NEED TO KNOW
- Kevin Federline recollects how “issues escalated” amid ex-wife Britney Spears’ head-shaving incident
- In his forthcoming memoir You Thought You Knew, the actor and dancer particulars the occasions main as much as the 2007 incident
- You Thought You Knew is out Tuesday, Oct. 21
Kevin Federline recollects how “issues escalated” amid ex-wife Britney Spears’ head-shaving incident.
In his forthcoming memoir You Thought You Knew (out Oct. 21) the actor and dancer recounts the alleged occasions main as much as the 2007 incident that landed the pop star — to whom he was married from 2004 to 2007 — within the tabloids.
Federline, 47, alleges that amid their divorce proceedings, Spears had checked herself out of a rehab facility and appeared on the gate of his dwelling, ringing the bell and shouting nonsensical issues.
He claims that the one phrases he understood clearly had been “LET. ME. IN.” Quickly, Spears allegedly started “climbing the entrance gate,” Federline writes.
On the time, Federline allegedly stayed with their sons Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden James, now 19, to take care of a way of calm.
“I could not stand to see her like this,” he writes.
Federline claims safety would not let her in as a result of she was allegedly “in no situation to be round our youngsters.”
The truth star writes that he did not need to “scare” his youngsters by having her enter whereas she was “performing so bizarrely.”
Federline claims that is when Spears went to the hair salon, the place the head-shaving incident befell.
He writes that the “Poisonous” hitmaker “took issues into her personal arms” and shaved her head when a stylist allegedly refused to chop her hair. Federline claims she headed to a fuel station subsequent, the place “issues escalated” and Spears took an umbrella and swung it at paparazzi.
After seeing the photographs within the tabloids, Federline writes that he realized what he was “coping with.”
On Tuesday, Oct. 14 a rep for Spears shared a assertion with ipromiseyoumedia responding to Federline’s memoir and the allegations in it.
“With information from Kevin’s e book breaking, as soon as once more he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after baby help has ended with Kevin,” it stated.
The assertion continued: “All she cares about are her youngsters, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir.”
Spears shared a prolonged publish through X simply someday later, saying she’s “had sufficient” of Federline, “always gaslighting” her.
She additionally defended her relationship with their sons.
“I’ve all the time pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys,” Spears wrote. “Relationships with teenage boys is complicated.”
She added that she has “felt demoralized by this case” and “have all the time requested and virtually begged for them to be part of my life.”
Of her sons, Spears wrote, “Sadly, they’ve all the time witnessed the dearth of respect proven by [their] personal father for me. They should take duty for themselves. With one son solely seeing me for 45 min up to now 5 years and the opposite with solely 4 visits up to now 5 years. I’ve satisfaction too. Any further I’ll allow them to know when I’m accessible.”
The “Gimme Extra” artist then shifted her focus again to Federline. “Belief me, these white lies in that e book, they’re going straight to the financial institution and I’m the one one who genuinely will get harm right here,” she wrote.
Spears then wrote that she “will all the time love” her sons.
“In case you actually know me, you received’t take note of the tabloids of my psychological well being and consuming. I’m really a fairly clever lady who has been attempting to dwell a sacred and personal life the previous 5 years. I converse on this as a result of I’ve had sufficient and any actual lady would do the identical,” she added.
You Thought You Knew is out Oct. 21.
