Britney Spears: Dad Forced Her Into Rehab ‘Hell’ For Using OTC Supplements

Britney Spears recently penned a tell-all book, The Woman In Me. And in it, the singer describes how her father Jamie Spears forced her to go to rehab.

But Britney claims that Jamie sent her there only for the use of over-the-counter (OTC) supplements. Keep reading to learn why the singer calls her experience “hell” and her father “horrible.”

Britney Spears Sent To Rehab

Jamie Spears, the father of singer Britney Spears, sent his daughter to rehab with a group of what she called “serious drug addicts.”

And Jamie pushed her into the treatment facility for “over-the-counter energy supplements,” the singer revealed via Vanity Fair.

But Britney described it as “hell.” Controlled by her father Jamie, the singer still managed to perform her Las Vegas residency. But Jamie sent her to rehab in 2014 and 2019 due to using OTC energy supplements. And Britney actually started using energy supplements after her then-boyfriend Charlie Ebersol recommended the supplements.

The singer felt that the OTC products boosted her energy amid the show. But as the residency began, Britney weighed her limited options. And she pointed out, “I had two kids. I’d had a breakdown. My parents had taken over my career. What was I going to do at this point, just go home? So I went along with it. I went to Vegas the way everyone goes to Vegas—hoping to win.”

Britney Spears Admits To Taking Adderall

Because Ebersol followed a very specific fitness regime, he took vitamins as well as workout supplements that boosted energy. And so Britney tried them all. But she felt that she enjoyed “more energy onstage and was in better shape than I had been.”

But at the time, Jamie owned the power as her legal conservator. And he disliked what he saw. “It seemed obvious that Charlie’s regimens were a good thing for me,” declared Britney. “But I believe my father started to think that I had a problem with those energy supplements, even though they were over-the-counter, not prescription. So he told me I had to get off them, and he sent me to rehab.”

However, the singer also took Adderall. As a result, she felt like “hell on wheels. I was taking a lot of Adderall.” And Britney went to rehab, fearful that she would lose her sons and without any legal power. As she pointed out, her father “got to say where I went and when. And going to rehab meant that I didn’t get to see my kids for a whole month. The only consolation was that I knew it was just for a month and I’d be done.”

Britney Spears Calls Father ‘Horrible’

But rehab scared her because she lived with “serious drug addicts. I was scared to be there by myself. At least I was allowed to have a security guard, who I’d have lunch with every day.”

And Britney described her father as “selling himself as this amazing guy and devoted grandfather when he was throwing me away, putting me against my will into a place with crack and heroin addicts. I’ll just say it—he was horrible.”

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