Jamie Lynn Spears‘s new e-book continues to trigger controversy.
The youthful sister of Britney Spears, who rode her sibling’s mega-fame to early success on Zoey 101 and now seems on Sweet Magnolias, has her renamed memoir, Things I Should Have Said, popping out Jan. 18. With Britney’s controversial conservatorship case casting a adverse shadow on the Spears household, one charity is refusing a donation Jamie Lynn, 30, supplied from proceeds of her e-book gross sales.
This Is My Brave, a nonprofit which helps inform the tales of people living with psychological sickness, shared on Instagram that they’d be “declining the donation.”
“We heard you,” the assertion learn. “We’re taking action. We are deeply sorry to anyone we offended.”
This assertion adopted Jamie Lynn’s announcement on Oct. 11 that she accomplished writing the memoir. She wrote on Instagram that it gave her “closure on this ’30 year long’ chapter of my life, and hopefully helps anyone else out there who forgot their worth, lost their voice, or is trying to break an unhealthy cycle in their life.” She stated, “a portion of my book proceeds will be going to @thisismybrave, because I know how scary it can be to share personal struggles, especially if you don’t feel you have the support or a safe space to do so.”
This apparently irked Britney’s military of followers — the unstoppable crew fueling the #FreeBritney motion — because the singing famous person has been sharing her psychological well being struggles underneath the stringent conservatorship during the last 13 years. The charity’s social media pages have been stuffed with messages, together with, “Y’all should really rethink this JLS collab” and “You’re going to take money from a woman who helped keep her own sister a slave?” Many different feedback simply shared these highly effective two phrases which have modified the course of Britney’s conservatorship: “Free Britney.”
A Jamie Lynn supply instructed Entertainment Tonight the charity was receiving “violent threats.” However, Yahoo Entertainment has tried to verify that with the charity and has not but obtained a response.
We do know that there was backlash over the e-book for a while now, together with some from Britney herself.
After Jamie Lynn revealed the e-book cowl — and proposed charitable donation — Britney, 39, mocked her sister’s venture. She wrote on Instagram that she’s contemplating releasing a e-book subsequent 12 months, “But I’m having issues coming up with a title so maybe my fans could help!!!! Option #1 … ‘S—t, I really don’t know’ Option #2 … ‘I really care what people think.’”
Days later, a Britney supply instructed E! News that the shade was actual. “Britney is very, very angry and hurt” and “feels like Jamie Lynn totally abandoned her and let her down in the fight of her life. They were best friends and everything to each other for so long.”
And that wasn’t the primary time. In July, it was introduced Jamie Lynn’s e-book was forthcoming — and it might be referred to as I Must Confess. The title was a lyric from Britney’s hit “…Baby One More Time” and shortly after Britney wrote on Instagram about beforehand being sad when her sister capitalized on her success.
That led to Worthy Publishing issuing an announcement saying it “erroneously released” information about the book that was “incorrect and incomplete.” The book title was then changed.
Despite their age gap, Britney and Jamie Lynn were tight pre-conservatorship and often times during. That seemed to change as Britney amped up efforts to be freed from her conservatorship. For the last year, Britney has been oust her dad Jamie, whom she’s long been estranged from, as conservator, and was finally successful in September. Her new attorney, the first one she’s been able to hire herself, announced plans to terminate the conservatorship completely by the end of the fall.
Things only really changed in late June when Britney broke her silence, alleging conservatorship abuse. In that impassioned statement, she said, “I might actually wish to sue my household, to be completely sincere with you. I additionally would love to have the ability to share my story with the world, and what they did to me, as an alternative of it being a hush-hush secret to profit all of them.”
Soon after, Jamie Lynn publicly denied that Britney’s money was used to buy herself a $1 million beachfront condo.
Now four months after that Britney broke her silence, she’s still thinking about a reckoning for her family. Over the weekend, she wrote on social media: “Lord have mercy on my household’s souls if I ever do an interview!!”
According to Entertainment Tonight, Jamie Lynn could be very upset about This Is My Brave declining her donation amid the conservatorship chaos.
“Jamie Lynn has been pressured to remain silent for years and now she’s being attacked for lastly talking her fact,” an insider told the outlet. “People fail to appreciate that Jamie Lynn has suffered among the identical trauma that Britney has. This is not Britney OR Jamie Lynn. This is a couple of household trauma and the way it impacts every individual otherwise. There is a much bigger dialog available about supporting each voice.”
The person added: “The most upsetting half to her is to see a company take such a fast and public stand towards Jamie Lynn as a result of it solely furthers the adverse and hurtful narrative towards her. She was so excited to assist them and their mission and was shocked to see them publicly decline her assist after accepting it.”
As the conservatorship has played out in recent months, and the family is under scrutiny, Jamie Lynn has limited who is allowed to comment on her social media posts, and she’s been more selective of what she shares about her own family. She only posts images of her two kids with their faces blurred.
On Monday night, amid the drama with the charity, Jamie Lynn posted a biblical passage as her apparent statement on the situation.