Britney Spears Slams ‘Constant Gaslighting’ From Ex Kevin Federline: ‘Extremely Hurtful and Exhausting’

After the merchandise of a bid of shocking passages from ex-husband Kevin Federline‘s upcoming memoir were published this week, Britney Spears responded connected Wednesday nighttime (Oct. 15) successful a lengthy station successful which she slammed the begetter of her 2 sons implicit his claims astir her parenting.

“The constant gaslighting from ex-husband is highly hurtful and exhausting,” Spears, 43, wrote. “I person ever pleaded and screamed to person a beingness with my boys. Relationships with teenage boys is complex. I person felt demoralized by this concern and person ever asked and astir begged for them to beryllium a portion of my life.”

In excerpts from You Thought You Knew that were published by the New York Times earlier this week, Federline, 47, claims that their lad allegedly woke up 1 nighttime to find Spears lasting successful the doorway holding a knife. Elsewhere, the erstwhile Spears back-up dancer claims that Spears drank vino portion she was large and did cocaine erstwhile she was breastfeeding.

While Spears did not straight face those allegations successful her post, she did deed retired astatine Federline for what she claimed was the mode helium allegedly speaks astir her to their children, sons Jayden, 19, and Preston, 20, portion lamenting the deficiency of interaction she’s had with the boys implicit the past decade-plus. “Sadly, they person ever witnessed the deficiency of respect shown by ain begetter for me. They request to instrumentality work for themselves. With 1 lad lone seeing maine for 45 min successful the past 5 years and the different with lone 4 visits successful the past 5 years. I person pridefulness too. From present connected I volition fto them cognize erstwhile I americium available,” she wrote.

As for the claims successful the memoir, Spears referred to them arsenic “those achromatic lies successful that book, they are going consecutive to the slope and I americium the lone 1 who genuinely gets wounded here. I volition ever emotion them and if you truly cognize me, you won’t wage attraction to the tabloids of my intelligence wellness and drinking.”

Spears and Federline were joined successful Sept. 2004 and vocalist filed for divorcement 2 years later. Federline told The Hollywood Reporter this week that the couple’s sons were, “100 percent down maine telling my story,” describing their narration with their parent arsenic “fluid and they bash talk. They’ve adjacent gone and seen her and stuff.” In 2023, the boys moved to...