Britney Spears has revealed that she slept with her brother until she was in sixth grade – when her mother, Lynne Spears, finally forbade it.

The singer, 41, opened up about her ‘extremely close’ relationship with her older brother, Bryan Spears, in her new memoir, The Woman in Me, and she explained that she started sharing a room with him after he was involved in a gruesome accident that resulted in him ‘breaking nearly every bone in his body.’

The Hit Me Baby One More Time songstress explained that the incident made them so ‘much closer’ since they ‘bonded’ over her ‘sincere, genuine recognition of his pain.’

‘[My brother and his friends] had been trying to mow down some tall grass with their four-wheelers,’ she recalled.

Britney Spears has revealed that she slept with her brother until she was in sixth grade – when her mother, Lynne Spears, finally forbade it. She’s seen with her mom and brother in 2006

The singer, 41, opened up about her ‘extremely close’ relationship with her older brother, Bryan Spears, in her new memoir, The Woman in Me

Britney said she started sharing a room with Bryan (seen together as kids) after he was involved in a gruesome accident that resulted in him ‘breaking nearly every bone in his body’

‘This seemed like a fantastic idea to them because they were idiots. Inevitably, they couldn’t see one another through the tall grass and had a head-on collision.’

After he was released from the hospital, the hitmaker explained that she didn’t want to ‘leave his side’ so she began ‘sleeping beside him every night.’

After he was released from the hospital, the hitmaker explained that she didn’t want to ‘leave his side’ so she began ‘sleeping beside him every night.’ They’re seen in 2003

She admitted that while she was given a separate mattress, she would often ‘climb into his bed’ and ‘hold him’ because she wanted to ‘bring him comfort.’

‘He couldn’t sleep in his own bed because he still had the full body cast. So he had a special bed, and they had to set up a little mattress for me at the foot of it. Sometimes, I’d climb into his bed and just hold him,’ she wrote.

‘Even as a very little girl, I knew that – between the accident and how hard our dad was on him – my brother had a difficult life. I wanted to bring him comfort.’

This went on ‘for years’ – up until it became time for her to enter middle school, when their mom finally put an end to it.

‘Finally, after years of this, my mom told me, “Britney now you’re almost in sixth grade. you need to start sleeping by yourself,”‘ she continued.

‘I said no. I was such a baby – I did not want to sleep by myself. But she insisted, and finally I had to give in.’

The pop star said that once she got used to sleeping in her own room, she came to ‘enjoy having her own space.’

She admitted that while she was given a separate mattress, she would often ‘climb into his bed’ and ‘hold him’ because she wanted to ‘bring him comfort.’ She and Bryan are pictured in 2003

This went on ‘for years’ – up until it became time for her to enter middle school, when their mom finally put an end to it. The family is seen in 2003

But she wrote that she ‘remained extremely close’ to Bryan, now 46, adding, ‘He loved me. And I loved him so much.

‘I felt the most endearing, protective love. I didn’t want him ever to be hurt. I’d seen him suffer too much already.’

Bryan, who now works as a film and TV producer, was a co-manager of Britney’s now infamous conservatorship before her father gained full control.

When Britney walked down the aisle with Sam Asghari in 2022, it was reported that Bryan was one of the few members of her family to receive an invite to the wedding.

His girlfriend, Amber Lynn Conklin, explained in an Instagram comment days later that they didn’t attend the nuptials because it fell on the same day as his 11-year-old daughter Lexie’s elementary school graduation ceremony, whom shares with his ex-wife Graciella Sanchez.

However, Britney claimed that she hadn’t actually invited Bryan in a scathing social media post.

She wrote, ‘You were never invited to my wedding so why even respond? You hurt me and you know it.’

It seems they have put their differences behind them, however, because a source told Page Six after she and Sam split in August that she was leaning heavily on Bryan for support.

‘He’s been staying over and helping her, alongside a therapist,’ the insider revealed to the outlet at the time.