Jamie Lynn Spears is going through her interior demons on Fox’s Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at, and within the two-hour sequence premiere on January 4, the 31-year-old actor emotionally addressed the backlash from her teenage being pregnant, recalled a previous household tragedy, and opened up about her sister Britney Spears.
The high-intensity survivalist actuality present despatched the Candy Magnolias star and 15 different celebrities to Wadi Rum, Jordan, for 10 days of grueling Particular Forces-inspired coaching workouts. Alongside Danny Amendola, Mel B, Hannah Brown, Tyler Florence, Kate Gosselin, Dwight Howard, Montell Jordan, Gus Kenworthy, Nastia Liukin, Carli Lloyd, Beverley Mitchell, Kenya Moore, Mike Piazza, Dr. Drew Pinsky, and Anthony Scaramucci, Spears examined her bodily and psychological limits beneath the watch of former Particular Forces operatives Rudy Reyes, Mark “Billy” Billingham, Jason “Cunning” Fox, and Remi Adeleke.
Within the two-episode premiere, Spears takes on brutal bodily challenges like diving backwards off a helicopter right into a physique of water and sidestepping throughout two items of rope suspended over 100 ft within the air. She additionally breaks down in tears at a number of factors alongside the journey and briefly speaks on her massive sister Britney, who was launched from her highly-criticized 13-year conservatorship in 2021.
When requested what Spears hoped to realize from the Particular Forces expertise in a spherical of tactical questioning, she stated, “I suppose I simply need to, for myself, really feel like I’m value one thing.” After a Directing Employees agent requested the actor why she feels nugatory, Spears defined, “It simply seems like each time I work actually laborious to get one thing by myself it’s prefer it’s not likely value it. I imply, rising up, my sister grew to become well-known — worldwide well-known — once I was very younger…And so I used to be so happy with her. I really like her to dying. After which, I don’t know. I simply really feel like generally I don’t actually know methods to have something for myself.”
Over the previous a number of years because the #FreeBritney motion gained traction and Britney’s conservatorship struggles grew to become the topic of assorted documentaries — together with Framing Britney Spears, Controlling Britney Spears, Britney Vs. Spears, and extra — Jamie Lynn Spears got here beneath fireplace from her sister’s followers. The 2 sparred on social media after Jamie Lynn gave an ABC Information interview, which aired on Good Morning America and Nightline. And the youthful Spears sister was additionally bashed by Britney followers on TikTok after her Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at casting was introduced.
In a confessional, Spears elaborated about her layered emotions on her sisterhood, saying, “I’m extraordinarily happy with my sister, but additionally have my very own id and count on to be seen as my very own particular person. I wrestle with self-worth on a regular basis, and as a dad or mum, you actually need to faux it since you don’t need to ever see your youngsters really feel the emotions that you simply really feel.”
All through the premiere, Spears additionally opened up concerning the public’s notion of her, the challenges of motherhood, and her daughter’s near-death expertise in 2017. “Something excessive depth round water is unquestionably going to convey again the worst expertise I’ve ever lived via,” Spears stated in a confessional forward of her helicopter plunge. After rising from the water post-helicopter drop, Spears began vomiting and sobbing. “This jogs my memory of rescuing my daughter…” she cried. “I didn’t know it will have an effect on me like that.”
When Spears’ oldest daughter Maddie, now 14, was eight years previous, her ATV crashed in a pond and left her submerged underwater for a number of minutes. “Once I needed to save my daughter — or attempt to save her — from an accident, I needed to propel myself right into a pond,” Spears tearfully informed Directing Employees brokers throughout the spherical of Particular Forces tactical questioning. “I didn’t understand how a lot your physique remembers issues.”
In a confessional, Spears defined, “My eight-year-old was in an accident the place she drowned and I instantly dive in and I couldn’t get her up. The paramedic jumps proper into the water, they pull her out, after which they laid her beside me. She wasn’t respiration. She was blue. And it was unhealthy. And all I saved interested by was seeing her not respiration. They had been engaged on her after which they received a pulse.”
A Directing Employees agent inspired Spears to struggle her demons and go away the previous up to now, however she was so shaken up by the bodily problem that she had a sleepless evening and awoke wanting to move house. “I simply really feel like I’m being a shitty mother — like I shouldn’t simply go away my children like that,” Spears defined to her fellow recruits. “I can’t deal with being this far-off from them I’m not lower out for it.”
“The considered being away from my children…I believe it most likely goes again to a variety of issues,” Spears informed cameras. “I used to be 16 and pregnant and I used to be on the quilt of {a magazine} being known as a slut and a whore. It’s my very own battle inside to be an excellent mother, and I do suppose that stems from being informed I wouldn’t be.”
Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at contestants can solely go away the course is by handing of their armbands and self-eliminating or being unable to compete as a result of harm, and on the finish of the premiere — although a number of contestants headed house — Spears remained. Tune in subsequent week to see how lengthy she sticks it out, and what different demons she confronts.
New episodes of Particular Forces: World’s Hardest Take a look at air on Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m. ET on Fox.
