Britney Spears has clapped again at ex-husband Kevin Federline's upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew.
“With information from Kevin's e book breaking, as soon as once more he and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after youngster assist has ended with Kevin,” a rep for Spears, 43, stated in a press release to Us Weekly on Tuesday, October 14. “All she cares about are her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism.”
Spears' rep added that the pop star “detailed her journey in her memoir,” The Lady in Me, which was revealed in 2023.
Federline chronicled his marriage to Spears and the aftermath of her controversial conservatorship in his memoir, out October 21. The exes have been married from 2004 to 2007 and share two kids: Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19. Lower than a yr after the exes finalized their divorce, Britney's father, Jamie Spears, positioned her beneath a conservatorship after she had what was described on the time as a public breakdown.
In keeping with an excerpt of the previous backup dancer's e book, revealed by the New York Times on Tuesday, Federline claimed that Sean Preston and Jayden James have been afraid of staying with their mother.
“They'd awaken typically at night time to search out her standing silently within the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you're awake?' — with a knife in her hand,” Federline wrote. “Then she'd flip round and pad off with out clarification.”
Federline additionally recalled “one of many hardest nights” he claimed he ever endured, which concerned Spears being positioned beneath an involuntary psychiatric maintain in 2008 after a standoff that concerned their kids.
“I felt sick over what she was going by means of,” Federline penned. “This was somebody I had liked. Somebody I had constructed a life with. The mom of my kids.”
Federline additionally touched on the Free Britney motion — the general public outcry to finish Jamie's conservatorship over the pop star. (A decide terminated the conservatorship in November 2021.)
In his e book, Federline shared his perception that the motion could have finished extra hurt than good. He additionally mirrored on his ex's social media actions.
“The reality is, this example with Britney feels prefer it's racing towards one thing irreversible,” Federline wrote. “It's develop into inconceivable to fake every little thing's OK. From the place I sit, the clock is ticking, and we're getting near the eleventh hour. One thing dangerous goes to occur if issues don't change, and my largest concern is that our sons will probably be left holding the items.”
In an interview with The New York Occasions, Federline defined that he had not spoken to his ex-wife “in years,” however reiterated he did have her again throughout a few of her most difficult instances.
“I've by no means, ever, as soon as, been in opposition to Britney,” he claimed. “I've solely tried to assist my sons have an unimaginable relationship with their mom. And it's arduous as a result of once I actually replicate on every little thing that's occurred — my children have no idea the lady that I married. And I've spent twenty years making an attempt to bridge that hole.”
Britney and her kids have been at one level estranged following the reversal of her conservatorship. Because of this, Sean Preston and Jayden James moved with their dad to Hawaii. Nonetheless, the singer and her sons have since reunited earlier this yr.
You Thought You Knew is on the market in bookstores subsequent Tuesday, October 21.
 
 

 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 