Britney Spears and Kevin Federline‘s relationship bought off to a hot-and-heavy begin.
In his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, Federline, 47, recollects Spears, 43, taking him again to her lodge the identical evening {that a} mutual good friend had set them up.
Whereas Federline was a backup dancer for LFO when the band opened for Spears on her 2000 tour, he by no means correctly met the Princess of Pop till fellow dancer Teresa Espinosa launched them at Joseph's nightclub in Hollywood in 2004.
“The second I sat down, all the pieces else form of simply pale into the background,” he writes. “It was simply me and her.”
Federline, who was 26 on the time, admits he was “simply serious about smashing” Spears and had no concept they might go on to marry.
Ultimately, Spears invited Federline to affix her crew for a late-night swim on the Beverly Hills Lodge, the place she “had a bungalow with a non-public pool and scorching tub.”
“Then, whereas everybody was nonetheless swimming, Britney bought out of the new tub, grabbed my arm and led me into the bungalow,” he writes. “Everybody else should have bought the message and ultimately left. I wasn't fearful about anybody else although.”
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As soon as inside, Spears instantly “rotated, slipped off her underwear and began kissing” Federline, in response to his account, whereas “tearing at [his] garments with each palms.”
“We stumbled towards the mattress whereas I struggled to kick my pants off my ankles,” he remembers. “This. Is. Occurring.”
Nonetheless, Federline stops the anecdote there, telling readers, “Okay. Sorry, settle down, that's as detailed as I'm going to get on that.”
Federline shares that the night was “purely bodily,” however what began as “one evening turned two, then stretched into three, the entire time holed up in that bungalow.”
The pair rapidly bought to know one another, after which Spears invited Federline to affix her on the European leg of her Onyx Lodge Tour.
The couple mentioned “I do” later that 12 months. After welcoming sons Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, in 2005 and 2006, respectively, their whirlwind marriage led to divorce in 2007.
Once you're as iconic within the leisure trade as Britney Spears, it is onerous to maintain your love life below wraps. And the pop princess has positively had her justifiable share of well-known boyfriends — do the names Justin Timberlake, Fred Durst, Okay-Fed and Criss Angel ring a bell?
Forward of the Tuesday, October 21, launch of You Thought You Knew, Spears publicly slammed Federline for its explosive claims.
“The fixed gaslighting from [my] ex-husband is extraordinarily hurtful and exhausting,” she wrote by way of X on Wednesday, October 15, earlier than calling out his “white lies” which might be “going straight to the financial institution.”
That very same day, Us Weekly solely interviewed Federline, who insisted, “Cash's not the foundation of this factor. I really feel like, if she has the correct to inform her story, why don't I?”
Certainly, Spears did look again on her ill-fated romance with Federline in her personal 2023 bestseller, The Lady in Me, together with the evening they met.
Britney Spears lastly has the prospect to share her aspect of the story — and she or he isn't holding again about something. The pop star addressed her ups and downs over time in The Lady in Me, which was launched in October 2023. From her public struggles to her controversial 13-year conservatorship, nothing was off […]
“At first, my relationship with Kevin was bodily,” she wrote, clarifying that it was extra about intimacy than “a sexual factor.”
Today, Spears and Federline are not on talking phrases, although she has reconciled together with her once-estranged kids over the previous 12 months.
“Rebuilding her relationship together with her sons is her greatest precedence proper now,” a supply solely instructed Us in September.
You Thought You Knew is out there on Tuesday, October 21, by way of Listenin, an audio-first platform.
