me a long time ago 100 percent… I have of course moved on from that troubling time in my life and I’m blessed to be alive.”
In The Woman in Me, Spears said her father, Jamie, forced her to spend more than three months in rehab because “if I didn’t go, then I’d have to go to court, and I’d be embarrassed.” She also wrote that she was kept “locked up against my will for months” and “couldn’t go outside. I couldn’t drive a car. I had to give blood weekly. I couldn’t take a bath in private. I couldn’t shut the door to my room.”
In a separate Instagram post also shared on Sunday, Spears wrote about her relationship with her grandfather and revealed how he asked her to promise not to care about “what these ignorant people say and lie about you… He said you stay fearless… Don’t become crippled and scared and a person explaining yourself so you give them the entitlement to make you less than them.”
These posts come amid Federline’s promotional cycle for his upcoming book, You Thought You Knew. “To be loved unconditionally and with a naive heart like mine, always being threatened or made to believe I’m the bad one as they profit off my pain,” Spears wrote in a previous Instagram post. “I 100 percent beg to differ the way he is literally attacking me in his interviews.”