Kevin Federline displays on his previous marriage to Britney Spears in his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, and makes some wild claims about his ex.
An excerpt from the e-book revealed by way of The New York Occasions on Tuesday, October 14, alleges that Federline, 47, and Spears’ two sons — Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden James, now 19 — had been afraid of staying at their mother’s home.
“They might awaken typically at evening to seek out her standing silently within the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’ — with a knife in her hand,” Federline writes. “Then she’d flip round and pad off with out rationalization.”
Federline and Spears, 43, had been married from 2004 to 2007. He recalled one night in 2008 when Spears was positioned underneath an involuntary psychiatric maintain following a standoff that concerned their sons.
“It was one of many hardest nights of my life,” Federline writes within the e-book. “I felt sick over what she was going by means of. This was somebody I had cherished. Somebody I had constructed a life with. The mom of my kids.”
Following their cut up, Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, positioned her underneath a conservatorship after the singer suffered a public breakdown. Whereas the authorized association has been terminated since November 2021, Federline nonetheless has concern for Britney.
“The reality is, this example with Britney feels prefer it’s racing towards one thing irreversible,” the excerpt reads. “It’s grow to be unimaginable to faux every part’s OK.”
Federline provides, “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 might be left holding the items.”
A consultant for Spears responded to Federline’s claims in an announcement to Us Weekly on Tuesday.
“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 little one help has ended with Kevin,” the assertion reads. “All she cares about are her youngsters, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir [2023’s The Woman in Me].”
In an interview with the newspaper concerning the upcoming e-book, Federline mentioned his sons are his largest concern for the time being.
“I’ve by no means, ever, as soon as, been towards 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 mirror on every part that’s occurred — my youngsters have no idea the lady that I married. And I’ve spent twenty years attempting to bridge that hole.”
Federline additionally addressed the widespread #FreeBritney motion that ran rampant as Spears was in courtroom making an attempt to interrupt free from her conservatorship.
“All these individuals who put a lot effort into that ought to now put the identical vitality into the ‘Save Britney’ motion,” Federline writes in his memoir. “As a result of that is not about freedom. It’s about survival.”
Federline additionally makes a plea to anybody “who has ever been moved by Britney” to share their concern for the exes’ youngsters.
“Now, greater than ever, they want your help,” the e-book excerpt reads. “I’ve been their buffer for years, however now it’s larger than me. It’s time to sound the alarm.”
You Thought You Knew is offered in bookstores subsequent Tuesday, October 21.