Britney Spears Says She's 'Lucky to Even Be Alive' After Family Mistreatment

Britney Spears says she's "incredibly lucky to even be alive" after being mistreated by her family.

The pop legend called out her family in a social media post this week.

“As people, all we really want is to feel connected to each other and never feel alone … for those of you in your family that have said to help you is to isolate you and make you feel unbelievably left out … they were wrong,” she wrote  a photo of a child holding a parent’s hand. “We can forgive as people but u don’t ever forget. Yearning and longing for contact is always crucial !!!”

Britney continued, “I’m incredibly lucky to even be alive with how my family treated me once in my life and now I’m scared of them.”

She added, “It’s weird how God works in mysterious ways. My friends, what do you think he is saying today ??? Because to be totally honest with you, no matter what he says, they will never take responsibility for what they did.”

 

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Britney has regularly discussed her family on social media recently.

In December, she shared an image of a Christmas tree alongside a sarcastic message: “Merry late Christmas to my beautiful family who have never disrespected me, harmed me, ever done anything completely unacceptable or caused unbelievable trauma, the kind you can’t fix.”

Britney's Instagram account was temporarily deactivated in November, following a series of responses to her ex-husband Kevin Federline‘s recent memoir, You Thought You Knew.

Federline's memoir held nothing back in recounting the former couple's turbulent relationship, which ended in divorce in 2007.

Britney released her own memoir, The Woman in Me, in 2024, in which she said her controversial conservatorship, which ended in 2021, turned her into "a sort of child-robot."

“I had been so infantilised that I was losing pieces of what made me feel like myself," she added of the conservatorship.