Following a tense couple of years, Jamie Lynn is opening up about her current relationship with superstar big sis Britney Spears on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here.
On the latest episode of the Australian reality series, the Zoey 101 actress revealed that she and Brit are on good terms — even after the elder Spears sister wrote that Jamie Lynn was a “total b-tch” in her new memoir The Woman in Me. “I love her,” the Dancing With the Stars alum told her fellow contestants of the “Toxic” singer.
“Me and her throw down,” she added, referencing the famous siblings’ numerous public spats over the years. “The world’s seen that. I’ve learned to stop talking about it publicly, but you know what, families fight. Listen, we just do it better than most.”
Jamie Lynn also said that she’d spoken with Britney before coming on I’m a Celebrity, noting that the pop star was “probably checking in on me heavily.” “Me and her both have had a very complicated upbringing,” explained the Zoey 102 star. “We’ve had very complicated circumstances and we both had to deal with them in different ways.”
“Sometimes we took it out on each other when perhaps we shouldn’t have,” she continued. “I’ve been the one person in her life — and she can say this — I’ve never taken anything from her, you know? I’ve been the one person in her life who’s always said, ‘I just want to be your sister.’”
Though the hatchet seems to have been buried, the Spears sisters have had a tumultuous relationship over the past few years — particularly in relation to Britney’s conservatorship battle. After the 13-year financial hold was legally terminated in November 2021, she and Jamie Lynn started butting heads on social media over claims made by the younger Spears in interviews and in her own memoir, Things I Should Have Said, which she published in 2022.
In 2023, Britney published The Woman in Me. Noting in the book that she thought Jamie Lynn “should have taken my side” in their family’s legal debacle, the “Womanizer” artist also wrote: “As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, [Jamie Lynn] was writing a book capitalizing on it. She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous.”
On I’m a Celebrity, Jamie Lynn also recalled feeling worried about what her classmates would say to her after seeing Brit’s iconic VMAs kiss with Madonna, even though she says she always came to her sister’s defense at school. “Anything my sister did I always thought was the best,” she said. “When it came to my sister… if somebody said anything about it, I was ready to go. I was like, ‘Don’t talk about my sister, she’s the best.’”
Watch Jamie Lynn open up about her relationship with Britney below:
