Britney Spears has reportedly responded to claims made by her ex-husband Kevin Federline in his upcoming memoir, according to a People article published on Tuesday.
“With news from Kevin’s book breaking, once again he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin,” a representative for Spears told People. “All 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].”
Spears and Federline married in 2004, before welcoming sons Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden James, now 19. Their divorce was finalized in 2007.
In his new memoir, You Thought You Knew, out on Oct. 21, Federline recounts a time in which he says their sons were fearful of spending time at their mom’s home as teens.
“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,” Federline writes, per the New York Times. “Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
The New York Times story includes additional excerpts from Federline’s memoir, including his recounting of the evening when Spears was placed under a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following a three-hour standoff with their sons.
Recalling the incident, Federline writes, “It was one of the hardest nights of my life. … I felt sick over what she was going through. This was someone I had loved. Someone I had built a life with. The mother of my children.”
Federline, 47, further articulates his general concern for Spears, 43, in a later chapter, in which he writes that she is “racing toward something irreversible.”
“It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK,” he writes. “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 Spears’s own memoir, released in 2023, she reflected on her break from Federline and what it was like losing custody of their sons. Following their divorce, Federline was granted full physical custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James. Federline currently has custody of the boys, whom he relocated to Hawaii with his wife in 2023.
“If they’d let me live my life, I know I would’ve followed my heart and come out of this the right way and worked it out,” the “Stronger” singer writes of initially losing custody.
Spears was held under a controversial conservatorship for 14 years until November 2021, when, bolstered by the #FreeBritneyMovement, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny agreed to terminate the legal arrangement.
The conservatorship was divided into two parts: the conservatorship of Spears’s estate, which involved control over all her income and financial decisions, and the conservatorship of Spears’s person, which concerned her mental and physical well-being.
“I just want my life back. And it’s been 13 years. And it’s enough,” Spears said in her statement during a 2021 court hearing regarding her conservatorship. “I deserve to have a life. I’ve worked my whole life. I deserve to have a two- to three-year break and just, you know, do what I want to do. … I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does, by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so.”
Ending Spears’s conservatorship, Federline also argues in his book, has had a negative impact on their sons, as he writes, “Now more than ever, [our children] need your support. I’ve been their buffer for years, but now it’s bigger than me. … It’s time to sound the alarm.”
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