An absentee father? Extreme financial control? A royal rift? Outside of the spotlight,
these celebs are feuding with their relatives. We have the details.
Raised to excel in various aspects of the arts from her childhood,
singer Britney Spears always knew she would end up in entertainment. She told Rolling Stone in 1999,
However, what may have seemed like the fulfillment of a childhood dream soon turned into a
nightmare — one that lasted over a decade. After being put on psychiatric hold only weeks before,
Britney entered into a temporary conservatorship in February 2008, with her father Jamie Spears
and her lawyer Andrew Wallet named as temporary conservators. What was supposed to be a temporary
situation, however, soon took a turn when a judge ruled that the conservatorship be
made permanent. This left Jamie in control of his daughter's financial and personal life.
For the next 13 years, Britney remained under the conservatorship, and eventually,
harrowing details about the arrangement came to light. The singer told a judge in June 2021,
The conservatorship did end in November 2021, and Britney has continued to call out both her
father and her mother, Lynne Spears, the latter of whom she's accused of doing nothing to help her.
For as long as they can remember, actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson have been estranged
from their father. Oliver was about 5 years old and Kate was 18 months when their parents
Goldie Hawn and Bill Hudson divorced. The two siblings ended up being raised by their mom
and her longtime partner Kurt Russell, whom they fondly regard as their father. Still,
the sting of growing up without their biological dad lingers. Kate told Today in January 2021,
"But it doesn't take away from the fact that we, we didn't know our dad."
On Father's Day in 2015, Oliver lobbed a shot at Bill on social media while
also appreciating Russell for his love, writing in a post,
Kate also took to the social media platform, sharing a picture of herself and Russell, writing,
After he saw the posts, Bill told the Daily Mail
that he no longer wanted anything to do with Kate and Oliver, saying,
When Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced they were stepping down from royal duties in 2020,
it confirmed long-standing rumors of tension between the Sussexes and the rest of the family.
As royal expert Katie Nicholl shared in Kate v Meghan: Princesses at War?, trouble started
brewing as early as 2017 when Prince William supposedly suggested Harry pump the brakes on
his relationship. This apparently did not sit well with the smitten prince, Nicholl said, adding,
Harry suggested that there was distance between them in his interview with Oprah in 2021.
"The relationship is space at the moment, and, you know, time heals all things."
He also admitted he wished King Charles III showed Meghan more support,
alluding to the way his late mother, Princess Diana, was treated by the media. He told Oprah,
In the same interview, Harry also accused unnamed
members of his family of being racist toward Meghan and their son, Archie.
As if Prince Harry being estranged from other members of his royal family wasn't enough,
wife Meghan Markle has also had her fair share of family drama — particularly with her father,
Thomas Markle. A few days before her May 2018 wedding to Harry,
the Daily Mail broke a story confirming that Thomas had teamed up with British paparazzi
to stage pictures for the tabloids, making about £100,000 from the deal. Controversially,
Thomas, who was at the time set to walk his daughter down the aisle,
pulled out of the wedding last minute, telling TMZ he was scheduled for emergency
heart surgery. From that point forward, things changed forever between the two.
Speaking in a July 2018 interview,
Thomas claimed he had not spoken to his daughter for two months. He told The Sun,
He has also apologized.
"I feel bad about it. I apologize for it, and that's all I can do."
Though Meghan may never totally make amends with her father,
she wants to find peace. She told The Cut in August 2022,
50 Cent has a fraught dynamic with his eldest son, Marquise Jackson,
to say the least. In a 2017 interview, Jackson, who was raised by mom Shaniqua
Tompkins, claimed 50 Cent was an absent father to him, saying,
Things between the father-son duo seemingly took a turn for the worse in 2018 when Jackson
was seen in a photo hanging out with the son of 50 Cent's longtime rival Kenneth McGriff.
According to People, 50 Cent commented on the post that he wouldn't care if a bus
were to hit his son or McGriff's son. Though the rapper has since retracted his comment,
his relationship with his child is still very much strained.
In October 2022, Jackson called out his father's monthly child support rate,
writing in an Instagram post,
And when Charlamagne asked about this on The Breakfast Show, Fifty's response was simply:
"I don't think the relationship works."
No pun intended, but very few rock feuds have rocked our worlds like the one between brothers
Liam and Noel Gallagher. Before the fame, Liam and Noel, who are five years apart,
surely bickered. But once their band Oasis took off in the '90s, that bickering turned
into a full-blown war. During Oasis's 1994 American tour, Noel famously bowed out of
the tour altogether after he'd had it with Liam changing lyrics to songs. According to the Mirror,
only a year after, Liam and Noel were caught in yet another altercation during one of the
band's recording sessions. In the years that followed, the siblings continued to duke it out.
In 2009, Noel made an announcement that would change rock 'n' roll forever,
writing in a statement,
If you are holding your breath for an Oasis reunion,
it's probably never going to happen. Noel said as much to Pub Talk in October 2022.
"Er, would you go on holiday with your ex-missus?"
Needless to say, it's probably best to let those reunion dreams slide away.