What does Kevin Federline’s upcoming e-book say about Britney Spears?

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The ex-husband of pop star Britney Spears provides new particulars on the pair's tense relationship in his new memoir You Thought You Knew.

Kevin Federline, her one-time backing dancer, presents an image of Spears's allegedly erratic behaviour as a spouse and mom, and says he continues to have issues for her wellbeing.

Spears has spoken out towards the e-book, which might be printed on Tuesday, and accuses Federline of making an attempt to revenue from his affiliation along with her.

What does the e-book say about Spears?

Federline makes a lot of allegations towards Spears, within the memoir shared with the BBC forward of the e-book's launch by writer Listenin.

He accuses Spears of unhealthy behaviour as a mom, together with ingesting when she was pregnant and taking cocaine whereas her two sons had been nonetheless breastfeeding. Spears has beforehand denied having substance abuse points.

After they had been youngsters, the couple's sons had been frightened of Spears, Federline additionally alleges. "They'd awaken typically at night time to search out her standing silently within the doorway, watching them sleep - 'Oh, you are awake?' - with a knife in her hand," he writes. "Then she'd flip round and pad off with out rationalization."

Federline additionally expresses his concern for his estranged ex-wife, writing: "The reality is, this case with Britney feels prefer it's racing towards one thing irreversible. From the place I sit, the clock is ticking, and we're getting near the eleventh hour."

He writes that he was supportive of a conservatorship, below which many facets of Spears's life had been managed by others for years. Of the Free Britney motion, Federline writes that he might "by no means totally get behind it".

What is the historical past of their relationship?

The pair obtained collectively in the summertime of 2004, after Spears's business peak.

They married a couple of months later and shortly welcomed their two sons: Preston, now 20, and Jayden, now 19.

Spears filed for divorce in 2006 and the divorce was finalised in 2007.

The couple fought publicly over custody of their sons and finally Federline was given sole custody of the boys.

Within the wake of Federline getting full custody, Spears was seen behaving in a manner that Federline characterises in his e-book as erratic.

She made headlines with incidents like shaving her head and hitting a photographer's automobile with an umbrella.

These public incidents raised concern about her psychological welfare, and after she was taken to hospital twice, a short lived conservatorship was established in 2008 and made everlasting later that yr.

Spears remained below that controversial association till 2021, below which her father and others managed her funds and facets of her private life. She didn't regain custody of her youngsters till after it was lifted.

What has Spears stated?

Spears has accused Federline of attacking her throughout his current press appearances to advertise the e-book. She described the contents of the memoir as "extraordinarily hurtful and exhausting", however recommended the work would promote higher than her personal memoir had completed.

In that e-book, The Girl in Me, Spears accused her ex-husband of making an attempt to "persuade everybody I used to be fully uncontrolled".

Spears has additionally defended her relationship along with her sons. "I've all the time pleaded and screamed to have a life with my boys," she wrote on social media on 15 October, including that "relationships with teenage boys is advanced".

In an announcement to US media, a Spears spokesperson added: "With information from Kevin's e-book breaking, as soon as once more he and others are profiting off her and sadly it comes after baby assist has ended with Kevin. All she cares about are her youngsters, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being throughout this sensationalism. She detailed her journey in her memoir."

The BBC has contacted Federline's lawyer for touch upon Spears's counter-accusations.

Why is that this occurring now?

Whereas the pair dominated headlines throughout their relationship and subsequent divorce, Federline specifically has largely remained out of the limelight in recent times. And just lately, the highlight on Spears has largely been over her social media postings.

Federline has stated he thought of writing a e-book for a few years however wished to attend till his youngsters had been older to finish it.

"I picked it up and put it down quite a bit over in all probability a five-year interval," he instructed the Related Press. "I believe that it is an excellent description of me, who I'm, the daddy I've turn out to be, the husband I'm, the ex-husband I'm."

He additionally instructed AP: "I would like my youngsters to have the ability to transfer ahead of their lives and know that the precise reality of all the pieces is on the market."