Uncle of Britney Spears says ‘home life’ doomed her
Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Hot Momma
In an exclusive interview with the The Sun Newspaper (likely for a nice fee), William Spears, Britney Spears’ uncle blames the singer’s father Jamie for her many troubles, because he was “drunk all the time”. William Spears, Jamie’s 49-year-old brother claims Britney spent her childhood witnessing her family’s drunken antics, and insists their boozy lifestyle is responsible for Britney’s own reported struggles.
“I’m not just a family friend or someone who claims to know them. I was there every day, working with them. I have seen all the terrible things happen.”
Her parents Jamie and Lynne divorced in 2002 but Britney was exposed to their hell-raising rows when she was growing up.
William - known as Willie explains: “A few times, Britney called saying, ‘They are fighting again, please come and get me’. It was rough and the sad thing is it became normal.
Willie also believes his mother’s suicide has plagued Britney’s life. Her grandmother Emma Jean Spears shot herself in the chest after losing her three-day-old son to cot death in 1966, aged just 31. Britney shares the same middle name as her tragic grandmother and the meltdown after losing full-time custody of her kids has got the family concerned she will meet the same fate.
He says Brit, 26, started drinking when she was a 13-year-old Mickey Mouse Club presenter and dabbled with drugs from the age of 14. Willie says that after her turbulent early years, she went “buck-wild” on turning 18, snorting cocaine on her birthday, adding: “She has tried just about everything - cocaine, crystal meth, ecstasy.”
“Just about everyone in the Spears family is a drunk and Britney’s dad Jamie was one of the worst. “He would drink from daylight to night. Britney saw him drunk all the time… “Britney grew up thinking it was alright to drink and that you can live with a drinking problem.”
Jamie Spears checked into rehab in 2004 to kick his alcohol and painkillers addiction, while 26-year-old Britney had a brief stint at a drug rehabilitation facility in Antigua in February 2007.
William Spears, who lives in a camper van in the star’s native Louisiana, himself has led a troubled life. He is dubbed “Road Kill Willie” after cooking and eating animals that had been hit by cars when he was living rough. He is also a recovering addict and claims he has been sober for over four years. He has since been diagnosed with lung cancer.
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