Britney Spears’ first husband, Jason Alexander, publicly condemned Kevin Federline’s upcoming tell-all memoir.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, October 14, Alexander, who was married to Spears, 43, for 55 hours in January 2004, slammed the singer’s second husband Federline, 47, in a lengthy post accompanied by a mocking meme.
“Kevin, You Don’t Get to Rewrite the Story Without Owning Your Role,” Alexander, 43, began. “Surprise, surprise, it leans heavy on painting Britney in a bad light. As someone who’s known Britney most of her life — not just as her first husband, but as a friend who’s seen what she’s gone through — I can’t stay silent. Kevin, you don’t get to tell half the story. Not when you were in the middle of it.”
Alexander, a childhood friend whom Spears married while under the influence in Las Vegas before the marriage was quickly annulled, went on to criticize Federline for portraying himself as an “innocent bystander” in his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, while witnessing Spears’ “struggles.”
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Alexander wrote, “That’s not what went down. You were her husband. You were supposed to be her protector. Instead, you were partying right alongside her — the drugs, the alcohol, the chaos … you were there for all of it. You weren’t trying to pull her out — you were feeding off it.”
You Thought You Knew is scheduled for release on Tuesday, October 21, with Us Weekly confirming via an exclusive source last month that Federline, who was married to Spears from 2004 to 2007, will reveal “his side of the story in depth … straight from the horse’s mouth.”
In a statement shared with Us on Tuesday by a representative for Spears, the pop star’s camp claimed that Federline’s book is an attempt to profit off her. “With news from Kevin’s book breaking, once again he and others are profiting off her, and sadly it comes after child support has ended with Kevin,” the statement read. “All she cares about are her kids, Sean Preston and Jayden James, and their well-being during this sensationalism. (Federline and Spears share sons Sean Preston, 20, and Jayden, 19.)
Alexander echoed the sentiment via his Instagram post, directing further comments directly to Federline. “You didn’t walk away empty-handed either. You walked away with full custody, child support, and a lifestyle funded by the same woman you now want to distance yourself from,” the post read. “Let’s be honest — you became a millionaire off her pain. And now, you want to act like the mature one, like the man who held it all together? No. That’s not growth, that’s revision.”
Alexander then urged Federline to “tell the truth” about his part in the pair’s almost-three year marriage. “The nights you partied. The times you turned your back. The ways you used the media and the court system to your advantage. You played the game, Kevin. You just want to forget that now because it doesn’t fit the image you’re trying to sell.”
He then concluded the post by defending Spears, whom he said is a victim of “men trying to profit from her.”
Alexander wrote before signing off with his full name, “Britney has been through enough. You want to tell your side? Fine. But don’t pretend you were the victim or the hero. Be real. Be accountable. Because those of us who were really there — who actually cared about her, not the fame — we remember how it really went down. And we’re not buying the rewrite.”
Federline’s memoir includes allegations of alleged concerning behavior exhibited by Spears while she was at home with the former couple’s children. In an excerpt published by the New York Times on Tuesday, Federline claimed, “They would awaken sometimes at night to find her standing silently in the doorway, watching them sleep — ‘Oh, you’re awake?’ — with a knife in her hand. Then she’d turn around and pad off without explanation.”
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Federline addressed the intentions behind his memoir during an interview with Entertainment Tonight, published on Tuesday, when asked whether the book is a result of Spears’ child support payments ending.
“You want to go there right away? Alright. I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t want this book to be successful. I wish I’ll sell a million books or more, or whatever,” he told the outlet. “Money is not at the root of this story, [and] it never has been.”
