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\nBritney Spears called her son Preston with a “chilling” message several years ago, Kevin Federline writesSpears and Federline share sons Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19Federline’s memoir You Thought You Knew is out now<\/p>\n
Britney Spears<\/a> had some harsh words for her young son on a heated phone call, her ex-husband Kevin Federline<\/a> claims in his new memoir.\n<\/p>\n Federline, 47, was married to Spears, 43, from 2004 to 2007, and the two endured a messy custody battle over their sons Sean Preston<\/a>, 20, and Jayden James<\/a>, 19.\n<\/p>\n In Federline\u2019s memoir You Thought You Knew<\/a>, he writes that after the pop star\u2019s conservatorship ended in 2021<\/a>, her social media posts became more \u201cerratic,\u201d and her sons stopped using social media in order to avoid negativity aimed at them by some of her supporters.\n<\/p>\n The boys\u2019 fraught relationship with their mother reached what Federline describes as a \u201cbreaking point\u201d shortly after he moved his family to Hawaii<\/a> in 2023. The former dancer and DJ writes that Preston was on vacation in Europe with his girlfriend\u2019s family when Spears called and things got heated as she blamed Federline, her dad Jamie and more family members for her \u201cproblems.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cPreston, to his credit, confronted her. He called out her lies and refused to accept her narrative. Her response was chilling: she told him she wished he, his brother, and me were all dead,\u201d Federline writes. \u201cHearing Preston recount that conversation devastated me\u2026 Trauma like that left scars, ones I fear they\u2019ll carry for the rest of their lives.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Kevin Federline and Britney Spears at a Grammys party in Los Angeles in February 2005.<\/p>\n Matthew Simmons\/Getty<\/p>\n A rep for Spears did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n<\/p>\n The \u201cGimme More\u201d singer\u2019s relationship with her sons has frayed over the years, though she shared a photo with Jayden to Instagram in June, and told PEOPLE in 2023 that becoming a mom was a \u201cdream come true.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Jayden spoke to The Daily Mail in 2022 about their troubles, saying he \u201c100 percent think[s]\u201d things between them can be \u201cfixed.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just going to take a lot of time and effort. I just want her to get better mentally,\u201d he said at the time. \u201cWhen she gets better I really want to see her again.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Jayden also said that Preston had asked Spears \u201cnot to post his photos [to social media], and she did it anyway. So it didn\u2019t go well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Kevin Federline’s memoir.<\/p>\n Listenin<\/p>\n A representative for Spears spoke out in a statement<\/a> ahead of the release of Federline\u2019s memoir.\n<\/p>\n \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,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cAll she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James and their well-being during this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir [The Woman in Me].\u201d\n<\/p>\n Spears has also issued two statements<\/a> to social media herself in response. In the first, on Wednesday, Oct. 15, she wrote that she’s “had enough” of Federline “constantly gaslighting her. “Relationships with teenage boys is complex … Sadly, they have always witnessed the lack of respect shown by [their] own father for me. They need to take responsibility for themselves.”\u00a0In an additional statement on Thursday, Oct. 16<\/a>, Spears said, “If you really love someone then you don\u2019t help them by humiliating them … \u00a0They secretly love to cast me out and make me feel completely isolated.”\n<\/p>\n In her 2023 memoir, Spears praises her children, calling Preston \u201ca genius at school,\u201d and highlighting Jayden\u2019s \u201cincredible gift with the piano.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Britney Spears called her son Preston with a “chilling” message several years ago, Kevin Federline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-81308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}