Britney Spears calls sister Jamie Lynn a 'total bitch' in new memoir

Now that Britney Spears is finally telling her story in The Woman In Me, she's not pulling any punches — especially in regards to her family who mistreated her for 13 years under a conservatorship.

In her new tell-all memoir, Spears details how her relationship with younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears soured beginning from a young age. While spending time with her family after her breakup with Justin Timberlake, Britney was shocked to see how Jamie Lynn acted. "My little sister — well, when I tell you she was a total bitch, I'm not exaggerating," Britney writes. "It was clear that girl ruled the roost. Meanwhile, it was like I was a ghost child. I can remember walking into the room and feeling like no one even saw me. Jamie Lynn only saw the TV."

Image Group LA/Disney Channel via Getty Images Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears in 2017

The pop icon couldn't believe the way Jamie Lynn would talk to their mother either, writing, "I'd listen to her spew these hateful words, and I'd turn to my mother and say, 'Are you going to let this little witch talk to you like that?'" Britney also remembers her sister being ungrateful after she bought the family "a house for Jamie Lynn to grow up in."

"She was not exactly grateful for it," Britney recalls. "She'd later say, 'Why'd she get us a house?' — like it was some sort of imposition."

As Jamie Lynn grew into a teenager, Britney felt she became more even more ungrateful. She writes how Jamie Lynn once told her she never stayed in the condo Britney had bought for the family to use in Florida... only for Britney to later find out that Jamie Lynn and her two daughters would go there every weekend with their mother Lynn Spears — and never invited nor thanked Britney.

However, Britney states that she still attempted to be a good older sister to Jamie Lynn. When Britney was pregnant, she became "protective" over her younger sister, despite admitting to being "so mean" and not wanting "to be around almost anyone at all." Recalling a now-infamous incident on the set of her sister's show Zoey 101, she thought she was coming to Jamie Lynn's defense against a costar who was spreading malicious rumors about her, only to find out much later that Jamie Lynn lied about the entire situation.

"After she complained to me about a costar of hers on her TV show, I showed up on the set to have words with the actress," Britney writes, referring to Alexa Nikolas who played Nicole. "What I must have looked like, hugely pregnant, yelling at a teenage (and, I would later learn, innocent) girl, 'Are you spreading rumors about my sister?'" Britney previously publicly apologized to Nikolas and does so again in the book, and Nikolas has accepted both apologies on social media.

Years later, when Britney's father used the conservatorship to lock her up against her will in a rehab facility for months, she reveals she reached out to her sister for help. "I also texted my sister when I was in that place and asked her to get me out," Britney writes. "'Stop fighting it,' she texted back. 'There's nothing you can do about it, so stop fighting it.' Along with the rest of them, she kept acting like I was a threat in some way. This will sound crazy, but I'll say it again because it's the truth: I thought they were going to try to kill me."

Britney still struggles to understand how Jamie Lynn developed such a close relationship with their father while knowing how he was using the conservatorship to control her. "I felt like she should have taken my side," Britney says. It got worse when Britney began actively fighting back against the abusive conservatorship she was trapped in, as Jamie Lynn decided to publish her own memoir, Things I Should Have Said, instead of helping her.

"As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, she was writing a book capitalizing on it," Britney writes. "She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous. I was really let down. Shouldn't sisters be able to confess their fear or vulnerability to each other without that later being used as evidence of instability?"

Britney goes on to say that despite their complicated history, she still wishes "the absolute best" for Jamie Lynn and her family. "She's been through a lot, including teen pregnancy, divorce, and her daughter's near-fatal accident," Britney says. "She's spoken about the pain of growing up in my shadow. I'm working to feel more compassion than anger toward her and toward everyone who I feel has wronged me. It's not easy."

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