Britney Spears is not going to stand for ex-husband Kevin Federline’s scathing claims about how she raised their two sons, writing on social media that the allegations in his upcoming ebook are a part of his “fixed gaslighting.”
The “Stronger” and “Oops!… I Did It Once more” pop star hit again at her ex-husband Wednesday night in an announcement shared to X and Instagram, writing that confronting his newest revelations has been “extraordinarily hurtful and exhausting.” The 43-year-old singer, whose conservatorship ended 4 years in the past, mentioned she has “all the time pleaded and screamed to have a life with [her] boys.”
“Relationships with teenage boys is advanced,” her assertion continued. “I’ve felt demoralized by this example and have all the time requested and virtually begged for them to be part of my life.”
Spears and Federline, 47, married in 2004 and divorced three years later after welcoming boys Sean Preston and Jayden James. Federline, a dancer, was awarded sole custody in 2008 when Spears was positioned beneath a conservatorship. In excerpts from his incoming ebook “You Thought You Knew,” Federline accuses Spears of consuming cocaine whereas she was nonetheless breastfeeding their second son. He additionally accuses her of holding a knife whereas she watched her sons sleeping and raises claims in regards to the singer’s alleged dishonest and a bodily incident.
Federline wrote that the alleged cocaine incident occurred in 2006 through the launch get together for his album, in keeping with an excerpt shared with Us Weekly. “The very first thing I noticed was Britney and her younger starlet pal snorting a fats line of coke off the desk,” he mentioned in his ebook. He mentioned he urged the pop star to not “feed the children like this” and that she responded by allegedly throwing a cocktail in his face.
“That’s what ended us,” he wrote, in keeping with Us Weekly.
In a memoir excerpt printed by the New York Instances, Federline alleged that their sons would awake “generally to search out her standing silently within the doorway, watching them sleep” with a knife in her hand. “Then she’d flip round and pad off with out rationalization,” he wrote.
In her social media retort, Spears mentioned their sons “have all the time witnessed the dearth of respect present by [their] personal father for me” and added “they should take accountability for themselves.” She claimed that she had seen one son for less than “45 min prior to now 5 years” and that the opposite has visited solely 4 occasions since 2021. A choose terminated Spears’ controversial conservatorship in November 2021.
“I’ve satisfaction too,” the Grammy-winning vocalist mentioned, including she intends to make herself extra obtainable to her sons.
Federline’s ebook isn’t the primary time he dropped daring claims about Spears. He claimed in a 2022 interview with the Day by day Mail that their sons had “determined they don’t seem to be seeing her proper now” and opted to not attend her marriage to Sam Asghari, whom she has since divorced. On the time, Federline additionally claimed the boys had taken concern together with her scantily-clad Instagram posts.
“I attempt to clarify to them, ‘Look, perhaps that’s simply one other manner she tries to specific herself.’ However that doesn’t take away from the very fact of what it does to them,” he mentioned. “It’s robust … I can’t think about the way it feels to be a teen having to go to highschool” with these posts current.
In response to these feedback, Spears mentioned she gave her sons “the whole lot” and located Federline’s claims “HURTFUL.”
Federline’s “You Thought You Knew” comes out Tuesday, two years after Spears printed her memoir “The Girl in Me.” Her ebook dished on matters together with her struggles with medicine, her relationship with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake and her conservatorship.
Spears mentioned on Wednesday that her ex-husband’s “white lies in that ebook, they’re going straight to the financial institution.” She additionally urged followers to take tabloid reviews about her psychological well being and ingesting with a grain of salt.
“I’m really a fairly clever lady who has been attempting to reside a sacred and personal life the previous 5 years,” she concluded her assertion. “I communicate on this as a result of I’ve had sufficient and any actual lady would do the identical.”
