Kevin Federline will always remember one telephone name Britney Spears allegedly had with their son Sean Preston inside the previous two years.
“Throughout their dialog, she began her typical routine, blaming me, her father and the remainder of her household for her issues,” Federline, 47, wrote in his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew. “Preston, to his credit score, confronted her. He known as out her lies and refused to simply accept her narrative. Her response was chilling: She advised him she wished he, his brother and me have been all useless.”
When Preston, 20, recounted the dialog, Federline stated he was left feeling “devastated.”
“How might a mom say that to her son? Preston, having dealt along with her vitriol for years, took it higher than I did,” Federline wrote. “He understood her anger and instability, but it surely didn’t make it any much less painful. Trauma like that left scars, ones I concern they’ll carry for the remainder of their lives.”
Earlier than Federline’s guide is launched on Tuesday, October 21, Spears’ rep spoke out in regards to the undertaking.
“With information from Kevin’s guide breaking, as soon as once more he and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after baby help has ended with Kevin,” Spears’ rep stated in a press release to Us on Tuesday, October 14. “All she cares about are her youngsters, 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.
Spears, 43, herself additionally spoke out on-line, telling her followers that “relationships with teenage boys [are] advanced.”

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“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,” she wrote through X on Wednesday, October 15. “I’ve felt demoralized by this example and have all the time requested and nearly begged for them to be part of my life.”
Spears claimed she has solely seen one in every of her sons for 45 minutes previously 5 years. The opposite son allegedly had 4 visits with the singer in that point.
“Belief me, these white lies in that guide, they’re going straight to the financial institution and I’m the one one who genuinely will get harm right here,” Spears continued. “I’ll all the time love them and if you happen to actually know me, you received’t take note of the tabloids of my psychological well being and ingesting. I’m truly a fairly clever girl 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 girl would do the identical.”
In his guide, Federline wrote that he had “to fastidiously information the boys out of the mindset Britney tried to instill in them that everybody else was guilty for her issues.”
“By the point they have been youngsters, that they had began to imagine her narrative,” Federline wrote. “It took numerous conversations and loads of persistence to assist them see the larger image. I by no means spoke badly about her; I merely introduced the info.”
In an unique interview with Us, Federline denied Spears’ claims that his guide is strictly a cash seize.
“Cash’s not the foundation of this factor,” he insisted to Us on Wednesday. “I really feel like, if she has the best to inform her story, why don’t I?”
Spears and Federline have been married from 2004 to 2007.
You Thought You Knew is obtainable on Tuesday, October 21, through Listenin, an audio-first platform.