Lynne's close friend has been speaking out to the press in her behalf:
"She saw great talent in Britney and she had these huge, big dreams and I think she looks back now and she wonders: 'Was all this worth it?'
"She is portrayed as a bad mother, a mother who doesn't care, a mother interested in money.
"The woman Lynne deals with now is not the daughter that left six or seven years ago.
"She have tried interventions and have tried to seek outside assistance from different facilities."
"Her hope has been for a long time that Britney would get the help that she needs and it is hard when your hands are tied and she is an adult and does not want help. Lynne wants someone to get her daughter back."
Mrs Spears, 52, was estranged from her 26-year-old daughter for six months but last week seized control of her daughter's care through the courts.
Lynne encouraged Britney from the age of eight on her path to stardom, even agreeing that she should get bigger breasts as a teenager. In the Rolling Stone article, published today, Britney thought they were way too big and had the procedure reversed.
A source told Rolling Stone magazine that she and Lynne, 52, had made the decision for her to get them, on the assumption that the culture demanded it.
