Federline memoir excerpts raise concerns for Britney Spears and sons

Kevin Federline, the dancer and ex-husband of pop star Britney Spears, says he is alarmed for the safety and wellbeing of Spears and their two sons in excerpts from his forthcoming memoir, You Thought You Knew, due Oct. 21. In the passages, Federline recounts allegations from his sons that Spears at times stood in their bedroom doorway watching them sleep while holding a knife, and he warns that ending her long-running conservatorship in 2021 may have left her more vulnerable.

Federline, 47, writes that the knife incidents occurred when the boys were teenagers and that the sons, Sean Preston, now 20, and Jayden James, 19, told him they were afraid to return to their mother’s home. He also writes that he has grown increasingly concerned about Spears’s behavior from what he has learned secondhand through co-parenting, and that he fears the situation is “racing toward something irreversible.” “It’s become impossible to pretend everything’s OK,” he writes. “From where I sit, the clock is ticking, and we’re getting close to the 11th hour. Something bad is going to happen if things don’t change, and my biggest fear is that our sons will be left holding the pieces.”