Britney Spears is talking out in opposition to claims made by her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, after he publicly expressed considerations about her psychological well being.
Over the previous week, Federline has been discussing his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, and his considerations for Spears. Federline and Spears had been married from 2004 to 2007 and share two sons, Sean Preston Federline, 20, and Jayden James Federline, 19.
“The reality is, this example with Britney feels prefer it’s racing towards one thing irreversible,” Federline, 47, wrote in an excerpt of his ebook, seen by The New York Occasions.
“It’s change into unimaginable to fake the whole lot’s OK,” Federline continued. “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.”
Forward of the discharge of Federline’s memoir on Oct. 21 and in response to the multitude of current information reviews on its contents, Spears took to social media to name her ex-husband out for “gaslighting” and “hurting” the 43-year-old pop star with a ebook she described as stuffed with “white lies.”
“The fixed gaslighting from [my] ex-husband is extraordinarily hurtful and exhausting. I’ve all the time pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys,” the social media put up reads. “Relationships with teenage boys is [sic] advanced. I’ve felt demoralized by this example and have all the time requested and nearly begged for them to be part of my life.”
“Sadly, they’ve all the time witnessed the dearth of respect proven by [their] personal father for me. They should take duty for themselves,” the put up continues. “With one son solely seeing me for 45 min[utes] prior to now 5 years and the opposite with solely 4 visits prior to now 5 years. I’ve delight too.”
Spears’ put up stated that to any extent further she is going to “allow them to know when I’m accessible.”
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“Belief me, these white lies in that ebook, they’re going straight to the financial institution and I’m the one one who genuinely will get damage right here,” the put up provides. “I’ll all the time love them and when you actually know me, you gained’t take note of the tabloids of my psychological well being and ingesting.”
Spears additionally stated she had been residing a “sacred and personal life” since she was launched from her conservatorship, which formally resulted in 2021 after practically 14 years of shut supervision and monitoring.
“I’m truly a fairly clever lady who has been making an attempt to reside a sacred and personal life the previous 5 years. I communicate on this as a result of I’ve had sufficient and any actual lady would do the identical,” the put up concludes.
Earlier this week, a consultant for Spears launched an announcement after Federline alleged that the Poisonous singer watched her sons sleep “with a knife in her hand.”
“With information from Kevin’s ebook 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 consultant for Spears stated in response to excerpts launched from the upcoming memoir.
“All she cares about are her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir,” her rep added of her 2023 ebook, The Girl in Me.
Federline advised The New York Occasions that he hasn’t spoken to Spears “in years.” However in his memoir he reportedly writes about turning into involved with what he describes as Spears’ “erratic habits, which he realized about principally secondhand from their two sons.”
“They might awaken generally 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,” he alleges within the excerpt supplied to the outlet. “Then she’d flip round and pad off with out clarification.
Cowl picture of Kevin Federline’s memoir, ‘You Thought You Knew.’.
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He additionally advised that every one the followers who put their vitality and efforts into the “Free Britney” motion ought to “now put the identical vitality into the ‘Save Britney’ motion.”
“As a result of that is not about freedom. It’s about survival,” he added.
Federline advised the Occasions that he had not mentioned the contents of the memoir with Spears.
“I’ve by no means, ever, as soon as, been in opposition to Britney,” he stated. “I’ve solely tried to assist my sons have an unbelievable relationship with their mom. And it’s onerous as a result of after I actually replicate on the whole lot that’s occurred — my children have no idea the lady that I married. And I’ve spent 20 years making an attempt to bridge that hole.”
Spears and Federline met in 2004 when he was a dancer in a Hollywood membership. They married later that yr, however divorced in 2006, shortly after the delivery of their second son.
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