Sunday 7 December 2008

'The day I saw Britney Spears’ father pull a knife'

I thought this Daily Mail article was worth posting, about Britney's dad who now has total control over her (indefinitely); standard abusive alcoholic (obviously it is much worse than anything we'll hear about though). Previous Britney posts; + main two (part 3 I'll start at some point) here and here.

He was the domineering man who subjected this writer to a hostile drunken monologue... now a court has given him stifling control of his daughter's life - and it's driving her crazy



Britney Spears celebrates her 27th birthday party last week in New York [black/white striped stilts (she could topple/break down at any moment)]

Britney Spears appears to have undergone a remarkable transformation. Less than a year ago, her reign as America’s favourite pop princess had descended into ghoulish soap opera.

Her bizarre drink and drug-fuelled behaviour had led to doubts about her sanity, she had lost custody of her two young sons to former husband Kevin Federline, and she had been forcibly taken to a psychiatric ward in Los Angeles after a stand-off with police.

Last week, however, she celebrated her 27th birthday with a smile on her face and a hit single, Womanizer, near the top of the charts.

Once shaven-headed and bloated from a diet of junk food and alcohol, Britney again looks toned and fit. Her recent appearance on X Factor during a whirlwind trip to London drew a record audience for the show.

The man credited as the architect of one of pop music’s most extraordinary comebacks is none other than Britney’s father, Jamie.

The 56-year-old former builder, who is divorced from Britney’s mother Lynne, was granted control over the star’s business affairs and appointed her ‘conservator’ – the equivalent of a child’s guardian for an adult – at a court hearing last February, shortly after her discharge from hospital.

This effectively handed Spears control over his daughter’s life and there is no doubt he takes the role seriously. His first act was to cut her off from an aide who was allegedly plying his daughter with pills. He ordered a halt to the spending sprees that were draining Britney’s fortune and made sure she kept away from the sleazy clubs and hangers-on who could drag her back to her old self-destructive habits.

He also masterminded her extraordinary return to the recording studio and stage. Britney has just released her sixth album, Circus, and will embark on a world tour in the New Year that is expected to earn in excess of £150million.

Yet something about her performance on X Factor – she lip-synched badly, danced unconvincingly and appeared stunned when asked about the relative merits of the contestants – suggests that all is not quite as it seems.

Insiders on her mini-tour of Germany, France and Britain revealed that the star lives in a bubble designed to maximise her potential as a money-making machine as well as physically separate her from all temptation – whether that be drugs, alcohol, junk food or men.


Failed marriage: Britney's parents Lynne and Jamie pictured in 2001. They divorced the following year after 20 years together

But Britney’s friends are worried that the regime imposed by her father does little for her fragile state of mind. They say that in private she confesses to feeling pressurised to perform, frequently dissolves in tears and has a volatile love-hate relationship with her father.

They also question whether Jamie Spears, a former bankrupt and recovering alcoholic whose only business experience is a failed building company is a suitable person to exercise such iron control over a very vulnerable young woman.

Certainly the Spears I met seven years ago at his isolated bungalow on a dirt road in rural Kentwood, Louisiana, didn’t seem the most sensitive of souls. In a terrifying encounter that lasted four hours, Britney’s father subjected me to a hostile drunken monologue while refusing to let me leave.

Every time I got up to go, he picked up a large carving knife and theatrically stabbed it into the wooden table at which we were sitting.


Tough love: Britney's father Jamie in their home town of Kentwood and, left, the star performing on X Factor

‘You can sleep here,’ he said. ‘You said you wanted to know what it was like being Britney.’

Two growling alsatians, a rottweiler and a man Spears claimed was a ‘bodyguard’ [probably programmer/handler] prowled the creaky back porch, which had been converted into a makeshift redneck bar complete with illuminated Budweiser sign, beer and whisky. An airgun lay in front of Spears.

He had been drinking heavily and was chewing Kodiak tobacco and showed me round the little house where Britney grew up while his ‘bodyguard’ cooked a huge iron pan of crayfish outside on a camping stove.

Surprisingly, the inside of the house was immaculate, almost as though no one lived there. It was also a rather spooky shrine to his famous daughter, with framed pictures, magazine covers, platinum records, concert posters and even used ticket stubs covering almost every available inch of space.


A kitsch sign outside Britney's father's house [Looks sort of like a Gingerbread House (children are eaten in it; Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm)]

Spears told me: ‘There’s not a man on earth could be happier than me. I have got the most famous daughter in the world.’ But he admitted: ‘I squandered my money on wild women and beer.

‘Britney is focused. She’s been a star since birth. I still build but I do it when I feel like it.’

Spears then attempted to give me a drunken hug. He confided that he was all but broke, but added that Britney had bought him the smart white pick-up truck parked outside and had bought his wife Lynne, from whom he was then estranged, a Mercedes.

My bizarre encounter with the man who controls a pop empire took place in March 2002. Britney was still a fresh-faced 20-year-old but already a pop phenomenon.

I finally managed to escape after Jamie and his ‘bodyguard’ escorted me to a local bar, where he said they needed to buy more beer.

It was a lifestyle from which young Britney had also tried to escape. When her breakthrough hit Baby One More Time came out in 1998, her parents had only a few months previously declared themselves bankrupt with debts of £100,000.

Their phone was cut off because of unpaid bills and their old Ford pick-up was seized and auctioned on the steps of the local courthouse. Its windscreen was cracked and there were 71,770 miles on the clock. The vehicle fetched £1,000.

Though many local people blamed Jamie Spears’s drinking for the failure of his business, Britney castigated herself. [all on her]


Britney performed on America's The Today Show to mark her birthday [dissociatively large cake]

She believed her parents’ financial collapse and their subsequent divorce happened because she and her mother spent so long away from home – Britney starred in the long-running American TV show The Mickey Mouse Club.

As is often the case, however, her complicated relationship with her hard-drinking father was to cast a long shadow over her adult life. Britney’s romance with the clean-cut Justin Timberlake broke up after allegations that she was unfaithful.

She embarked on a string of tempestuous relationships soon afterwards that mirrored her father’s disastrous marriage. [victims often do this; find men that mirror their early abuser]

Her first husband, Jason Alexander, was a swaggering heavy drinker who could have been a younger Jamie Spears. The second – Federline, a little-known dancer – already had one child and a girlfriend who was eight months pregnant when his relationship with Britney began.

The most disturbing part of the new arrangement between father and daughter is that Britney’s show-business career is her father’s only passport out of poverty – a poverty that his alcoholism helped create.

With Britney’s apparent recovery, I spoke again to the Spears family’s friends in the faded town of Kentwood, population 2,174.


Star potential: Britney as a child with her parents and brother Bryan

They told me that Jamie had been sober for five years after treatment at a rehabilitation clinic and hoped his own battle with alcohol would be an inspiration to his daughter.

One friend said: ‘He genuinely believes he can be an anchor in her life.

‘He’s very honest about his faults and he tells her, “Don’t do as I do, do as I say you’re to do.” She says she has forgiven him for her childhood. But I know she finds it hard. There’s a sadness in her eyes.’

When a court in Los Angeles appointed Spears his daughter’s conservator, he reportedly persuaded her to support his application by saying it would help her to win back custody of her children from Federline. But this is a development that conspicuously appears no nearer today than it did a year ago [MK victims' children are always used as pawns].

Her father’s supporters insist that his behaviour is the only type of ‘tough love’ that will prevent his daughter’s relapse into drink and drug addiction.

They point to her evident healthy glow and the rebirth of her show-business career as proof that he has her best interests at heart.

But friends of Britney say she is becoming increasingly anxious about the power her father has over her life.


Britney and her mother Lynne were pictured shopping together this week

Tensions have been raised to an all-time high following the announcement that she will embark on a worldwide tour – a massive undertaking for any young star, let alone one who until so recently was on the edge of a total breakdown.

A tearful Britney is said to have threatened to cancel some engagements, complaining that she is not yet strong enough to cope. ‘She blames her father for everything,’ [rightly so] one acquaintance said. ‘He and Brit hardly spoke for years and now all of a sudden he is the king.

She has an overwhelming love-hate relationship with her dad, and now Jamie has alienated his daughter by treating her like an infant. She is given to crying fits and says her father has pushed her into performing before she is ready.

Her friends acknowledge that her father has kept his promise to keep her away from the party, drink and drugs lifestyle [that is not the case] that prompted her downward spiral to a psychiatric clinic. But they say his controlling nature comes at a terrible price.


Britney at the MTV Video Music Awards in September

She is not allowed to drive her car or choose her own meals. She cannot leave her father’s side without permission – and then only with chaperones. All her phone calls are monitored and she is watched over day and night by guards.

On her recent mini-tour of Europe, she was surrounded by an entourage of 40 people and left the safety of her hotel room only to go out to ‘appearances’. She was not allowed to rehearse with the dancers on her shows.

Producers and studio technicians were refused any contact with her and all alcoholic drinks were banned – hotel minibars were emptied.

She lives in a strange netherworld of hotel rooms, rehearsal rooms, television studios, limousines and aeroplanes. Even Rolling Stone, America’s respected music magazine, was prompted to comment that because of the terms of the court order granting her father power of attorney over her life, ‘she has about as many legal rights as when she was a little girl’.

And in one rare moment of sad reflection, Britney herself said: ‘Even when you go to jail, you know there’s the time when you’re gonna get out. If I wasn’t under the restraints I am under, I would feel so liberated.

The question now is: how long will Britney accept her father’s diktat? Already there are signs of rebellion. Shortly after her X Factor appearance, thousands of fans crammed into London’s Astoria club to see her, only to be informed she was ‘too shy’ to go on stage.

No matter how genuinely Jamie Spears wants to help his daughter, the fear is that this unsophisticated former alcoholic could be simply unable to help her escape the past.

[Obviously it's completely off the mark; all of it is about keeping her under control, nothing to do with 'helping' his daughter, the corporate controlled cash cow.] Edit: I was not aware that, like Miley (at just age 15, by Annie Leibovitz [the 'illuminists' main photogropher or something it seems, particularly Disney; might put a post together, these will feature in the post but in the mean time check out her 2003 Vogue Alice in Wonderland shoot (HQ images, I picked out two here and here) showing where 'Annie' is really coming from]) Britney was also photographed in pretty much the same pose (not by Leibovitz should say) in 1998 at age 16... coincidence? [Both Disney programmed slaves/future blood sacrifices; Russian Rapunzel ritual sacrifice also in this pose (even more similar to Miley's), ritual continued/repeated in CSI] Info from Backseat Cuddler (replaced image).

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

or keeping her under control because he is aware of the tradgedy that mysteriously befalls some of these MK celebrities and trying his (now sober) mortal best to avoid something like that befalling his daughter.

Unfortunately, it seems that when you dance with the devil you must pay your dues.

Time will certainly reveal more of his intent.

Anonymous said...

My heart breaks for her.

Anonymous said...

Regarding Britney, I remember, a few years ago, when I saw an official (of course) documentary about her, that - at least a 9 yo, while she was singing - her voice was unusually mature for that age. How it happened that her voice lost its intensity in the teenage years and after? Mabe she was indeed talented, but smb else deciding for her, "modelled" her voice and the result was her nowadays annoying one...

Chris

Anonymous said...

Look at her eyes:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1092765/I-naked-right-role-says-18-year-old-Harry-Potter-star-Emma-Watson.html

Nicole's rite hand and Katy getting out of the banana,phallic symbol/moon goddess:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1092785/Katy-Perry-Pussycat-Nicole-spice-Christmas-show.html


Everybody knows hes gay:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1092671/Im-enigma-I-love--Cliff-Richard-admits-likes-people-guessing-sexuality.html

Chris

Anonymous said...

A SHERILYN FENN lookin MARYLINISH was in TWO MOON JUNCTION movie (with another MK'ed MILLA JOVOVICH) and in more realistic RUBY. Revelatory name of her character: SHIRLEY ANN DUJEAN/CANDY CANE (reminding me of THE PROGRAMMING OF CANDY JONES)

Chris

Anonymous said...

Look at the lyrics to Britney's song "Mannequin." Interesting to ponder who its about. Is it from the point of view of her programmer dad?

Anonymous said...

Was I the only one disturbed at how much they pushed/promoted Equis for Daniel Radcliff...?

Because its totally ok that a worldwide recognizable CHILD star would have his next role as a sexual deviant who gets nude on stage.

Yeah... that makes total sense from a career progression standpoint and is completely fine for all of his fans who grew up with him and identified with him, so it doesn't surprise me Emma's doing it too.

Anonymous said...

Her father was a builder??

Isn't that another word for mason?

Anonymous said...

Just browsed and found another MK'ed singer, born also on 2.12, like Brit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roc-A-Fella_Presents:_Teairra_Mari

Anonymous said...

ALANIS&her tiger:
http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/what-were-they-thinking/2501#id=4

Is this a phallic dress, lol?
http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/what-were-they-thinking/2501#id=9

Chris

Anonymous said...

Note that in both pictures of britney as a child she's holding her arms out to the side in a stiff, posed manner?

This is the marionette programming Jon Benet Ramsey was also encouraged to display

Anonymous said...

FROM 8 MILE TO THE GRAVE. DAMM 8 SYMBOLISM...
(imdb.com)
8 Mile Actor Found Hanged

8 December 2008 8:06 AM, PST

An up-and-coming actor who starred in Eminem's movie 8 Mile has been found dead in an apparent suicide.

De'Angelo Wilson's body was discovered in a room at a commercial premises in Los Angeles. It is believed he had hanged himself.

Wilson, who played DJ Iz in the 2002 movie and also starred in an episode of TV crime drama CSI: NY, is thought to have died on 26 November.

According to AllHipHop.com, Wilson.s mother did not have enough money to transport his body to the family's home in Dayton, Ohio - so friends stepped in to help out.

Wilson had also appeared in several other movies including Antwone Fisher, The Salon, and Mercy Street.

Chris

Anonymous said...

First of all, I feel horrible coz of Matthew Delooze's announcement...

Baphomet's head on Jenny:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1093051/Red-alert-Gemma-Atkinson-Jenny-McCarthy-head-head-video-game-battle-babes.html

Back to TWIN PEAKS. Remember the character NADINE HURLEY, the one eyed redhead who, due to a "shock" has become - mentally, emotionally and partly physically - a teeanager?
Well, the actress - WENDY ROBIE - had her 1st child at 13-14 yo and imdb specifies she is "known for playing mentally or emotionally disturbed women"...

Another REHAB-ed MK singer, RIHANNA (feat. TIMBERLAKE):

REHAB lyrics:
Baby Baby
When we first met, I never felt something so strong
You were like my lover and my best friend
All wrapped into one with a ribbon on it
And all of a sudden you went and left
I didn't know how to follow
It's like a shock that spun me around
And now my heart's dead
I feel so empty and hollow

And I'll never give myself to another the way I gave it to ya (to ya)
Don't even recognize the ways you hurt me, do ya (do ya)?
It's gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you are the one to blame
And now I feel like - ooh!

You're the reason why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more
I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
Should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

Damn, ain't it crazy when you're loveswept
You'd do anything for the one you love
Cause anytime that you needed me, I'd be there
Its like you were my favorite drug
The only problem was that you was using me
In a different way that I was using you
But now that I know that it's not meant to be
You gotta go, I gotta wean myself off of you

And I'll never give myself to another the way I gave it to ya (to ya)
Don't even recognize the ways you hurt me, do ya?
It's gonna take a miracle to bring me back
And you are the one to blame
Cause now I feel like - ooh!

You're the reason why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more
I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
Should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

Oh - Oh
Now ladies gimme that..
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh-Oh
Oh Oh Ouh Oh
Now gimme that
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh-Oh
Oh Oh Ouh Oh
Now ladies gimme that..
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh-Oh
Oh Oh Ouh Oh
Now gimme that
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh-Oh
Oh Oh Ouh Oh

Oh

You're the reason why I'm thinking
I don't wanna smoke on these cigarettes no more
I guess that's what i get for wishful thinking
Should've never let you enter my door
Next time you wanna go on and leave
I should just let you go on and do it
'Cause now I'm using like I bleed

It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
It's like I checked in to rehab
And baby, you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease
I've gotta check in to rehab
'Cause baby you're my disease

Chris

Anonymous said...

It's common knowledge Britney was an amazing singer when she was younger. Perhaps the constant distortion of her voice is to further take away her from identity. Or something.

PS: Why always the daily mail???!!!

Anonymous said...

http://alicewonderland2.blogspot.com/2008/05/shirley-temple.html

Anonymous said...

Why always the Daily Mail? Well, not really always, rather everytime smth interesting shows up...


IF her dads a handler, then her mom is the enabler:
http://omg.yahoo.com/news/lynne-spears-blames-self-for-britneys-meltdown/16292

Chris

Anonymous said...

Isnt it strange what JESSICA BIEL says?

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/jessica-biel-justin-timberlake-is-the-one-part-of-my-life-that-i-own/16348;_ylt=AspZ4_iQIp.0m9gGseYTiSkPpxx.;_ylv=3

Chris

Anonymous said...

Biel=Beale=Baal=Belial like Beale street in Memphis :)

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