Overview
- Advance excerpts from Federline’s You Thought You Knew allege troubling past incidents, including a claim that Spears was seen watching their sons at night with a knife and used cocaine while breastfeeding, alongside a warning that her situation feels near something “irreversible.”
- Spears publicly rejected the accounts in a post on X, accusing her ex-husband of gaslighting and saying the stories have caused her pain.
- Her spokesperson told People that Federline is trying to profit off her life, pointing to the timing after child-support obligations ceased.
- Federline has said he has not spoken with Spears in years and that much of his narrative comes from their sons and others, as he promotes the book due out on October 21.
- Celebrities such as Nicki Minaj have voiced support for Spears, and reporting to date offers no independent corroboration of the most sensational claims.