New York Times<\/a>, Federline alleged their sons \u201cwould awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep \u2013 \u2018Oh, you\u2019re awake?\u2019 \u2013 with a knife in her hand. Then she\u2019d turn around and pad off without explanation.\u201d<\/p>\nFederline told the New York Times he had not spoken to Spears in years, but said he learned about her alleged behaviour from their two sons.<\/p>\n
Federline also writes in the book about the conservatorship Spears was under between 2008 and 2021, which saw her father control her life and finances. The arrangement prompted Spears\u2019 fans to form the #FreeBritney movement to have her independence restored.<\/p>\n
While the #FreeBritney movement may have \u201cstarted from a good place\u201d, Federline writes in the book, \u201cAll those people who put so much effort into that should now put the same energy into the \u2018Save Britney\u2019 movement. Because this is no longer about freedom. It\u2019s about survival.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis situation with Britney feels like it\u2019s racing toward something irreversible,\u201d he writes. \u201cIt\u2019s become impossible to pretend everything\u2019s OK. From where I sit, the clock is ticking, and we\u2019re getting close to the 11th hour. Something bad is going to happen if things don\u2019t change, and my biggest fear is that our sons will be left holding the pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Spears disputed Federline\u2019s depiction in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe constant gaslighting from ex-husband is extremely hurtful and exhausting,\u201d the eight-time Grammy-winning artist wrote on X. \u201cI have always pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she felt \u201cdemoralised by this situation\u201d and that she had seldom seen her sons, who are now 19 and 20 years old, in recent years.<\/p>\n
\u201cRelationships with teenage boys is complex,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey need to take responsibility for themselves. With one son only seeing me for 45 min in the past five years and the other with only four visits in the past five years. I have pride too. From now on I will let them know when I am available.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTrust me, those white lies in that book, they are going straight to the bank and I am the only one who genuinely gets hurt here,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
She said she had been living a \u201csacred and private life\u201d since she was released from the conservatorship.<\/p>\n
In an earlier statement, a spokesperson for the pop star told the New York Times, \u201cWith news from Kevin\u2019s book breaking, once again he 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 wellbeing during this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Spears\u2019 2023 memoir, The Woman in Me, the pop star claimed that, during their custody battle, Federline \u201ctried to convince everyone that I was completely out of control\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears has responded to her ex-husband Kevin Federline\u2019s claims in his upcoming memoir about their marriage, calling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-217140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}