By Jen Heger - Breaking Celebrity News Assistant Managing Editor

Even though Britney Spears one time self-professed former "manager" Sam Lutfi is suing the pop star and her parents, the X Factor judge is thankful to him for one thing, bringing her family back together, Breaking Celebrity News is exclusively reporting.

"Britney is being shielded as much as possible from the headlines that are being made from the Lutfi trial, but she is actually thankful to him for bringing her family back together. Britney was cut off from her family when Sam was in her life and her parents were divorced. Had her parents not been so fearful of Sam's influence and control over Britney in 2007 and taken the drastic action to get conservatorship of her…. well, Britney doesn't know where they would all be now," a source close to the situation tells Breaking Celebrity News.

"Lynne and Jamie Spears are officially back together and Britney has never been closer to her parents, especially her mom. Britney has vowed that Sam Lutfi will never tear her family apart ever again and wants absolutely nothing to do with him."

As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Lutfi is suing the Spears family for breach of contract, libel and defamation for comments made in Lynne’s book about her life as Britney’s mom and Lutfi's role in her daughter's affairs.