Singer disputes account in ex-husband’s memoir You Thought You Knew, in which he says she behaved erratically around their sons
Britney Spears has responded to her ex-husband Kevin Federline’s claims in his upcoming memoir about their marriage, calling his depiction of her “extremely hurtful and exhausting”.
In You Thought You Knew, Federline details his two-year marriage with Spears and their divorce in 2007, which was followed by a protracted battle over custody of their two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
In the book, Federline claims he witnessed Spears use cocaine while breastfeeding, and that she sometimes behaved erratically around their children. In an excerpt published by the New York Times, Federline alleged their sons “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. Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
Federline told the New York Times he had not spoken to Spears in years, but said he learned about her alleged behaviour from their two sons.
