The wellbeing of pop icon Britney Spears has been a hot topic for years and now her ex-husband Kevin Federline has fanned the flames by levying a series of explosive claims against her in his new book
Fears for Britney Spears have been mounting in recent months, and now her ex-husband Kevin Federline has added fuel to the fire with a series of wild claims in his new memoir.
Kevin, 47, married the popstar in 2004 following a whirlwind romance and the former couple went onto have two sons, Sean Preston, 19, and Jayden, 18. The former backing dancer was granted full custody of the boys a year after they divorced, in the wake of Britney’s mental health battles.
According to an excerpt obtained by the New York Times, in the 47-year-old’s upcoming book You Thought You Knew, Federline alleges that the children would wake up to find their mother holding a knife at their bedroom door while watching them sleep.
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“They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep – “Oh, you’re awake?” – with a knife in her hand,” writes Kevin. “Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
The knife allegation follows claims made by Britney’s sister Jamie Lynn Spears in her 2022 memoir Things I Never Said. Jamie, 34, alleged Britney had locked them both in a room together while holding a knife, a claim the singer branded “crazy lies”.
Federline goes on to claim that the boys cited ‘fear’ as a reason for not wanting to visit their mother at home in their teenage years. Talking about the infamous night in 2008 which saw Britney committed to the psych ward of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after refusing to relinquish her sons to their father, he insisted it was “one of the hardest nights of my life”.
The star was placed on a 5150 psychiatric hold and Federline was granted full custody of the children with Britney forced to pay him a sizeable child maintenance each month.
Britney’s relationship with her sons is said to remained strained and the boys moved to Hawaii with their father in August 2023. In her own memoir The Woman in Me, which was released the same year, Britney hit back at her ex-husband.
“Kevin tried to convince everyone that I was completely out of control,” she said. “He started to say I shouldn’t have my kids anymore – at all.”
The singer revealed she had struggled with postpartum depression and admitted to taking Adderall, an ADHD medication, but denied having a drinking or drug problem.
Chillingly, in his memoir Kevin voiced his fears the “clock is ticking” for his ex-wife. “The truth is, this situation with Britney feels like it’s racing toward something irreversible,” he said. “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK.
“From where I sit, the clock is ticking, and we’re getting close to the 11th hour. Something bad is going to happen if things don’t change and my biggest fear is that our sons will be left holding the pieces.”
In a statement provided to Us Weekly, Spears’ representative said, “Once again [Federline] and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin.
“All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being during this sensationalism,” they added.
It comes as he also claimed he caught Britney on the phone to her ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, the night before their wedding when they were staying at the Fairmont in Santa Monica.
“I’m like, ‘What’s wrong?’ I thought she was talking to her mom on the phone or something and maybe she was, like, having doubts. And she told me that she was on the phone with Justin.
“I just kind of stepped back like, ‘Did I just hear you right? What the hell is going on?’ And I immediately was, ‘Okay, we don’t have to do this.’ I didn’t care if we got married or not,” he said. “And she told me no and really was like, ‘I just wanted to make sure that everything is done. I want to make sure that I say my final piece.’ I’m like, ‘Damn. On the night before our wedding, this is what you decide to do?'”
Source: Mirror
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