Jamie Lynn Spears Claims She Threatened Her Parents With Emancipation

In an appearance on podcast Call Her Daddy, Jamie Lynn - who became a mother at 17 - also claimed Britney didn't find out about her pregnancy until it appeared in a magazine.

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by Bonnie McLaren |
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Jamie Lynn Spears has released her memoir, Things I Should Have Said, today. Over the past few weeks, Jamie Lynn has been promoting the book - which has caused the rift between the sisters to widen, as in interviews Jamie Lynn made bombshell claims about her sister, claiming in the book that Britney's behaviour was 'erratic', 'paranoid' and 'spiralling'.

One of the biggest revelations Jamie Lynn makes in the book is claiming that Britney locked her in a room with a knife when Jamie Lynn was 12 - something Britney strongly denies. Responding on Twitter, in a screenshot of the Notes app, Britney wrote: 'Please, please stop with these crazy lies for the Hollywood books. Only a scum person would make up such things.'

Today, Jamie Lynn also appeared on Alex Cooper's podcast, Call Her Daddy, to speak about elements of the book. (The second part of the interview is released tomorrow.) In the first instalment, Jamie Lynn - who became a mother at 17 - claimed that Britney (following the singer's public breakdown in 2007) didn't find out about her pregnancy until it was announced in OK magazine. Jamie Lynn said: 'Home felt like a prison without a smartphone or connection to the outside world... My team believed everyone outside of the inner circle was a potential threat. They went so far as hiding my pregnancy from my sister, claiming, "It's too risky to tell Britney about the baby" ... I needed her more than ever and she wasn't able [to] help me in my most vulnerable time.'

Jamie Lynn also discussed how she threatened her parents with emancipation following her pregnancy, as she felt she was 'locked away like a princess', and they wouldn't let her move in her with her boyfriend at the time. 'My family denied my attempts to be independent and left me with no other choice than to threaten to file for emancipation with the courts,' she wrote.

Britney was finally freed from her 14-year conservatorship in November. Earlier in the year, Britney testified against the arrangement - speaking at Los Angeles Superior Court, she claimed the conservatorship was 'abusive', also saying 'I want to sue my family'.

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Writing in the book, Jamie Lynn defended herself, saying she had 'protected' her sister until they fell out in 2020 - and said Britney's testimony started 'an onslaught of hate' against her family. Jamie Lynn wrote: 'At no point did my sister lift the veil on what or who is truly responsible for her challenges. By excluding this, she allowed an onslaught of hate that put me and my family at risk. Her references to me left me reeling. I have only ever had her back.... I continued to protect her until just recently, when she decided I didn’t need protecting and threw me to the proverbial media wolves.'

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