{"id":2097828,"date":"2025-10-17T14:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2097828"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:45:25","slug":"kevin-federline-says-his-sons-with-britney-spears-are-the-reason-for-his-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kevin-federline-says-his-sons-with-britney-spears-are-the-reason-for-his-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Federline says his sons with Britney Spears are the reason for his new memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FILE – Britney Spears, holding her dog Bit Bit, and her husband, Kevin Federline, appear at The 2004 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Dec. 8, 2004.<\/p>\n

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FILE – Britney Spears, right, and her husband Kevin Federline arrive for a post Grammy party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 8, 2006.<\/p>\n

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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Kevin Federline says concern for his two sons with Britney Spears long kept him from telling his story, and those same concerns are the reason he’s telling it now that they’re men.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a memoir to be released Tuesday, \u201cYou Thought You Knew,\u201d Federline documents his difficult years as husband, ex-husband, and co-parent with Spears, who wrote her own memoir in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Federline’s includes some salacious stories and some potentially disturbing details about her behavior that have already made headlines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI want my children to be able to move forward in their lives and know that the actual truth of everything is out there,\u201d Federline, 47, told The Associated Press in a Zoom interview, backed by palm trees in Hawaii, where he now lives with wife Victoria Prince and their two daughters. \u201cThat\u2019s a very, very big part of this for me. And it\u2019s really important that I share my story, so they don\u2019t have to.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He and Spears’ son Preston is now 20 and his brother Jayden is 19. They have little relationship with their mother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Federline was a 26-year-old backup dancer for other major pop acts when he coupled with Spears in 2004. Their courtship, two-year marriage and divorce took them through one of the most intense celebrity media frenzies in modern history. Federline was ruthlessly roasted as a loser hanger-on, especially after he released his own deeply mocked hip-hop album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI wasn\u2019t just famous \u2014 I was infamous,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He told the AP he long considered writing the book, but recently got serious about it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI picked it up and put it down quite a lot over probably a five-year period,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that it\u2019s a very good description of me, who I am, the father I\u2019ve become, the husband I am, the ex-husband I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Key revelations from Kevin Federline about Britney Spears <\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\u2014 Federline describes the night he and Spears first connected at a Hollywood nightclub, and how they hooked up hours later in a hotel bungalow: \u201cBritney 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\u2019s as detailed as I\u2019m going to get.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014 He writes that a \u201cSan Andreas-level seismic shift in my reality\u201d followed a few hours later when he left the hotel with Spears and dozens of paparazzi cars followed them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014 He describes the night before their wedding, when Spears called her ex Justin Timberlake, seeking closure: \u201cShe never really got over him. She might\u2019ve loved me, but there was something there with Justin that she couldn\u2019t let go of.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014 Federline said seeing Spears drinking while pregnant \u201ctripped the silent alarms in my head.\u201d He later was outraged when he saw her doing cocaine when the boys were still breastfeeding, saying \u201care you seriously going to go home after this and feed them like you don\u2019t have a body full of drugs?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014 He writes that Preston told him Spears mercilessly mocked him and once punched him in the face.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2014 He says the boys began refusing to visit her when they were 13 and 14, and later told him stories that \u201cshook me to the core.\u201d \u201cThey would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep \u2014 \u2018Oh, you\u2019re awake?\u2019 \u2014 with a knife in her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n Spears responded<\/a> with a statement on her social media accounts. She said Federline has engaged in \u201cconstant gaslighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cTrust 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.\u201d She said, adding that \u201cif you really know me, you won’t pay attention to the tabloids of my mental health and drinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She also addressed her relationship with her sons:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An attorney for Spears did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Federline writes about growing up in Fresno, California, and finding \u201cmy therapy and my purpose\u201d through dance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He reminisces about his first big tour, with Pink, and working with Aaliyah, Destiny’s Child and Michael Jackson. He details wrestling with John Cena in the WWE and appearing in a self-mocking Super Bowl commercial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Federline says Preston and Jayden are living on their own as young adults, and have both been working on making music that makes him proud.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He weighs in on Spears’ dissolved court conservatorship, saying it was necessary but hurt most of the people involved. He said the fans who fought to free her left an unfortunate legacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Free Britney movement may have started from a good place, but it vilified everyone around her so intensely that now it\u2019s nearly impossible for anyone to step in,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He says in the book that he wrote it in part as a public plea for her to get more help.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI’ve lost hope that things will ever fully turn around,\u201d he writes, \u201cbut I still hope that Britney can find peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n