Britney Spears has claimed that her estranged father, Jamie Spears, forced her to check into rehab during her “Piece of Me” Las Vegas residency in 2014.
Writing in her tell-all memoir “The Woman In Me,” released Tuesday, the “Toxic” hitmaker recalled her stint performing in Sin City, which took place during her 13-year conservatorship helmed by Jamie.
Britney detailed how her then-boyfriend Charlie Ebersol introduced her to energy-boosting supplements which she could take without having to ask for her father’s approval.
“Charlie worked out every day, taking pre-workout supplements and a whole bunch of vitamins. He shared his nutrition research with me and started giving me energy supplements,” the mom of two writes.
“My father didn’t like that. He knew what I ate; he even knew when I would go to the bathroom. So when I started taking energy supplements, he saw that I had more energy onstage and that I was in better shape than I had been.”
Insisting the products were a “good thing” for her overall health at the time, Britney said her dad, who oversaw her medical health as her conservator, disagreed.
She claimed that Jamie “started to think that [she] had a problem with those energy supplements, even though they were over-the-counter, not prescription.”
“So he told me I had to get off them, and he sent me to rehab,” the “Gimme More” hitmaker claimed.
After he allegedly forced her to check into the rehab facility, Britney soon found herself surrounded by “a lot” of “serious” drug addicts.
“I was scared to be there by myself,” she noted, saying that her dad was “horrible” for “throwing [her] away” in a “place with crack and heroin addicts.”
“When I got out, I started doing shows again in Vegas like nothing had happened,” she explained. “Part of that was because my father told me I had to get back out there, and part of it was because I was still so nice, so eager to please, so desperate to do the right thing and be a good girl.”
Britney’s dazzling residency, which ran from 2013 until 2017, featured a brief hiatus from Nov. 9 to Dec. 26, 2014.
The singer was officially freed from her conservatorship on November 12, 2021.
“If you stood up for me when I couldn’t stand up for myself, from the bottom of my heart, thank you,” she writes in her memoir.
The Post has reached out to Jamie’s lawyer for comment.
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