{"id":1916,"date":"2022-09-09T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2022-09-10T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:22:45","slug":"britney-spears-says-i-dont-believe-in-god-anymore-in-latest-audio-recording-discussing-her-children-cbs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/britney-spears-says-i-dont-believe-in-god-anymore-in-latest-audio-recording-discussing-her-children-cbs-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears says &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in God anymore&#8221; in latest audio recording discussing her children &#8211; CBS News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cs-blog-content\">\n<p>This is very sad. \u00a0While we don&#8217;t necessarily approve of all that Britney Spears does we do want her to have a strong relationship with God and a strong relationship with her family. \u00a0Let&#8217;s keep praying for healing here, not just for Britney and her family but for all families who are struggling to get along!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1918\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/britney-spears-says-i-dont-believe-in-god-anymore-in-latest-audio-recording-discussing-her-children-cbs-news\/gettyimages-1157259255-jpg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?fit=1200%2C630\" data-orig-size=\"1200,630\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"gettyimages-1157259255.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?fit=1024%2C538\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1918\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?resize=300%2C158\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?resize=300%2C158 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?resize=1024%2C538 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?resize=768%2C403 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?w=1200 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Britney Spears released another audio recording on Monday, this time going into detail on her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CiIxOheNcxX\/\">Instagram<\/a> about her relationships with her sons, Jayden and Sean Preston, and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline. The recording comes after a controversial interview with Federline and Jayden.<\/p>\n<p>Spears&#8217; three-minute recording starts with her saying, &#8220;I can totally understand why my family would have a problem with me doing my own thing, maybe &#8217;cause I never have,&#8221; in reference to the minimal autonomy she had for more than 13 years while under a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/britney-spears-hints-oprah-interview-conservatorship-comments\/\">conservatorship<\/a>\u00a0that gave her father, Jamie Spears, control over aspects of her life, including her finances and medical decisions. Federline has sole custody of both of their children.<\/p>\n<p>Spears ended the recording by discussing how her religious beliefs have been impacted by her experience of her conservatorship, saying, &#8220;God would not [have allowed] that to happen to me if God existed. I don&#8217;t believe in God anymore because of the way my children and my family have treated me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is nothing to believe in anymore. I&#8217;m an atheist, y&#8217;all,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The interview with Federline and Jayden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2022-08-08\/britney-spears-ex-husband-claims-conservatorship-saved-her\">aired on ITV<\/a> last month and also last week shown on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YxQd4FFQ0UU\">60 Minutes Australia<\/a>,&#8221; which is not connected to CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the interview, Jayden Federline defended his grandfather, saying he &#8220;doesn&#8217;t deserve all the hatred he is getting in the media.&#8221; He also express support for his grandmother, Lynne, who Spears has accused of backing the conservatorship.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Kevin Federline said in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2022-08-08\/britney-spears-ex-husband-claims-conservatorship-saved-her\">ITV interview<\/a>\u00a0that he believes the conservatorship \u2014 which Spears has referred to as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/britney-spears-shares-chilling-claims-about-conservatorship-apparent-voice-message\/\">&#8220;pure abuse&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>\u2014 was justified, and ultimately that Spears&#8217; father &#8220;saved her back then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview also revealed that Spears&#8217; sons chose not to attend their mother&#8217;s wedding to model\/actor Sam Ashgari because &#8220;she didn&#8217;t invite the whole family, and then if it was just going to be me and Preston, I just don&#8217;t see how that situation would have ended on good terms,&#8221; said Jayden.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Federline alleged that Spears&#8217; social media presence has had a negative impact on her sons. &#8220;I try to explain to them, &#8216;Look, maybe that&#8217;s just another way she tries to express herself.&#8217; But that doesn&#8217;t take away from the fact of what it does to them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Jayden also disapproved of his mother&#8217;s Instagram use, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s almost like she has to post something on Instagram to get some attention. This has gone on for years and years and years, and there&#8217;s a high chance that this will never stop, but I&#8217;m hoping for me that she will stop.&#8221;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIn an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CiBr8VLJhGj\/\">Instagram video<\/a> posted Saturday, Spears seemingly responded to these claims, writing in the caption, &#8220;I&#8217;m so sorry children I continue to do social media \u2026 I&#8217;m sorry you feel I do it for attention \u2026 I&#8217;m sorry for the way you feel \u2026 but guess what ???? I&#8217;ve got news for you \u2026 I&#8217;m a child of God as well we all are in God&#8217;s eyes \u2026 so NOPE I&#8217;m not sorry \u2026 I&#8217;ve learned to say SO !!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In Monday&#8217;s audio recording, Spears delved further into the conflict, addressing her younger son, now 15, directly: &#8220;Jayden, as you undermine my behavior just like my whole family always has with, &#8216;Hope she gets better. I will pray for her&#8217; \u2014 pray for what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you guys want me to get better so I can continue paying your dad 40 grand a month, or is the reasoning behind you guys deciding to be hateful is because it&#8217;s actually over in two years and you don&#8217;t get anything?&#8221; Spears added, alluding to Federline being no longer be eligible to collect their child support payments when her children turn 18.<\/p>\n<p>Spears maintained in Monday&#8217;s recording that she continuously asked her sons for more time together, but that they would leave her house early during scheduled custody visits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I didn&#8217;t shower you guys with gifts, and have amazing food ready and play a [expletive] saint, it was still never good enough,&#8221; she said. Spears also recalled a time she directly told Jayden she wanted to see him more, and alleges the following response, addressing him directly: &#8220;You called your dad. I never saw you again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This content was originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/britney-spears-instagram-jayden-kevin-federline-interview-response\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is very sad. \u00a0While we don&#8217;t necessarily approve of all that Britney Spears does we do want her to have a strong relationship with God and a strong relationship with her family. \u00a0Let&#8217;s keep praying for healing here, not just for Britney and her family but for all families who are struggling to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-uU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/gettyimages-1157259255.jpg?fit=1200%2C630","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}