Pop superstar Britney Spears is making headlines once again, this time for declaring that she no longer believes in God: "I'm an atheist, y'all."
Spears' revelation that she no longer believes in God can be heard in an audio recording shared on YouTube Monday after "60 Minutes Australia" aired an interview with her ex-husband, Keven Federline, and their son, Jayden. On the recording, Britney accuses her children of "being obnoxious" and "undermining her behavior."
"There's nothing to believe in anymore. I'm an atheist, y'all," Spears said at the end of a three-minute tirade with her son, Jayden, where she rattled off a list of the financial obligations she's taken on in her decades-long career, including paying her mother's legal fees and sending her ex-husband $40,000 a month.
In the profanity-laden recording, Spears opens up about her relationship with her sons, Jayden and Sean Preston, her ex-husband, and her sons' reactions to what she described as the trauma her parents and other family members put her through. They did happen after their music, and her career took off in the late 1990s.
Last November, the singer was released from a conservatorship in which her father, James "Jamie" Spears, had control of her finances, estimated at around $60 million. A judge awarded him conservatorship of her in 2008 following Britney's mental breakdown in which she allegedly contemplated suicide following a custody battle a year earlier when Federline was awarded sole custody of her two children. . That same year, Spears was photographed by paparazzi shaving her head after leaving a rehab center in Los Angeles, raising concerns about her stability at the time.
Spears, now free of conservatorship, has regained control of her finances, married for the second time and last week released her first song in six years. However, according to ITV and a "60 Minutes Australia" interview with Federline and Jayden, the children have not seen their mother in months and refused to attend her star-studded wedding because no one else in the family had been invited.
In the recording in which Spears affirmed that if God really existed, she would not have suffered or lost the autonomy to make her own decisions for 13 years: "God would not [have] allowed that to happen to me if God existed. I no longer believe in God for the way my children and my family have treated me.
The “Oops! I did it again” The singer's newfound atheism goes against the faith she previously testified to when she said it was God who allowed her to overcome the anguish of the past 13 years.
In his interview, Jayden said his grandfather "doesn't deserve all the hate he's getting in the media." He further explained that he and his brother decided not to attend his mother's wedding to model and actor Sam Ashgari because "she didn't invite the whole family." "And then if it was just me and Preston, I just don't see how that situation would have ended on a good note," he added.
Spears, who was raised in the Southern Baptist denomination, told a judge during a virtual court hearing on her conservatorship that instead of undergoing intense therapy several times a week, she prefers to talk to God.
The 40-year-old woman said at the time that she wanted to end her conservatorship without having to be psychologically evaluated because other doctors had prescribed strong medications, such as lithium.
Spears said a doctor “unlawfully… 100% abused me for the treatment he gave me. And to be totally honest with you, when he passed away, I got down on my knees and thanked God."
At the time, she had to see a therapist and a doctor about four times a week: “I feel like I can't live a full life. I shouldn't go to see a man I don't know and share my problems with him. I don't even believe in therapy. I always think you take it to God.”
The pop star's statement might come as a surprise to many of her fans because in an Instagram post shared three days ago, Spears mentioned having faith in God.
“I am also a child of God; we are all in the eyes of God,” he said.
