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Andy Cohen Claps Back at Jen Shah for Calling Him Out Amid RHOSLC Finale Scandal

CelebrityGossipers — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 02:42:23 +0000

Andy Cohen responded to Jen Shah after The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum called him out specifically while addressing Heather Gay’s black eye allegations.

Andy Cohen is not chill with Jen Shah‘s recent comments from prison.

After The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum denied Heather Gay‘s claim that she was the one who gave her a black eye during season three of the Bravo series, Cohen clapped back at Shah’s allegation the altercation never happened because there would be footage to prove it.

“I don’t want to be captain obvious here, but if we had footage, don’t you think we would’ve aired it?” the Watch What Happens Live host said on his radio show SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live Jan. 3. “Heather’s saying, ‘I don’t know how I got the black eye,’ and then don’t you think we would’ve cut to the footage with a chyron that said, ‘Four hours earlier?'”

Shah also specifically called out Cohen in her Instagram post from prison, claiming he’s “still butt hurt” she turned down an interview with him following her legal drama. As for his response?

“I had forgotten about the one-on-one with Jen,” he continued. “She is right, I did want to do a one-on-one with her. I don’t care about it anymore. I’m over it. Her stipulations were insane.”

The 55-year-old recounted that Shah “wanted us to do a docuseries of her days leading up to jail,” adding, “She wanted a lot of money and she was still professing her innocence, so it would’ve been another interview of her sitting across from me lying to my face, which we got at two reunions from her, so that’s that.”

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Cohen did however find some humor in the timing of Shah’s comments after he was recently scammed by someone pretending to be his bank.

“As someone who was just the victim of an online and phone scam where I lost a lot of money, this message comes at an interesting time,” he noted of Shah, who plead guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in 2022. “I just need to predicate that I’m a current victim of fraud, which is what she is in jail for. I’m not connecting her, I’m not saying that she’s responsible for it, but I’m just saying it’s ironic.”

See the black eye drama play out when The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City‘s season four reunion kicks off Jan. 9 at 8 p.m. on Bravo.

And keep reading for some of the most explosive Real Housewives reunion moments in Bravo history.

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Teresa vs. the Gorgas, The Real Housewives of New Jersey

After feuding RHONJ‘s entire 13th season, Teresa Giudice declared she was done with brother Joe Gorga and sister-in-law Melissa Gorga…forever.

Melissa and Teresa exchanged endless jabs and the fighting got so bad at one point, Andy Cohen reprimanded the co-stars. “Stop!” he yelled. “I swear to god, you guys are like f–king kindergarteners. It’s crazy, you don’t grow!”

The reunion ended with Joe sharing parting words after Teresa made it clear she wanted him out of her life. “You know what the best thing to do is?” he proposed. “Forget about me, I will forget about you. That’s it. Do your thing, leave me alone, leave everybody alone, live your f–king lives.”

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Kathy Hilton vs. Lisa Rinna, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna came face to face for the first time since the dramatic fallout of Kathy’s alleged Aspen “meltdown” during RHOBH‘s season 12 reunion in 2022. Though Kathy apologized to sister Kyle Richards for allegedly bad-mouthing her, Kathy and Lisa had yet to settle their bitter feud and the tension was palpable through the TV screen.

Kathy denied all of the name-calling Lisa accused her of—which included insults like “stupid,” “useless” and “pieces of s–t.”

Kathy and Lisa’s heated confrontation hit a climax when Kathy accused Lisa of trying to make her look bad to save her job on the show.”You did it on camera because you’re contract was coming up and you needed some drama because you fight with everybody,” Kathy claimed. “You drove Lisa Vanderpump off the show, what you did to my sister [Kim Richards], you’ve had problems with everybody. With Camille Grammer, I mean the list can go on and on. And then saying you’ve been bullied? You are the biggest bully in Hollywood and everyone knows it. You’re mean and you don’t tell the truth.”

Lisa left the series after the showdown.

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Kelly vs. Braunwyn, The Real Housewives of Orange County

RHOC‘s season 15 reunion was heated with many co-stars coming after Braunwyn Windham-Burke. But it was Kelly Dodd‘s explosive claims that Braunwyn is a “fake alcoholic” and only using her sobriety for a “storyline” that shocked fans and Andy Cohen alike.

“[Do you know] how dangerous this is to everyone out there in recovery right now?” Braunwyn fired back at Kelly. “You are disgusting. This is vile even for you.”

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Bunnygate The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Kim Richards and Lisa Rinna‘s long-standing feud has delivered a number of iconic RHOBH moments, including Bunnygate. As uncomfortable as it was to watch, Bunnygate will forever have a place in the Real Housewives reunion hall of fame.

It all started during RHOBH season seven, when Lisa Rinna bought Kim Richards’ newborn grandson a stuffed bunny as a peace offering. Then, when it came time for the reunion, Kim revealed that she couldn’t accept the gift, let alone gift it to her grandson because “it didn’t feel like it had good energy.”

The result? A lone tear falling down Rinna’s face before she stormed off set.

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“That’s My Opinion!” The Real Housewives of Orange County

Brooks Ayers was at the center of many RHOC fights, including this one between Tamra Judge and Vicki Gunvalson in season nine. Tamra starts out calm, defending her position, but as per usual, things escalated, and it ended with Vicki and Tamra shouting at each other until Tamra infamously shouted, “Because that’s my opinion!”

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Let’s Get Physical, The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Porsha Williams and Kenya Moore have had their fair share of fights on RHOA, but the reunion where things got physical is another level. Kenya pulled out a megaphone and that seemed to be the last straw for Porsha, who then got in Kenya’s face and pulled her to the ground by her hair while Andy Cohen shouted, “No, no, now!”

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Everyone vs. Michael Darby, The Real Housewives of Potomac

Gizelle Bryant, Karen Huger, Robyn Dixon, Monique Samuels and Candiace Dillard Bassett all used the RHOP season four reunion to grill Ashley Darby‘s husband about the sexual assault charges brought against him (that were later dismissed), but Michael Darby just repeatedly shut them down.

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Star of the Show, The Real Housewives of Dallas

LeeAnne Locken and D’Andra Simmons found themselves arguing about perhaps the most amusing thing ever at the season three RHOD reunion: who the star of the show is.

More specifically, LeeAnne saw herself as the reason the franchise still existed, while D’Andra said the show wouldn’t have started in the first place had it not been for her.

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“Jesus Jugs,” The Real Housewives of Orange County

Tamra Judge doesn’t back down, especially at reunions. The RHOC cast member is quick to scream louder than anyone to make her point heard, and she even throws in insults to boot. Never forget her back and forth with Alexis Bellino over her behavior. “You are psychotic Jesus Jugs!” Tamra shouts.

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What Danielle Did, The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Travel with us back to a time of innocence, back to 2009 when RHONJ season one reunion aired. Viewers all remember Teresa Giudice’s infamous table flip, but what came next was Danielle Staub and Caroline Manzo‘s intense, tearful standoff over what Danielle “did” to Dina Manzo. What did she do? We’ve got you covered.

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“Maybe he’s gay?” The Real Housewives of Miami

During the third and final RHOM reunion, the ladies got into it about Joanna Krupa‘s sex life, then Adriana De Moura said maybe Romain was gay. This caused the two to go back and forth, hurling insults. Joanna then called Romain who said maybe Adriana wants to be with him…To that, Adriana said, “No, I don’t Why do I want a man with a limp penis?”

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Briana vs. Brooks, The Real Housewives of Orange County

Ick. Vicki Gunvalson‘s daughter Briana Culberson went toe-to-toe with Brooks Ayers a number of times at RHOC reunions, but the moment where they got heated over Brooks’ message to her husband Ryan where he told her to hit her to get her to “fall in line.”

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Danielle vs. Teresa, The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Teresa Giudice can have quite the temper on RHONJ. That was evident in the season two reunion where she jumped off the couch and lunged after Danielle Staub. Andy Cohen got in her way and Teresa shoved him. This reunion also gave birth to a very meme’d moment, Danielle saying and then Teresa repeating, “One at a time!” These days the ladies are as thick as thieves.

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“Who’s yelling?” The Real Housewives of New Jersey

Family feuds are nothing new to RHONJ, but they went to the next level with Teresa Giudice and her cousins Rosie Pierri and Kathy Wakile. Teresa and Kathy got into it over fathers. Rosie, backstage, got so heated she started screaming about wanting to rip off Teresa’s head. Her shouting didn’t go unnoticed and Tre made some very meme’d faces.

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The Sisters Richards, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Kim Richards and Kyle Richards have a complicated relationship, one that viewers have followed on screen for some time. During the season five reunion, which was pretty dramatic for just about everyone, Kyle and Kim got into it yet again, this time over Kim’s dog biting Kyle’s daughter, which started the feud. The sisters went back and forth the whole reunion, with Kim screaming, “You’re horrible! This is why I don’t like her!” and Kyle yelling, “You’re so f–king mean!” at various points of the reunion.

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“Blubber,” The Real Housewives of New Jersey

The RHONJ season four reunion was one of the record books in terms of fights. Who can forget Teresa Giudice and Caroline Manzo‘s split screen action that featured Teresa saying, “Look at yourself, you have three rolls: Blubber, blubber and blubber” to Caroline in a battle over looks.

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Stonewall Singer, The Real Housewives of New York City

Back in season seven of RHONY, Andy Cohen tried to get Ramona Singer to open up about her marriage problems with Mario Singer. She didn’t budge, and things got downright tense between the reality star and host. Then Luann de Lesseps entered the fray and the conversation got even more intense when she brought up Ramona’s past comments about her marriage.

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“Lie-ann,” The Real Housewives of New York City

Bethenny Frankel has sparred with just about everyone at a RHONY reunion. Back in season eight she and Luann de Lesseps went at it in a particularly nasty fight over whether or not Bethenny was dating a married man after Luann’s tryst in Turks and Caicos.

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Battle of the Texts, The Real Housewives of New York City

Season 10 of RHONY was a bad one for Bethenny Frankel and Carole Radziwill‘s friendship, and the reunion was even worse.

There, the two went back and forth a number of times, but there’s no forgetting when both ladies ripped out their phones in an attempt to discredit the other.

Bethenny and Carole’s debate centered on a text message from Brian in the Red Scarf Speed Dating Guy (his actual name in Bethenny’s phone), and things get so heated at one point that B jumps up and yells, “Booyah b-tch!”

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Kim vs. NeNe: Round 1, The Real Housewives of Atlanta

NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak-Biermann have had more ups and downs than we can count. The two went at it from the start during the RHOA season one reunion over what Big Papa said about NeNe and a season’s worth of comments. Things escalated quickly and NeNe coined, “Close your legs to married men!”

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Kim’s Last Stand, The Real Housewives of Atlanta

After a season-long fight, things finally came to a head for Kim Zolciak-Biermann and NeNe Leakes at the RHOA season 10 reunion. Not only did Kim face-off with NeNe, but pretty much every other cast member joined the fray over Kim and her comments that were perceived as racist. At the end of the reunion, Andy Cohen confronted a teary Kim and the two had it out in the bathroom.

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“The Lies!” The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Kandi Burruss and Phaedra Parks had one epic season nine reunion battle during season nine. Kandi was finally able to call Phaedra out on “the lies” she was spreading all season and they were some vicious lies, including allegations of drugging and rape.

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Season 5, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Season five of RHOBH had so much juicy drama, so of course the reunion did too. Brandi Glanville sparred with both Lisa Rinna and Lisa Vanderpump. Kim Richards and Lisa R. rehashed all sorts of drama and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Tweet Receipts, The Real Housewives of Potomac

When Andy Cohen brought up Candiace Dillard Bassett‘s social media posts about the other RHOP women—namely, Ashley Darby—he went as far as reading one of her particularly nasty tweets aloud, prompting a heated exchange between the two ladies.

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“A Fawn Amongst Sharks” The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Erika Jayne and Teddi Mellencamp faced off at the season 8 RHOBH reunion, with the argument culminating in Erika saying, “You think you’re a fawn amongst sharks. Teddi, raise up or get the f–k out. Come on girl.”

Andy Cohen Details “Weird” Interview With Britney Spears During Her Conservatorship

CelebrityGossipers — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 16:15:56 +0000

Andy Cohen is recalling a period of Britney Spears‘ life when she was overprotected.

The Watch What Happens Live host recently detailed an interview he held with the pop star during a release party for her 2016 album Glory, which happened before the news of Britney’s conservatorship became public. Now, looking back, Andy can recall a woman who was present for the interview and seemed to control what the “Toxic” singer said and did.

Andy’s friends even gave him a heads up about the situation. “They said, ‘There’s this woman who is at Britney’s side at all times,'” he remembered during his Sirius XM show Andy Cohen Live on Oct. 25, “‘and she basically tells her what to do and where to go and it’s really creepy.’ And I get there and this woman was there and it was like Britney was her captive.”

He continued, “Now, Britney mentions her by name in the book a lot and how much she hated her and I’m not going to mention her name ’cause I don’t want to get sued, but it was really creepy. Whispering in her ear before everything and we’re sitting up there on stage with me and Britney and will.i.am and she comes up says something in her ear and Britney’s like, ‘Mhm mhm.'”

The Bravo producer also described a moment backstage in which Britney’s team brought her a birthday cake, only for the Crossroads actress to say her birthday had been the previous month.

“And I’m like, ‘What are they doing?'” Andy noted. “You know? And it was clearly for the cameras and it was just all so weird.”

E! News has reached out to Britney’s rep for comment and has not heard back.

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Britney’s conservatorship—which was in place for 13 years until it was ended in November 2021 amid a legal battle and public outcry—is one of the many topics she details in her new memoir The Woman in Me. Others include the fraught end to her relationship with Justin Timberlake, her relationship with sister Jamie Lynn Spears and her infamous 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer.

For more information on the bombshells dropped within its pages, keep reading.

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First Kiss With Justin Timberlake

Britney Spears met Justin Timberlake when they were Mouseketeers on Disney Channel‘s The Mickey Mouse Club in the early 1990s along with Christina Aguilera and slightly older talents including Keri Russell, Ryan Gosling and Tony Lucca.

Though it would be some years before they dated, falling for each other when she went on tour with *NSYNC, Britney writes that she and Justin shared their first kiss while playing Truth or Dare during a cast sleepover with—insert irony here—a Janet Jackson song playing in the background.

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Britney Had an Abortion While Dating Justin Timberlake

Among the devastating low points Britney describes about dating Justin, she shares that she had a medical abortion because his position was that they were both too young to become parents. She underwent the process at home, she writes, recalling Justin lying on the bathroom floor with her and strumming his guitar during what she calls “one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life.”

She still isn’t sure if she made the right choice, adding, “If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father.”

E! News reached out to Justin’s rep and did not immediately hear back.

But as various Justin-centric anecdotes in Britney’s book made headlines ahead of its release, a source shared that the 42-year-old is working on new music, plus he and wife Jessica Biel are feeling great and keeping busy with sons Silas, 8, and Phineas, 2.

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Justin Dumped Her Over Text Message

According to Britney, Justin is in the club of celebrities who’ve ended relationships with the equivalent of a digital Post-It.

She was so “devastated,” she recalls, she “could barely speak for months.”

Britney went back home to Kentwood, La., to recover—and, post-breakup, she writes, Justin flew out there to personally deliver a letter he wrote and had framed that concluded, “I can’t breathe without you.”

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The Demoralizing Assumption That Britney Cheated on Justin

Recalling the insinuations in Justin’s “Cry Me a River” video that she had cheated on him, Britney writes of having to deal with the fallout, feeling “comatose in Louisiana” while her ex was “happily running around Hollywood.”

She points to her cringe-inducing November 2003 interview with Diane Sawyer, arranged by her father and manager, in which the journalist grilled her about the pain she supposedly caused Justin as her “breaking point.”

“I felt like I had been exploited,” she writes, “set up in front of the whole world.”

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The Extent of Britney’s Unfaithfulness

As was rumored years ago, Britney admits to making out with dancer-choreographer Wade Robson at a bar one night while she was dating Justin. But she attributes the gossip that Justin was cheating on her for pushing her into that mindset.

Otherwise, she writes, she was faithful to Justin.

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Adderall Was Britney’s “Drug of Choice”

Britney maintains that, during the days when it looked like she was partying hard with Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, et al., she didn’t have a drinking problem, but used the ADHD medication Adderall to get high and enjoy “a few hours of feeling less depressed.”

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Hooking Up With Colin Farrell

It wasn’t much of a secret 20 years ago that something was going on between Britney and Colin Farrell, and she describes their fling as a physically intense couple of weeks.

“Brawl is the only word for it—we were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like we were in a street fight,” Britney writes.

However, she admittedly wasn’t “over Justin” when she was Colin’s date to the Jan. 28, 2003, premiere of The Recruit, where the Irish actor told reporters they were “just mates” and not dating, but “she’s a sweet, sweet girl.”

Britney writes in The Woman in Me, “But for a brief moment in time, I did think there could be something there. The disappointments in my romantic life were just one part of how isolated I became. I felt so awkward all the time.”

E! News has reached out to Colin’s rep for comment but did not hear back.

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The Truth About Her Marriage to Pal Jason Alexander

Britney was bored and “just honestly very drunk,” she writes, when she and childhood friend Jason Alexander swapped vows in Las Vegas in January 2004. The union was annulled 55 hours later.

She marveled over her family’s reaction—”like I’d started World War III”—but it was “innocent fun” as far as she was concerned.

(Meanwhile, Jason was arrested and pleaded no contest to trespassing on Britney’s more consequential wedding day when she married Sam Asghari at home on June 9, 2022.)

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The Night Britney Shaved Her Head

The unforgettable night in February 2007 when Britney walked into a Los Angeles-area salon and buzzed all her hair off was a response to the constant objectification she’d been subjected to since coming of age in the spotlight. (She notes elsewhere in the book that she went on Prozac around the time Oops…I Did It Again was blowing up to deal with the heightened scrutiny.)

“I’d been looked up and down, had people telling me what they thought of my body, since I was a teenager,” she writes. “Shaving my head and acting out were my ways of pushing back.”

She was also “out of my mind with grief” while locked in a custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline over their sons, Sean and Jayden (who are now 18 and 17).

“Flailing those weeks without my children, I lost it, over and over again,” she recalls. “I didn’t even really know how to take care of myself.” She famously smacked a paparazzo’s car with an umbrella, her new haircut adding to the drama of it all, and remembers her thought process at the time growing increasingly childlike while she was still “in the throes of severe postpartum depression” and dealing with the end of her marriage.

Kevin was later granted sole physical custody of their kids on Oct. 1, 2007.

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Why Britney Didn’t Fight the Conservatorship Earlier

Britney was placed in a conservatorship on Feb. 1, 2008—initially after a series of emergencies, including the star being put on two 5150 holds in January 2008, but then it was extended indefinitely.

The “…Baby One More Time” singer recalls that she “begged the court to appoint literally anyone else” than her father, Jamie Spears, as her conservator. (Lawyer Andrew Wallet was co-conservator until March 2019.)

But she says she gave up the legal fight to free herself early on so she could be reunited with her kids as soon as possible.

“My freedom in exchange for naps with my children—it was a trade I was willing to make,” she writes. “There is nothing I love more—nothing more improtant to me on this earth—than my children. I’d lay down my life for them.”

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Britney the Person Withered While the Brand Continued to Bloom

Britney describes the alleged confines of the conservatorship as being too “sick to choose my own boyfriend and yet somehow healthy enough to appear on sitcoms and morning shows, and to perform for thousands of people in a different part of the world every week!”

Eventually, Britney writes, she “began to think that [dad Jamie] saw me as put on the earth for no other reason than to help their cash flow.”

She alleges she wasn’t even allowed to change her set list when she wanted to during her wildly successful Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood.

“My music was my life,” she writes, “and the conservatorship was deadly for that; it crushed my soul.”

Jamie, who took some time away from being co-conservator in 2019 while he dealt with health issues and then stepped down for good in September 2021, has stated multiple times in the past that he believed the decisions he was making were in Britney’s best interest.

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The Crush of the Conservatorship

From her portioned-out medication to the settings on her iPhone, Britney writes, “Everything was scrutinized and controlled. Everything.”

Including, she alleges, her weight. “If I thought getting criticized about my body in the press was bad, it hurt even more from my own father,” she writes. “He repeatedly told me I looked fat and that I was going to have to do something about it.”

While she was notably silent about the circumstances of her life during most of the 13 years she spent in the conservatorship, Britney alleges she did try to say something…once.

“I even mentioned the conservatorship on a talk show in 2016,” she writes, “but somehow that part of the interview didn’t make it to the air. Huh. How interesting.”

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Falling Out With Jamie Lynn Spears

During what Britney describes as her involuntary trip to rehab in early 2019—”My father said that if I didn’t go, then I’d have to go to court, and I’d be embarrassed,” she writes—she recalls being prescribed lithium and being kept there “against my will” for months.

“I couldn’t go outside,” she continues. “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.”

From the facility, Britney texted Jamie Lynn Spears, pleading for help, she writes. Her little sister’s response, per the book, was, “Stop fighting it. There’s nothing you can do about it, so stop fighting it.”

Britney felt betrayed, writing, “I didn’t understand how Jamie Lynn and our father had developed such a good relationship. She knew I was reaching out to her for help…I felt like she should have taken my side.”

In early 2022 the siblings publicly sparred over Jamie Lynn’s memoir, Things I Should Have Said.

Jamie Lynn “rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous,” Britney reiterates in her book. But, she concludes, she loves her sis, adding, “I’m working to feel more compassion than anger toward her and toward everyone who I feel has wronged me. It’s not that easy.”

E! News has reached out to Jamie Lynn for comment. She said on E!’s Daily Pop in 2022 that she and Britney “go back and forth, but at the end of the day, the love and support will always be there.”

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Her Introduction to #FreeBritney

Britney notes that it was during her 2019 rehab stay that she first saw YouTube clips, courtesy of a nurse at the facility, alerting her to the existence of the unofficial but vigilant #FreeBritney movement.

As the years went by and the public discussion around whether she still should be in a conservatorship intensified, Britney kept up with the news.

“Seeing the documentaries about me was rough,” she writes. “I understand that everyone’s heart was in the right place, but I was hurt that some old friends spoke to filmmakers without consulting me first.” She adds, “There was so much guessing about what I must have thought or felt.”

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Where Britney Was When Her Conservatorship Was Terminated

When Jamie was removed as co-conservator in September 2021, “I felt relief sweep over me,” Britney recalls. “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 was at a resort in Tahiti on Nov. 12, 2021, when her lawyer called to tell her a judge had terminated the conservatorship entirely.

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Those Naked Instagram Posts

Britney relishes being free to post whatever she wants on social media now, including the occasional strategically censored nude selfie.

“I know that a lot of people don’t understand why I love taking pictures of myself naked or in new dresses,” she explains. “But I think if they’d been photographed by other people thousands of times, prodded and posed for other people’s approval, they’d understand that I get a lot of joy from posing the way I feel sexy and taking my own picture, doing whatever I want with it.”

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What Freedom Means

Britney writes that she has suffered “physical and emotional damage” from being in the conservatorship, and still gets migraines.

“I don’t think my family understands the real damage that they did,” she writes.

But she doesn’t take freedom for granted, whether that means “taking a break from Instagram without people calling 911” or “being able to make mistakes, and learning from them.”

It means “I don’t have to perform for anyone—onstage or offstage,” she writes. “Freedom means that I get to be as beautifully imperfect as everyone else. And freedom means the ability, and the right, to search for joy, in my own way, on my own terms.”