The first chapter of Britney Spears’s new memoir, “The Woman in Me,” includes the story of her paternal grandmother, Emma Jean Spears, called Jean; everybody says Britney Spears looks like her, but that’s not the only thing they have in common.
“Tragedy runs in my family,” the passage about Jean Spears begins.
“Jean wasn’t the only wife June sent to the mental hospital in Mandeville,” Britney Spears writes.
“He sent his second wife there, too.”That’s the environment that her father, Jamie Spears, was raised in, Britney Spears writes.
By now, most people have heard about her conservatorship (the subject of a Times documentary, “Framing Britney Spears”), which started in 2008, after her father petitioned for control over his daughter’s life and finances, citing concerns about her mental health.
Persons:
Britney Spears’s, Emma Jean Spears, Jean, Britney Spears, that’s, Jean Spears, June Spears, “ Jean wasn’t, “, ”, Jamie Spears, Justin Timberlake
Organizations:
Louisiana Hospital
Locations:
Mandeville