Britney Spears isn’t ready for a comeback, the pop star’s former manager claims.

Johnny Wright, whose roster of former clients includes Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, and The Jonas Brothers, insist Britney should not be attempting to resurrect her career, but instead concentrating on getting her life back on track after suffering an emotional breakdown last year.

Britney, whose latest album Circus has gone platinum, is set to embark on a world tour in March 2009.

“A comeback is not what I wish for Britney. All her essential relationships have been torn apart. She’s been divorced twice, she doesn’t have custody of her kids, she is being pushed back into being a money machine,” Johnny says in a new interview with OK!

“It’s too soon for her to be a part of a manufactured machine that is pushing her to have to be a success.”

He explains, “In the beginning, in her mind, she could stop at any time. Now she’s thinking, ‘I’ve got 170 people on payroll, my dad quit his job, my mom relies totally on me and I can’t take a break.”

“When a parent becomes an employee of a child, they worry about getting fired, so they stop being parents in order not to get laid off.”

“Britney has to rival Madonna out there, but Madonna really wants to do it. Seeing Britney do it by the numbers isn’t a good sign. It means she might not want it as much as those around her do.”