Britney Spears’ secret concern about her children revealed after she hits back at ex Kevin Federline’s bombshell knife claim

Britney Spears has hit back after her ex, Kevin Federline, made a series of claims in his upcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, including claims he held a knife while watching their children sleep from their bedroom door.

In a statement obtained by The Daily Mail, a representative for the star criticized Federline for ‘profiting’ off the pop icon; Almost a year after receiving her last child support payment from Federline.

“With the news of Kevin’s account blowup, he and others are once again profiting from it, and unfortunately this happened after Kevin’s alimony ended,” the rep said.

Spears’ sole focus is on her two children (sons Jayden, 18, and Sean Preston, 19) and their “well-being” amid the craziness in the book.

‘All he cares about during this sensational time is his children Sean Preston and Jayden James and their well-being. He detailed his journey in his memoirs, the representative said.

A source also told The Daily Mail that Spears is not afraid of the memoir, which will be published on October 21, because she has already laid out her full story in 2023’s tell-all The Woman In Me and will refrain from publicly responding to the memoir in order to maintain “some sort of relationship” with her children.

A representative for the Stronger singer accused Federline of trying to profit from his relationship with Spears, nearly a year after he made his last child support payment to her.

In Federline’s new memoir, Spears, who was photographed with fake knives in 2023, is accused of watching her sons sleep while holding a knife in her hand

The source told The Daily Mail: “Britney isn’t the least bit afraid of what’s revealed in Kevin’s book because everything that can be said about Britney has been said, her real fans will be on her side, she’s already been able to tell the story in her book.”

‘Absolutely nothing will surprise him, and if everything hasn’t already been told to him in the book, his people will read it and give him all the details.

‘I’m just letting you know, but once he gets out in the sun he’ll forget about it very quickly. Nothing will happen to knock it overboard.’

The source continued: ‘Now granted, Britney is doing her own thing and anything can happen to her and she can tweet something on there late one night.

‘But it’s different because she doesn’t want to get into that situation because of her kids and she still wants some sort of relationship with them and she thinks if she responds to anything Kevin says in the book there could be consequences and she doesn’t want that to happen.’

For now, he plans to shrug off her claims once his memoir comes out.

‘So right now he’s just going to let things take their natural course, get his book out and go about his day. Those close to him also said this was the best route to take.’

Federline’s allegations made headlines on Tuesday New York Times published excerpts from the book.

Federline’s allegations made headlines Tuesday after the New York Times published excerpts from the book

Federline will release What I Thought You Knew on October 21; image of audiobook cover

He claimed that his children woke up to see their mother holding a knife while watching her sleep at their bedroom door.

Federline claims that her sons no longer wanted to visit their mother at home during their teenage years, and one of the reasons for this was fear.

‘Sometimes at night they would wake up to find him standing quietly in the doorway, watching them sleep – ‘Oh, are you awake?’ “With a knife in his hand,” Federline wrote in the quote obtained by The Times. ‘Then he would turn around and walk away without explanation.’

Federline also wrote that she became increasingly concerned about her ex-girlfriend starting to act erratically.

In the book, Federline made clear his fear that Spears was hurtling toward an “irreversible” direction: “The truth is, this situation with Britney feels like it’s hurtling toward something irreversible,” he said.

“It’s become impossible to pretend everything is okay,” Federline adds. ‘From where I sit, the clock is ticking and we are approaching the 11th hour. If things don’t change something bad will happen and my biggest fear is that our sons will keep the pieces.’

Spears’ sole focus is on her two children (sons Jayden, 18, and Sean Preston, 19) and their “well-being” amid the frenzy surrounding the book.

Federline’s memoir also reflects on the night in 2008 when Spears was admitted to the psychiatric ward of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and placed on 5,150 psychiatric hold after she refused to give up custody of their son to Federline.

Federline called “It was one of the hardest nights of my life,” he said, as he watched his partner in the middle of this ordeal.

‘I felt bad about what he went through. This was someone I loved. Someone I’ve built a life with. “Mother of my children,” she wrote.

The event took place just before Spears was appointed to a conservatorship, which ended after 13 years with the support of the Free Britney movement.

But Federline thinks the move has unintended consequences for the pop star’s current situation.

While she says her support for ending the deal probably “started from a good place,” she notes that it may have scared professionals away from helping her ex after seeing the backlash her inner circle received from Free Britney followers.

Spears with her sons in 2013, six years after her divorce from their father was finalized

Spears married the backup dancer in 2004 after a whirlwind romance, and they welcomed two children together, but the marriage broke up just a few years later.

‘Everyone who put so much effort into this,’ he wrote, ‘must now put the same energy into the ‘Save Britney’ movement. Because this isn’t about freedom anymore. ‘This is about survival.’

Federline admitted to The Times that he did not speak to Spears about what she wrote.

“I was never, never, not once against Britney,” he told the publication. ‘I just tried to help my sons have an incredible relationship with their mother. And it’s so hard because when I really think about what’s going on, my kids don’t know the woman I married. And I spent twenty years trying to fill that gap.’

In her memoir, Spears said she “never had a drinking problem” or desire to take hard drugs, but admitted to taking Adderall, an ADHD medication. She also opened up about struggling with postpartum depression during the contentious split and custody battle.

“Kevin tried to convince everyone that I was completely out of control,” Spears wrote. ‘He started saying I shouldn’t have any more children.’

The Daily Mail has contacted Spears’ representatives for comment on Federline’s allegations but has not yet received a response. A spokesman for the pop star declined to comment to The Times.

Federline’s knife claim is reminiscent of one made by Spears’ sister Jamie in her 2022 memoir Things I Never Said, in which she claimed her terrified sibling locked them in a room with a knife; The Lucky singer dismissed the claim as “crazy lies.”

Federline said in a press release that her memoir will reveal ‘extremely intimate and transparent’ details about their ‘highly publicized marriage’; pictured 2004

After a whirlwind romance, Spears married her backup dancer in 2004 and they had two children.

But the marriage fell apart after just two years, when Federline filed for divorce in 2006. They both became legally single the following year, and Federline gained full custody of their children after 5150 was hospitalized.

It is said that Spears has had a tense relationship with her children in recent years, and that the children even moved to Hawaii with their father in August 2023.

However, a source told The Daily Mail that the children surprised their mother with a visit last Christmas. She’s gotten closer to Jayden lately.

In a press release about the book, scheduled for release on October 21, Federline said the memoir will reveal “extremely intimate and transparent” details about their “highly publicized marriage.”

‘I achieved my biggest dreams, dealt with crushing heartbreak, and endured constant ridicule, all while being the father my children needed while experiencing non-stop emotional turmoil,’ the former backup dancer detailed.

The memoir drew the ire of Spears’ ex-husband, Sam Asghari, whom she married and divorced in recent years.

“Well, he was a professional dad, so he would have been a great dad…it would have been the first book that told you how to be a professional dad,” Sam told TMZ, referring to the child support payments Federline received from Spears.