Overview

• Excerpts from Federline’s forthcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, were reported by the New York Times on Oct. 14–15.
• Federline writes that the situation with Spears feels like it is racing toward something irreversible and that it is no longer possible to pretend all is well.
• He warns that something terrible will happen if nothing changes and says his greatest fear is their sons being left to pick up the pieces.
• He alleges the boys told him they occasionally awoke to find Spears silently standing in the doorway watching them sleep with a knife in her hand.
• Spears has not publicly responded and a representative declined to comment, while friends quoted by the Daily Mail say she is deeply worried about how the book reflects on her as a mother.