Overview
- New excerpts and interviews ahead of Kevin Federline’s You Thought You Knew, out Oct. 21, detail allegations about Britney Spears’ behavior during their marriage and parenting years.
- Federline alleges incidents including cocaine use while breastfeeding, drinking while on medication and pregnant, and standing outside their sons’ room holding a knife, all of which Spears has publicly denied.
- Additional claims include that Spears punched a son, forced a child to bathe with her, bleached the boys’ hair causing scalp burns, gave shellfish despite an allergy, and told a son she wished he, his brother and Federline were “dead.”
- Spears has called the accounts “gaslighting,” said he is “profiting off my pain,” and noted on X that contact with her now‑adult sons has been limited in recent years.
- Federline told media his sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, “understand and approve” of his memoir and interviews, while Spears’ representative highlighted that child support has ended and no independent corroboration from the sons has been reported.