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Britney Spears' former best friend and assistant Sean Phillip has opened up for the first time about working and living with the pop star prior to her 2008 conservatorship.
Phillip spoke to The Sun about his time near Spears.
He met Spears in 2003 but began working for her as a personal trainer in 2006.
The position, however, quickly morphed, which Phillip says allowed him to see how the singer's relationship with her father first-hand.
'Things started becoming uncomfortable when my role turned into a 24-hour job. I was the stylist, I was the babysitter, I was the trainer, I was security, I was the paparazzi liaison officer — begging them to not take pictures of her.
Witness: Britney Spears' former employee and friend Sean Phillip says he witnessed her be given prescription drugs before her conservatorship was put in place in 2008
Phillip says Jamie Spears had 'no compassion' when it came to his daughter, telling The Sun: 'Jamie only wanted to be Britney’s father when she turned 26 and was a multi-millionaire.'
'When she started having problems, he came in — but he had no compassion, and just didn’t seem to care about his daughter’s wellbeing.
Sean also claimed that Spears' finances were being controlled prior to 2008 breakdown which prompted the conservatorship, saying: 'It was crazy. They took away her credit cards, her phone went, she wasn’t even given the access code