Overview

• Excerpts from You Thought You Knew detail allegations about Spears’s past drug use, threatening behavior and incidents involving their sons, all presented as Federline’s account.
• Among the claims, Federline describes a 2006 scene of cocaine use followed by a warning not to breastfeed, children encountering their mother holding a knife, a son saying he was punched, and hair damage from bleaching.
• Spears publicly rejected the claims on social media, calling them extremely hurtful “white lies,” describing her ex-husband’s behavior as abusive, and lamenting strained relationships with her teenage sons.
• Federline defended publishing the memoir in interviews, saying he wants Spears to get help and that his purpose is to sound the alarm and protect the children rather than humiliate her.
• The memoir is set for Oct. 21 publication with preorders available across major retailers and audio platforms, as a representative quoted by Page Six questioned his financial motives after child support ended.