It has been more than 20 years since the marriage between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, and almost the same since their divorce, but the name of the dancer and DJ has been forever associated with that of the famous pop princess, with whom he had two children in common, now of legal age. Although Federline preferred to move away from the spotlight after that divorce, he is now back in the spotlight with a book of memoirs that will hit bookstores at the end of October, and with some interviews in which he talks about what he knows will make him sell the most copies: his relationship with Spears.
To do this, the Californian dancer sat down to talk with , where he explained that he has not spoken to the singer for years, but that he watches her from a distance, as the mother of his children, and is afraid of her erratic behavior. In the book, called You Thought You Knew (which can be translated as “You thought you knew”) and which will go on sale next Tuesday the 21st, published by Listenin in the United States, Federline goes so far as to affirm that “the situation with Britney seems to be moving rapidly towards something irreversible.” “It is impossible to continue pretending that everything is fine,” he says. “From my point of view, time is running out and we are approaching the decisive hour. If things don’t change, something bad is going to happen, and what worries me most is that our children will be left with problems.”
Federline is now 47 years old and seems far from the twenty-something he was in September 2004, when he met the then absolute queen of pop. For her it was her second time, after a failed one; Although she had only been dating Federline for six months, she decided to take the step. However, as Federline tells in another interview with the media, on the night before the wedding Spears called her ex-partner, fellow singer Justin Timberlake. All the alarms went off for him and he made it clear to his then-girlfriend that he was not going to get married if she still had feelings for the N’Sync vocalist. She assured that it was just a call to say goodbye to him, one last time. He trusted her word and today, looking back, he states that he is not sure if she was still in love with Timberlake, but it is clear that she is not with him.
A year later, their first child, Sean Preston, was born, and in the fall of 2006 their second, Jayden James. The announcement of that same year, due to “irreconcilable differences.” He had custody of the children since 2008. Later, he remarried volleyball player Victoria Prince and had two more daughters.
The battle for that custody was tough, as both have recounted in their respective memoirs. In the interview about them, the dancer assures: “Never, ever, not once, have I been against Britney.” “I’ve just tried to help my children have an incredible relationship with their mother. And it’s hard because when I reflect on everything that’s happened, I see that my children don’t know who the woman I married is. I’ve spent two decades trying to close that gap.” Now, in recent years, Spears has shown photographs and videos with her children on her networks, with whom she is gradually recovering her relationship.
But for years today’s young people did not see their mother. On some occasion, as Federline tells in the book and always according to her version, the boys even begged her not to make them spend time with her. They were afraid. “Sometimes they would wake up in the night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep—’Oh, are you awake?’—with a knife in her hand. Then she would turn around and leave without explanation,” he writes in his memoirs.
The second of the singer’s three ex-husbands, who with another dancer, Sam Asghari, of whom, also talks about the guardianship by which Jamie Spears had personal, professional and financial control over her daughter. She remembers how it all began, in 2008, when she was admitted to Cedars Sinai Hospital and placed after a fight that lasted more than three hours that involved her children. “It was one of the hardest nights of my life. It made me sick to see how everything was going, with someone I loved, with whom I had built my life, the mother of my children.”
He understands that this guardianship has ended and even praises, Liberad and Britneywhich moved fans from all over the world, but believes that today it has made anyone who wants to protect and care for the singer viewed with suspicion, and that no one wants to approach her out of fear. “All those people who put so much effort into that should now put the same energy into the movement.” Salvad a Britney. Because it’s no longer about freedom. It’s about survival.” Although he acknowledges that he himself is not clear about the method to help her: “Now, more than ever, she needs your help. I’ve been his buffer for years, but now this is beyond me. It is time to sound the alarm.”
Although Spears declined on Monday to comment in response to the article The New York TimesYes, he spoke with the magazine this Tuesday, through a spokesperson. “With the publication of the news about Kevin’s book, once again he and others are benefiting from it and, unfortunately, this occurs after Kevin has stopped paying child support,” he says. “The only thing that matters [a Spears] It’s their children, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being amid all this sensationalism. “She has detailed her career in her memoirs,” he says, referring to , which was published two years ago.
In that biography, Spears claimed that her battle for custody of her children against Federline was very tough, and that he did not allow her to see the children for weeks and that he tried to “convince everyone” that she was “out of control.” “It took my whole world away,” he wrote. “It left me breathless. And my family didn’t support me.”
