LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kevin Federline says concern for his two sons with Britney Spears lengthy stored him from telling his story, and those self same considerations are the explanation he is telling it now that they are males.
In a memoir to be launched Tuesday, “You Thought You Knew,” Federline paperwork his tough years as husband, ex-husband, and co-parent with Spears, who wrote her personal memoir in 2023.
Federline’s consists of some salacious tales and a few doubtlessly disturbing particulars about her conduct which have already made headlines.
“I want my children to be able to move forward in their lives and know that the actual truth of everything is out there,” Federline, 47, informed The Related Press in a Zoom interview, backed by palm timber in Hawaii, the place he now lives with spouse Victoria Prince and their two daughters. “That’s a very, very big part of this for me. And it’s really important that I share my story, so they don’t have to.”
He and Spears’ son Preston is now 20 and his brother Jayden is nineteen. They’ve little relationship with their mom.
Federline was a 26-year-old backup dancer for different main pop acts when he coupled with Spears in 2004. Their courtship, two-year marriage and divorce took them by some of the intense superstar media frenzies in trendy historical past. Federline was ruthlessly roasted as a loser hanger-on, particularly after he launched his personal deeply mocked hip-hop album.
“I wasn’t just famous — I was infamous,” he writes within the ebook, which might be launched on the brand new audiobook first platform Listenin.
He informed the AP he lengthy thought-about writing the ebook, however lately obtained severe about it.
“I picked it up and put it down quite a lot over probably a five-year period,” he stated. “I think that it’s a very good description of me, who I am, the father I’ve become, the husband I am, the ex-husband I am.”
Key revelations from Kevin Federline about Britney Spears
— Federline describes the evening he and Spears first linked at a Hollywood nightclub, and the way they connected hours later in a lodge bungalow: “Britney turned around, slipped off her underwear and started kissing me, tearing at my clothes with both hands. We stumbled toward the bed while I struggled to kick my pants off my ankles. This. Is. Happening. OK, sorry. Calm down, that’s as detailed as I’m going to get.”
— He writes {that a} “San Andreas-level seismic shift in my reality” adopted a number of hours later when he left the lodge with Spears and dozens of paparazzi automobiles adopted them.
— He describes the evening earlier than their marriage ceremony, when Spears referred to as her ex Justin Timberlake, searching for closure: “She never really got over him. She might’ve loved me, but there was something there with Justin that she couldn’t let go of.”
— Federline stated seeing Spears ingesting whereas pregnant “tripped the silent alarms in my head.” He later was outraged when he noticed her doing cocaine when the boys had been nonetheless breastfeeding, saying “are you seriously going to go home after this and feed them like you don’t have a body full of drugs?”
— He writes that Preston informed him Spears mercilessly mocked him and as soon as punched him within the face.
— He says the boys started refusing to go to her after they had been 13 and 14, and later informed him tales that “shook me to the core.” “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.”
Spears’ response to Federline’s ebook
Spears responded with a press release on her social media accounts. She stated Federline has engaged in “constant gaslighting.”
“Trust me, those white lies in that book, they are going straight to the bank and I’m the only one who genuinely gets hurt here.” She stated, including that “if you really know me, you won’t pay attention to the tabloids of my mental health and drinking.”
She additionally addressed her relationship along with her sons:
“I have always pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys. Relationships with teenage boys is complex. I have felt demoralized by this situation and have always asked and almost begged for them to be a part of my life. Sadly, they have always witnessed the lack of respect shown by (their) own father for me.”
An legal professional for Spears didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Federline’s life, and ideas about Spears’ life
Federline writes about rising up in Fresno, California, and discovering “my therapy and my purpose” by dance.
He reminisces about his first huge tour, with Pink, and dealing with Aaliyah, Future’s Youngster and Michael Jackson. He particulars wrestling with John Cena within the WWE and showing in a self-mocking Tremendous Bowl industrial.
Federline says Preston and Jayden live on their very own as younger adults, and have each been engaged on making music that makes him proud.
He weighs in on Spears’ dissolved courtroom conservatorship, saying it was essential however damage most people concerned. He stated the followers who fought to free her left an unlucky legacy.
“The Free Britney movement may have started from a good place, but it vilified everyone around her so intensely that now it’s nearly impossible for anyone to step in,” he writes.
He says within the ebook that he wrote it partly as a public plea for her to get extra assist.
“I’ve lost hope that things will ever fully turn around,” he writes, “but I still hope that Britney can find peace.”
