Britney Spears has cleared up a mystery that perplexed many of her fans and followers and reignited the perennial conspiracy theories claim she is not in charge of her social media accounts.
On Tuesday, the 41-year-old pop superstar posted several semi-nude photos and videos of herself that she said were taken in Mexico, despite claiming last week that she was flying to New York.
But sources told TMZ that the songstress made up her New York trip to throw off her fans and photographers that might have tried to tail her, even though the deception made some fans speculate that she was incapacitated, or even dead.
A since-deleted semi-nude video of Britney in the shower shared shortly after announcing the fake trip last week was reportedly taken while in Mexico, and Britney’s newest posts that she described as being from Mexico seem to show the same shower.
In the driver’s seat: Britney Spears, 41, shared nude photos and videos on Tuesday of herself showering in Mexico. TMZ reported that the photos shut down a major fan theory that she was no longer in charge of her Instagram account
The fan theories that Britney hasn’t been posting her own Instagram material appear to have arisen from fans who couldn’t believe that the erratic nature of her posts, though they are not a major departure from her behavior in recent months.
But the phantom trip to New York also seemed to have concerned some followers.
On December 13, Britney posted a short video of herself inside of a private jet, along with a cute clip of herself embracing her husband Sam Asghari.
She seemed particularly hyperactive in the video and played around in the plane’s bed while kicking her legs out.
But the trip wasn’t out east to New York, but down south to Mexico, according to the publication and her subsequent Instagram posts.
Doesn’t add up: Fans speculated that Britney wasn’t the one posting after she said she was going to New York, but never posted photos and was never spotted there by the paparazzi
Tricky: But sources told TMZ that Britney lied about the trip to throw off her fans and followers, and instead she and Sam flew to Mexico for a vacation
Cleared up: Subsequent shower videos from last week were newly shot from Mexico, not reposted content like some fans theorized
Fans got concerned that her posts that she attributed to Mexico were just older material after she claimed she was flying to New York.
A lack of any paparazzi photos of the hitmaker in the Big Apple also worried fans.
But sources told TMZ that the trip to New York was all a sham, and she and Sam were always planning on going to Mexico for some fun in the sun.
They also claimed that the earlier shower videos that followed the jet post were shot south of the border, rather than being reposted from an older trip.
Another element that confused some of Britney’s most conspiratorial fans was the presence of her parents Lynne, 67, and Jamie Spears, 70, both of whom traveled to Los Angeles last week.
However, they weren’t visiting for an emergency, or anything related to Britney. Instead, the two were reportedly in town to support the daughter of Britney’s brother Bryan Spears.
They were supporting her by watching a Christmas production of The Nutcracker that she was performing in.
Innocent explanation: Fans also worried that something had happened to Britney after her parents Lynne and Jamie Spears were seen in LA last week, but they were just in town to see Britney’s niece perform in The Nutcracker; Lynne and Jamie Spears seen in 2012 in LA
In the first of a series of semi-nude shower posts from Tuesday, Spears seemed to complain about not being able to show more of her body, allegedly due to Instagram’s rules prohibiting nudity.
‘Instagram doesn’t like posts of people revealing their bodies anymore so here’s a selfie of me in Mexico !!!’ she wrote.
But the rest of her captioned seemed to be an olive leaf to her mother Lynne, which amounted to a stunning turnaround after she rejected her mother’s apology in October and told her to instead ‘go f*** yourself.’
‘Mom and Dad … I crossed the border and I made it !!! After no coffee for 15 years ☕️ … Mom we can go have coffee together now !!! I’m treated as an equal … let’s have coffee and talk about it !!!’ she wrote.
Britney has long complained about not being able to drink or even have something as innocuous as coffee while she was under her conservatorship.
In a second post featuring a video of herself nude in the shower, Britney wrote, ‘I’m posting these from Mexico !!!!
‘Honestly I have no idea why but I can see better !!!!’ she wrote, puzzlingly. ‘I was in the shower for 2 hours but we can’t reveal our bodies now !!! There’s something about shooting in water !!! I wanted to see my eyes !!!’
Not happy about the rules: ‘Instagram doesn’t like posts of people revealing their bodies anymore so here’s a selfie of me in Mexico !!!’ Britney wrote, confirming her location on Tuesday
Covering up (partially): Another caption-free photo showed her pushing her breasts together while topless and wearing a straw hat
Change of heart: Britney even hinted at a reconciliation with her mother when she suggested they get coffee together. ‘I’m treated as an equal … let’s have coffee and talk about it,’ she wrote; Lynne and Jamie seen in 2012
Letting loose: Britney also shared a darkened video of herself dancing for her birthday, which occurred on December 2, indicating that it was an older video. However, she referenced Mexico being a ‘hot spot’ in her caption
Another caption-free photo showed her pushing her breasts together while topless and wearing a straw hat.
Although Britney’s surprising post suggested she might be open to burying the hatchet with her mother, it’s a far cry from the vitriol she directed toward Lynne two months earlier.
The Grammy-winning singer, who has 41.6 million followers on the platform, was critical of her family as she referred to her medical history in an Instagram post.
‘For 13 years, I had to meet doctors weekly to bring up my past which made it worse!!!’ she said. ‘As for my whole family including my brother, sister, cousins, aunts, uncles, and well damn the whole audience… were either stoned or drunk of their a**es!!’
Fighting words: Britney Spears appeared to sound off in a social media post she fired off in October after her mother Lynne asked her to unblock her on Instagram; pictured in LA in 2019
The Oops!… I Did It Again vocalist said she ‘was the mother f***ing Saint who was scared to move’ or her father Jamie Spears would put her somewhere if [she] didn’t cooperate … even in America, the land of the free!!!!
Spears said after her father still put her ‘in a psych ward,’ not one mother f***ing person stood up for’ her.
The Toxic artist addressed her mother directly, saying, ‘Mom take your apology and go f*** yourself!!! And to all the doctors for f***ing with my mind … I pray you all burn in hell!!! Kiss my mother f***ing ass!!!!’
The Lucky singer added a picture with a quotation from writer Rita Mae Brown that read, ‘One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.’
Sounding off: The Lucky singer added a picture with a quotation from writer Rita Mae Brown that read, ‘One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory’
‘I have never and will never turn my back on you!’ Back in August, Lynne shared a throwback image of herself laughing with Britney in a forest along with a caption in which she said she has done all she could to support her and again plead to meet in person
Details: Spears said after her father still put her ‘in a psych ward,’ not ‘one mother f***ing person stood up for’ her. He was pictured in 2008
Lynne last week commented on one of the …Baby One More Time’s previous posts about her grievances with her family, apologizing to Britney and asking her to unblock her.
‘I’m sooo sorry for your pain!’ she said. ‘I have been sorry for years! I love you so much and miss you! Please unblock me so I can speak to you in person! Britney, deep down you know how much I love and miss you! I apologize for anything and everything that’s hurt you!”
In Britney’s original post, she shared a graphic design by @jenrichdesign which read ‘I’m not perfect but I’m me.’
She captioned the colorful image to her 42 million followers: ‘I can understand that my posts complaining about my past may seem consistent [rolling eyes emoji] !!!! It must seem like I have an extremely hard time letting it all go … but for me the real problem to me is that my family to this day honestly have no conscious whatsoever and really believe in their minds they have done nothing wrong at all !!!!
‘They could at least take responsibility for their actions and actually own up to the fact they hurt me [three women shrugging emojis] !!!! For me just a genuine apology would help give me closure but it honestly blows my mind every day of my life even after what is known what they did to me, they still act as if that’s ok !!!!’
Interesting: Britney Spears’ mother Lynne apologized to her daughter for her pain and begged that her superstar daughter unblock her ‘so I can speak to you in person’, they are pictured in 2000
‘I’m not perfect but I’m me’: The 40-year-old Toxic hitmaker took to her Instagram last week to share a post captioned asking for a ‘genuine apology’ from her family as it ‘would help give closure’
Her 67-year-old mother has since commented on the post: ‘I am soooo sorry for your pain! I have been sorry for years! I love you so much and miss you!
She went on to say that her family’s reaction to her pleas of an apology show that they neither value or respect her.
Britney continued: ‘That’s the hard part for me and as much as I loved them, it’s something that I’ll probably ever won’t be able to get over. When I post in those moments, I just want to speak from my heart cause it’s extremely hard for me and then I look back and I see how many people say get over it …
‘I’m working on becoming stronger [bicep flexing emoji] !!! Psss I’ve written 3 different versions of my book and had LOTS of therapy through the process … was it worth it ???? Not so sure … Here’s to a new day [rolling eyes sun and rose emojis]!!!’
Back in August, Lynne shared a throwback image of herself laughing with Britney in a forest along with a caption in which she said she has done all she could to support her and again plead to meet in person.
She wrote: ‘Britney, your whole life I have tried my best to support your dreams and wishes! And also, I have tried my best to help you out of hardships! I have never and will never turn my back on you!
‘Your rejections to the countless times I have flown out and calls make me feel hopeless! I have tried everything. I love you so much, but this talk is for you and me only , eye to eye, in private. [red heart and prayer hands emojis]’
Venting: Over the summer, Britney accused her mom of planning to send her to a mental hospital and for ignoring her text messages while she was there; Lynne seen with Jamie Lynn Spears and Briann Aldrige in 2016
Over the summer of this year, Britney feuded with her mother after posting text messages she allegedly sent from a mental hospital to her mother, as well as a friend and her lawyer, which she claimed went unanswered.
‘Britney, I have the “whole conversations” as well!” Lynne said in a reply, though she didn’t include any of the alleged messages.
‘I hurt for you that you feel the people who love you the most betrayed you! Let me come to you! I love you,’ she added.
Britney later accused her mother of having planned out her involuntary commitment, and she even suggested that her mother would hide photos of her daughter, even going so far as to allegedly remove photos that Britney left of herself around their house.
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