Britney's Uncle Says She's Had a Substance Abuse Problem Since She Was 13
Britney's Spears' uncle gave an interview
to The Sun in which he says that Britney has been drinking and doing drugs since she was 13. He says her father and mother fought constantly when she was a child and that her dad was a raging alcoholic, as is much of the family. He personally did cocaine and smoked pot with Britney at her 18th birthday party.
After her turbulent early years, Willie says she went "buck-wild" on turning 18, snorting cocaine on her birthday, adding: "She has tried just about everything - cocaine, crystal meth, ecstasy."
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On one occasion, he was invited to a Florida wrap party for Disney kids' TV show Mickey Mouse Club - which Britney fronted alongside JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE and CHRISTINA AGUILERA.
He says: "The kids were definitely drinking that night. While the adults talked, they were somewhere else, up to no good.
They had a bottle of gin and slipped away to the bathroom to drink it. I saw them going."
But Willie is certain Britney was exposed to drink and drugs long before she hit the big time.
"Her brother Bryan was the star of the high school football team. They went to all the best parties where there were drugs and alcohol -- a lot."
He believes her drug-taking started at 14 with marijuana but adds: "It got worse when she got famous and she found out that people would do what she wanted them to.
She's tried just about everything.
She wanted to drink, party and go where she wanted to go.
She is a ruthless little thing, make no mistake. Nobody controls her. She bosses everyone around her."
Willie says his brother JAMIE - Britney's dad -- must take a large chunk of responsibility for her boozy lifestyle.
"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."
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He says: "Britney is in an unstable state of mind now and there is nothing anyone can do about it. She is not listening to anybody.
She has fired all the people around her who cared because she simply doesn’t want people to tell her to stop doing the things she is doing."
Willie believes Britney's demise was inevitable.
He adds: "She was a sweet young girl but as she grew up and saw the violence, the alcohol and everything, she became what she saw -- as mean and hard-drinking as the rest of the family.
That kind of childhood would make anyone unstable. It did with me.
If people think she has reached the bottom, they are very wrong. Suicide is the bottom line for Britney."
It's a pretty shocking interview, but it explains a lot. It sounds like Britney's handlers kept her image wholesome in her early career days for as long as they could. But when the stress of fame hit her and she got full control of her money, the wheels came off. We hope her uncle is wrong and that there is still time to get her some help.
