Overview

• Federline writes that on multiple nights his sons awoke to find Spears silently standing at their bedroom doorway holding a knife.
• He says the incidents and household tension left Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden James, 19, afraid to stay at their mother's home after the 2007 split.
• The memoir recounts Spears’ 2007 involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations that preceded a conservatorship lasting about 13 years.
• A spokesperson for Spears denies the account and accuses Federline of profiting, saying her focus is her sons’ wellbeing.
• Federline says he has not spoken with Spears for years and argues that ending the conservatorship put their children at risk; his book, You Thought You Knew, is set for Oct. 21 release.